Regular Users Can Now Remove Password From Their Microsoft Account
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Microsoft on Wednesday informed owners of consumer accounts that they can now go completely passwordless and rely on other, more secure authentication methods.
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Microsoft September Patch Tuesday: 66 vulnerabilities, 2 zero-days
https://techgenix.com/microsoft-september-patch-tuesday/

Summer is ending, but the vulnerabilities continue hot and heavy. The Microsoft September patch update has fixes for scores of flaws, several critical.
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An open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange | Opensource.com
https://opensource.com/article/21/9/open-source-groupware-grommunio

Solus Team Plans to Exit GTK and Adopt Enlightenment Desktop (EFL)
https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/09/solus-exit-gtk/

Nitrux 1.6.1 Is Here as One of the First Distros to Ship with Linux 5.14 as Default Kernel - 9to5Linux
https://9to5linux.com/nitrux-1-6-1-is-here-as-one-of-the-first-distros-to-ship-with-linux-5-14-as-default-kernel

Monitor your Java on Linux with jconsole | Opensource.com
https://opensource.com/article/21/10/monitor-java-linux-jconsole

Red Hat / Fedora To Focus On Driving New Linux Video Improvements Around PipeWire - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PipeWire-Better-Video-2021

Latest Steam Client Update Brings PipeWire Desktop Capture on Linux, Reduces Vulkan Pre-Caching Sizes - 9to5Linux
https://9to5linux.com/latest-steam-client-update-brings-pipewire-desktop-capture-on-linux-reduces-vulkan-pre-caching-sizes

Flatpak 1.12 Released - Better Sub-Sandbox Handling To Benefit Steam - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Flatpak-1.12-Released

8 Best KDE Based Linux Distributions
https://itsfoss.com/best-kde-distributions/

Twitch Struggles With Hackers and Hate Raid Bots
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Twitch, Amazon's popular live video streaming platform, on Thursday said hackers took advantage of a mistake in a server configuration tweak to steal data.
A massive trove of confidential Twitch data dumped on the internet included records showing top game play streamers took in millions of dollars during the past year.
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CIA Creates Working Group on China as Threats Keep Rising
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The CIA said Thursday it will create a top-level working group on China as part of a broad U.S. government effort focused on countering Beijing’s influence.
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Apache Releases Another Patch for Actively Exploited HTTP Server Zero-Day
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The Apache HTTP Server Project on Thursday announced the release of another update in response to a recently discovered zero-day vulnerability (https://www.securityweek.com/over-100000-apache-http-servers-affected-actively-exploited-zero-day-flaw)after determining that the initial fix was incomplete.
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Creating an effective incident response plan
https://techgenix.com/creating-an-incident-response-plan/

When you fail to plan, you plan to fail, so it’s best to get your incident response plan sorted out and put into action as soon as possible.
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Lots and Lots of Bots: Looking at Botnet Activity in 2021
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A botnet today can be used as a foundation for bad actors to carry out other attacks later
read more (https://www.securityweek.com/lots-and-lots-bots-looking-botnet-activity-2021)

What IT can learn from the Facebook outage
https://techgenix.com/it-can-learn-from-the-facebook-outage/

The massive six-hour Facebook outage affected billions of users worldwide. What can those of us working in IT learn from this?
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FontOnLake Linux Malware Used in Targeted Attacks
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A previously unknown, modular malware family that targets Linux systems has been used in targeted attacks to collect credentials and gain access to victim systems, ESET reported on Thursday.
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Google Patches Four Severe Vulnerabilities in Chrome
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Google this week announced the release of an updated Chrome version for Windows, Mac and Linux, to address a total of four high-severity vulnerabilities in the browser.
Tracked as CVE-2021-37977, the most severe of these security holes could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on a target system.
read more (https://www.securityweek.com/google-patches-four-severe-vulnerabilities-chrome)

Linux To No Longer Enable AMD SME Usage By Default Due To Problems With Some Hardware - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-SME-No-Default-Use