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On August 5, 2021 at 3:35:36 AM UTC, https://slashdot.org/ was accessible when tested on AS264731 in Venezuela.

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				An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: <i>Cybersecurity at eight federal agencies is so poor that <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/the-state-department-and-3-other-us-agencies-earn-a-d-for-cybersecurity/">four of them earned grades of D</a>, three got Cs, and only one received a B in a report issued Tuesday by a US Senate Committee. "It is clear that the data entrusted to these eight key agencies remains at risk," the <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Federal%20Cybersecurity%20-%20America's%20Data%20Still%20at%20Risk%20(FINAL).pdf">47-page report</a> stated. "As hackers, both state-sponsored and otherwise, become increasingly sophisticated and persistent, Congress and the executive branch cannot continue to allow PII and national security secrets to remain vulnerable."
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The report, issued by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, comes two years after a separate report found systemic failures by the same eight federal agencies in complying with federal cybersecurity standards. The <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019-06-25%20PSI%20Staff%20Report%20-%20Federal%20Cybersecurity%20Updated.pdf">earlier report</a> (PDF) found that during the decade spanning 2008 to 2018, the agencies failed to properly protect personally identifiable information, maintain a list of all hardware and software used on agency networks, and install vendor-supplied security patches in a timely manner. The 2019 report also highlighted that the agencies were operating legacy systems that were costly to maintain and hard to secure. All eight agencies -- including the Social Security Administration and the Departments of Homeland Security, State, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Education -- failed to protect sensitive information they stored or maintained.
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Tuesday's report, titled Federal Cybersecurity: America's Data Still at Risk, analyzed security practices by the same agencies for 2020. It found that only one agency had earned a grade of B for its cybersecurity practices last year. "What this report finds is stark," the authors wrote. "Inspectors general identified many of the same issues that have plagued Federal agencies for more than a decade. Seven agencies made minimal improvements, and only DHS managed to employ an effective cybersecurity regime for 2020. As such, this report finds that these seven Federal agencies still have not met the basic cybersecurity standards necessary to protect America's sensitive data." State Department systems, the auditors found, frequently operated without the required authorizations, ran software (including Microsoft Windows) that was no longer supported, and failed to install security patches in a timely manner. The department's user management system came under particular criticism because officials couldn't provide documentation of user access agreements for 60 percent of sample employees that had access to the department's classified network.</i> "This network contains data which if disclosed to an unauthorized person could cause 'grave damage' to national security," the auditors write. "Perhaps more troubling, State failed to shut off thousands of accounts after extended periods of inactivity on both its classified and sensitive but unclassified networks. According to the Inspector General, some accounts remained active as long as 152 days after employees quit, retired, or were fired. Former employees or hackers could use those unexpired credentials to gain access to State's sensitive and classified information, while appearing to be an authorized user. The Inspector General warned that without resolving issues in this category, 'the risk of unauthorized access is significantly increased.'"
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				Zack Budryk writes via The Hill: <i> The Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act, sponsored by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), would require between 25 to 30 of the U.S. corporations responsible for the most greenhouse gas pollution to pay $300 billion into a fund over 10 years. The legislation would <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/566345-senate-democrats-to-introduce-measure-taxing-major-polluters">require companies to pay into the fund if they were responsible for at least .05 percent of global carbon dioxide and methane emissions</a> between 2000 and 2019 based on data from the Treasury Department and Environmental Protection Agency. In a document shared with The Hill, Van Hollen's office estimated major companies such as Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron would be taxed $5 billion to $6 billion annually under the bill. The Democratic senator pointed to other policies that could accompany the measure, such as carbon pricing and a clean-energy standard.
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The exact uses of the money in the fund have not yet been determined, Van Hollen said, adding there would be a public comment period. Possible uses include building more climate-resilient infrastructure, particularly in disadvantaged communities and communities of color. [...] After years of opposition, major institutions and trade groups like the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have come out in favor of a tax on carbon emissions in recent months. However, Van Hollen's proposal would go further than that, specifically targeting major players like Exxon Mobil and Chevron. </i> <b>Further reading:</b> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/climate/tax-polluting-companies-climate.html">Democrats Seek $500 Billion in Climate Damages From Big Polluting Companies</a> (The New York Times)<br>
		 	
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				The U.S. government regularly holds auctions for its stockpile of bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and other cryptocurrencies it seizes and then holds in crypto wallets. "In fiscal year 2019, we had about $700,000 worth of crypto seizures. In 2020, it was up to $137 million. And so far in 2021, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/irs-has-seized-1point2-billion-worth-of-cryptocurrency-this-year-.html">we're at $1.2 billion</a>," said Jarod Koopman, director of the IRS' cybercrime unit. CNBC reports: <i> As cybercrime picks up -- and the haul of digital tokens along with it -- government crypto coffers are expected to swell even further. Interviews with current and former federal agents and prosecutors suggest the U.S. has no plans to step back from its side hustle as a crypto broker. The crypto seizure and sale operation is growing so fast that the government just enlisted the help of the private sector to manage the storage and sales of its hoard of crypto tokens.
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Once a case is closed and the crypto has been exchanged for fiat currency, the feds then divvy the spoils. The proceeds of the sale are typically deposited into one of two funds: The Treasury Forfeiture Fund or the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund. "The underlying investigative agency determines which fund the money goes to," said [Sharon Cohen Levin, who worked on the first Silk Road prosecution and spent 20 years as chief of the money laundering and asset forfeiture unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York]. Koopman said the crypto traced and seized by his team accounts for roughly 60% to 70% of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund, making it the largest individual contributor.
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				An anonymous reader quotes a report from It's FOSS, written by Ankush Das: <i>Mozilla's Firefox is the only popular alternative to Chromium-based browsers. It has been the default choice for Linux users and privacy-conscious users across every platform. However, even with all benefits as one of the best web browsers around, it is losing its grip for the past few years. I came across a Reddit thread by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nixcraft/">u/nixcraft</a>, which highlighted more details on the decline in the userbase of Firefox since 2018. And surprisingly, the original source for this information is <a href="https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity">Firefox's Public Data Report</a>.
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As per the official stats, the reported number of active (monthly) users was about 244 million at the end of 2018. And, it seems to have declined to 198 million at the end of Q2 2021. So, that <a href="https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-decline/">makes it a whopping ~46 million decline in the userbase</a>. Considering 2021 is the year when privacy-focused tools saw a big boost in their userbase, Mozilla's Firefox is looking at a constant decline. Especially when Firefox manages to introduce some industry-first privacy practices. Quite the irony, eh?</i> Just for fun, here's a timeline of our stories reporting on Firefox's download milestones from the mid-2000s:
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September 19, 2004: <a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/04/09/19/137224/1-million-firefoxes-in-4-days">1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days</a> <br>
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April 26, 2005: <a href="https://slashdot.org/story/05/04/26/203211/firefox-nears-50-million-downloads">Firefox nears 50 Million Downloads</a> <br>
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				Ron Amadeo writing via Ars Technica: <i> Who remembers the sudden and dramatic death of Google+? Google's Facebook competitor and "social backbone" was effectively dead inside the company around 2014, but Google let the failed service hang around for years in maintenance mode while the company spun off standalone products. In 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google+ had <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/10/08/1710208/google-exposed-private-data-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-google-users-and-then-opted-not-to-disclose-report-says">exposed the private data</a> of "hundreds of thousands of users" for years, that Google knew about the problem, and that the company opted not to disclose the data leak for fear of regulatory scrutiny. In the wake of the report, Google was forced to acknowledge the data leak, and the company admitted that the "private" data of 500,000 accounts actually wasn't private. Since nobody worked on Google+ anymore, Google's "fix" for the bug was to <a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/12/10/1839254/google-will-shut-down-google-four-months-early-after-second-data-leak">close Google+ entirely</a>. Then the lawsuits <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/08/09/047229/settlement-for-google-breach-offers-class-members-up-to-12-each">started</a>.
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Today's class-action lawsuit, Matt Matic and Zak Harris v. Google, was filed in October 2018 and blames Google's "lax approach to data security" for the bugs. The complaint added, "Worse, after discovery of this vulnerability in the Google+ platform, Defendants kept silent for at least seven months, making a calculated decision not to inform users that their Personal Information was compromised, further compromising the privacy of consumers' information and exposing them to risk of identity theft or worse." The case website with full details is at <a href="https://www.googleplusdatalitigation.com/">googleplusdatalitigation.com</a>. The case was settled in June 2020, with Google agreeing to pay out $7.5 million. After losing about half of that money to legal and administrative fees, and with 1,720,029 people filling out the right forms by the October 2020 deadline, the payout for each person is a whopping $2.15.</i><br>
		 	
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				Apple Wallet is <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/08/student-ids-on-iphone-and-apple-watch-expand-to-canada-and-more-us-universities/">expanding</a> access to its contactless student IDs, a feature it first debuted in 2018. A number of U.S. universities are <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/4/22609571/apple-wallet-student-ids-university-expansion">adopting the new format for the first time</a>. Apple Wallet student IDs will also arrive in Canada later this fall. The Verge reports: <i> The University of New Brunswick and Sheridan College will be the first two Canadian schools to use Apple Wallet IDs. The new US roster includes Auburn, Northern Arizona University, University of Maine, and New Mexico State University, in addition to "many more colleges across the country." The University of Alabama, one of the program's early adopters, will also be the first school to issue exclusively mobile student IDs (to students with eligible devices) this fall. (Those with Android phones can use the digital cards through Google Pay.) Apple claims that "tens of thousands of college students" will have access to the feature during this upcoming school year.
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				An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: <i>[Miami has] <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7eqa9/miami-launches-miamicoin-to-make-millions-and-fund-the-police">launched its own cryptocurrency</a>, MiamiCoin, which claims to allow city citizens to earn Bitcoin "in their sleep." On Tuesday, Okcoin was the first crypto exchange to list MiamiCoin. The idea is to fill the city's coffers via speculation. People can mine the coin (which is less difficult and thus less energy intensive than mining Bitcoin or Ethereum), and revenue from the coin will be diverted to the city's treasury. As investors buy the coin, its value will ideally continue to go up, and that cash will be used to fund infrastructure projects or events in the city.
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				An anonymous reader shares a report:<i> It has been over three months since Click Studios, the Australian software house behind the enterprise password manager Passwordstate, warned its customers to "commence resetting all passwords." The company was hit by a supply chain attack that sought to steal the passwords from customer servers around the world. But customers tell TechCrunch that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/04/passwordstate-supply-chain-attack/">they are still without answers about the attack</a>. Several customers say they were met with silence from Click Studios, while others were asked to sign strict secrecy agreements when they asked for assurances about the security of the software. One IT executive whose company was compromised by the attack said they felt "abandoned" by the software maker in the wake of the attack.<br> <br>

Passwordstate is a standalone web server that enterprise companies can use to store and share passwords and secrets for their organizations, like keys for cloud systems and databases that store sensitive customer data, or "break glass" accounts that grant emergency access to the network. Click Studios says it has 29,000 customers using Passwordstate, including banks, universities, consultants, tech companies, defense contractors and U.S. and Australian government agencies, according to public records seen by TechCrunch.</i><br>
		 	
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				Facebook <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/04/facebook-ad-observatory-nyu-researchers/">shut down accounts</a> belonging to two academic researchers late Tuesday, cutting off their ability to study political ads and misinformation on the world's biggest social network. From a report:<i> The company accused the academics of engaging in "unauthorized scraping" and compromising user privacy on the platform, claims that Facebook's many critics are slamming as a thin pretense for killing the transparency work. The company took action against Laura Edelson and Damon McCoy, two well-known researchers affiliated with NYU's Cybersecurity for Democracy project who have long sparred with the company. <br> <br>

The move cuts off their access to Facebook's Ad Library -- one of the company's only meaningful transparency efforts to date -- and data on popular posts from the social media monitoring service CrowdTangle. Facebook has a history with Edelson and McCoy. The company served the pair cease and desist letters just weeks before the 2020 election, calling on the team to disable an opt-in browser tool called Ad Observer and unpublish their findings. Ad Observer is a browser tool anyone can install that's designed to give researchers a rare glimpse into how Facebook targets the ads that have transformed it into a trillion-dollar company. "Over the last several years, we've used this access to uncover systemic flaws in the Facebook Ad Library, identify misinformation in political ads including many sowing distrust in our election system, and to study Facebook's apparent amplification of partisan misinformation," Edelson said on Twitter.</i> "After years of abusing users' privacy, it's rich for Facebook to use it as an excuse to crack down on researchers exposing its problems. I've asked the FTC to confirm that this excuse is as bogus as it sounds," tweeted Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR).<br>
		 	
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				Researchers around the world have <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/93855">continued breathing new life into a retracted study</a>, which suggested that common antihypertensive medications were harmful in patients with COVID-19. From a report:<i> Published online on May 1, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007621">study</a> relied on Surgisphere data to claim an association between renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitor therapy and worse outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with cardiovascular disease. The journal retracted the paper due to concerns about fraudulent data on June 4, 2020 in a widely publicized move, but the study has continued to rack up citations -- totaling at least 652 as of May 31, 2021, reported Todd Lee, MD, MPH, of McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues.<br> <br>

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				At the Black Hat security conference Wednesday, two security researchers have disclosed a security issue impacting hosted DNS service providers that can be <a href="https://therecord.media/amazon-and-google-patch-major-bug-in-their-dns-as-a-service-platforms/">abused to hijack the platform's nodes</a>, intercept some of the incoming DNS traffic, and then map customers' internal networks. From a report:<i> Discovered by Shir Tamari and Ami Luttwak from cloud security company Wiz, the vulnerability highlights the amount of sensitive information collected by managed DNS platforms and their attractiveness from a cyber-espionage and intelligence data collection standpoint. <br> <br>

Also known as DNS-as-a-Service providers, these companies effectively rent DNS servers to corporate entities. While it's not hard to run your own DNS name server, the benefit of using a service like AWS Route53 or the Google Cloud Platform is that companies can offload managing DNS server infrastructure to a third-party and take advantage of better uptime and top-notch security. Companies that sign up for a managed DNS provider typically have to onboard their internal domain names with the service provider. This typically means companies have to go to a backend portal and add their company.com and other domains to one of the provider's name servers (i.e., ns-1611.awsdns-09.co.uk). Once this is done, when a company employee wants to connect to an intranet app or an internet website, their computer will query the third-party DNS server for the IP address it needs to connect. What the Wiz team discovered was that several managed DNS providers did not blacklist their own DNS servers inside their backends.</i><br>
		 	
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