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LinuxSecurity.com: The headlines love to talk about sophisticated hacking gangs, exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities to break their way into businesses and steal corporate data.

LinuxSecurity.com: California is hoping a new law will help fix the security and privacy problems that plague the so-called internet of things, but experts say a lot more needs to be done to seriously tackle the problem.

LinuxSecurity.com: Three men who operated and controlled the notorious Mirai botnet have been sentenced to five years of probation.

LinuxSecurity.com: In a surprising move, Linus Torvalds, Linux's creator, is taking a break from his Linux kernel work to work on his behavior toward other developers. In a note to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Torvalds wrote, "I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely."

LinuxSecurity.com: As detailed by the Politico report confirmed by US officials, the employees affected by the e-mail system hack were notified, but the alert sent also discloses the fact that the e-mail system containing classified information was not breached.

LinuxSecurity.com: The FBI has warned US parents that school use of educational technology could be putting their children at risk from identity theft, cyber bullying and more.

LinuxSecurity.com: A new phishing campaign is using an old trick in an effort to steal login credentials, payment details and other sensitive information from victims by claiming to offer them a tax refund which can only be claimed online.

LinuxSecurity.com: Normal service was finally resumed at Bristol airport yesterday after two days of ransomware-related outages caused a blackout of flight information screens.

LinuxSecurity.com: The DEF CON 2018 Voting Machine Hacking Village aimed to raise awareness in voting security through a full day of speakers and panel discussions along with a challenge for attendees to hack more than 30 pieces of voting equipment. A partnership with rOOtz Asylum offered youths between 8 and 16 years old an opportunity to hack replicas of the websites of secretaries of state to demonstrate that even hackers with limited years of experience can easily compromise critical systems.

LinuxSecurity.com: After writing yesterday about kernel contributions of AMD vs. NVIDIA vs. Intel, I kicked off the hours-long process of gitstats analyzing the Linux kernel Git repository for some fresh numbers on the current kernel development trends.

LinuxSecurity.com: NCCIC warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity seeking to exploit interest in Hurricane Florence. Fraudulent emails commonly appear after major natural disasters and often contain links or attachments that direct users to malicious websites.

LinuxSecurity.com: A GandCrab ransomware attack forced Monroe County School District in Florida to shut down its computer systems for at least three days.

LinuxSecurity.com: The ICO has received 500 calls each week to its breach reporting helpline since the GDPR came into force in May, but around a third of these don't meet the minimum threshold, according to the deputy commissioner of operations.

LinuxSecurity.com: Nation-states and criminal gangs often get the blame for cyber attacks against universities, but a new analysis of campaigns against the education sector suggests that students -- or even staff -- could be perpetrators of many of these attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com: California looks set to regulate IoT devices, becoming the first US state to do so and beating the Federal Government to the post.

LinuxSecurity.com: The website of Edinburgh University was still down at the time of writing after the institution suffered a major cyber-attack during its Freshers' Week.

LinuxSecurity.com: A Nigerian resident has been ordered to pay back $2.5 million in damages and serve five years in prison for running business email compromise (BEC) scams which sought to defraud victims out of $25 million.

LinuxSecurity.com: Whether you're a developer building websites or internal applications, or an administrator building the infrastructure to back them, your job doesn't stop once they're up and running. Machine failure, releases containing bugs, and growth in usage can all lead to problems that need to be dealt with. To detect them, you need monitoring.

LinuxSecurity.com: In the past, a midterm election season would pass without much fanfare. These have been torpid affairs with low voter turnout and few big-ticket issues, which historically has meant incumbents rather predictably hold their seats.

LinuxSecurity.com: Georgian officials have extradited Russian citizen Andrei Tyurin to the United States, where he will face charges related to a wide-ranging hacking campaign that targeted the US financial sector and included the 2014 breach of JP Morgan Chase.