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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 12, 2024

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 6.0, .NET 8.0, and openssl), Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (firefox), Mageia (php, quictls, and vim), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8, containernetworking-plugins, firefox, podman, skopeo, and tomcat), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (apache-commons-io, kernel, and xen), and Ubuntu (golang-1.17, libgsf, and linux-aws-6.8, linux-oracle-6.8).

Fidelity Investments suffers data breach affecting nearly 80,000 customers

Financial service company Fidelity Investments has suffered a data breach with the details of nearly 80,000 customers stolen. The data breach was disclosed in an Oct. 9 filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, which states that 77,099 persons were affected by the breach.

Internet Archive hit with DDoS attacks and hacked with 31 million accounts hit

A sad day for the internet, as it has been confirmed that the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) that hosts a massive amount of historical data has been hit by DDoS attacks, and unfortunately they've had a breach.