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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 05, 2024
Ubuntu 24.04 Will Use Linux Kernel 6.8 — If All Goes to Plan!
=> https://news.tuxmachines.org/i/2024/02/digitale-welt.thumbnail.jpg ↺ Digital World
=> https://rknight.me/blog/tech-is-annoying-me-this-week/ ↺ Tech is Annoying Me This Week
Open source projects that say they’re “Built with Docker” with no other information about the stack meaning I have to go hunting in the code base just to find out how it’s actually built and if it’s something I’d be willing to maintain/fix if I decide to use it. This is like saying my house is “built with foundations”.
=> https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240204112905 ↺ Soft updates (softdep) support removed from -current
Support for soft updates (softdep), disabled since before the 7.4 release [see earlier report], has been removed from -current by Bob Beck (beck@): [...]
=> https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/05/sbf_off_the_hook_for/ ↺ It was other crims what did it: SBF off hook for FTX hack • The Register
=> https://siliconangle.com/2024/02/04/scammers-used-deepfake-cfo-trick-company-employee-sending-25m/ ↺ Scammers used deepfake CFO on video call to trick company employee into sending them $25M
According to CNN, the victim was sent an email that claimed to be from the company’s CFO. The employee initially suspected the message was a phishing email, as it asked for a large amount of money to be transferred into an offshore account. However, the scammers managed to erase any doubts by inviting the employee to attend a video call, where the supposed CFO and several other colleagues he recognized were in attendance.
Believing all of the participants on the call to be real, the employee agreed to send more than $200 million Hong Kong dollars (about $25.6 million) to a specified account, senior superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching said in a statement. “(In the) multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone [he saw] was fake,” Chan told RTHK, the city’s public broadcaster.
=> https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/ ↺ Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.
The elaborate scam saw the worker duped into attending a video call with what he thought were several other members of staff, but all of whom were in fact deepfake recreations, Hong Kong police said at a briefing on Friday.