The STIHL Group is planning to acquire COSMOS Manufacturing Inc., a U.S.-based manufacturer of mufflers. COSMOS, a current STIHL development partner and major supplier of mufflers, is headquartered in South Chicago Heights, Illinois, USA and employs some 200 people in the development, production, and sale of muffler systems and stamped components for small and medium-sized engines.

PMG Presse-Monitor has expanded its management team welcoming Michelle Harold as Vice President Global Sales to lead PMG's international sales team from 5 June. With her extensive experience in the digital transformation of content, Michelle will lead PMG's market expansion emanating from their ongoing investment and commitment to innovation in the conversion and provision of high-quality digital publishing content

In 2018, a French round box of candy was discovered in an antique shop in Salzburg. On its lid it portrays a young boy, wearing a wig and a red aristocratic coat. The Belgian Professor Stefaan Missinne spent two years investigating the miniature and the box dating from 1766: Missinne concludes that it is a hitherto unknown French portrait of the 10-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

With tourism down, world-famous painting elephant makes art for the health of her herd online.

Lebo draws inspiration from street art, Cuban music and line-based abstractions to design this year's collective poster for the Coconut Grove Arts Festival.

It is the most expensive cube ever made, funded by the booming cryptocurrency Castello Coin. For now, the world-famous Castello CUBE will no longer be open to the public – to protect it from damage and theft.

The Klimt Foundation presents the first comprehensive virtual record of the Jugendstil artist: www.klimt-database.com

Benjamin Frey, a multi-media artist, has designed the 59th annual commemorative poster for the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, and it's both historic and iconic.

The commemorative poster depicting the iconic Monty's Raw Bar was revealed by NBC6 news anchor Roxanne Vargas and the legendary Monty Trainer himself.

Camm Solutions (www.camm.org) has developed a globally scalable alternative to plastic and plastic packaging that is fully compostable, biodegradable and recyclable. The patented CAMM material contains zero microplastics, toxins, or eternal chemicals. CAMM has the potential to halve plastic waste globally. UN Organisation UNIDO defined it as global solution for microplastics.

The Coconut Grove Arts Festival is slated for Presidents' Day Weekend on February 17, 18 and 19, 2024. General Admission and VIP Collector's Club tickets have already gone on sale. The 60th iteration of this highly frequented outdoor festival promises to display a diversity of styles, textures, media, colors, and cultures to fill the senses.

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Five of the nation's most innovative early-career cancer researchers receive Hopper-Belmont Inspiration Award

Annual MSP 501 Identifies Best-in-Class Global MSP Businesses & Leading Trends in Managed Services.

Power Admin's flagship product, PA Server Monitor, comes with the Active Directory Login Monitor, which helps companies monitor employees in remote locations.

Power Admin's Active Directory Change Monitor allows businesses to detect unauthorized alterations to this vital directory service and thereby safeguard system security.

Power Admin's PA Server Monitor software includes user-friendly features that allow the operator to track the temperature data of a particular computer or network.

The Department of Social Scrutiny has unveiled the second part of its thorough investigation into your financial circumstances - Your Money and Your Life.

I recently wrote that Facebook should be regulated like a utility, but maybe social media is more like an addictive, harmful drug than a utility. The companies that push social media on us are like drug dealers. Given my libertarian sympathies, adults should generally be free to use the drugs they want, but society should regulate promotion and distribution of the substance and protect children from being preyed upon by the dealers.

The real problem with Facebook's behavior is the revelation of its rampant institutional lying. In the XCheck story, we learned that after Facebook spent more than $130 million to create an Independent Oversight Board to oversee its content-moderation decisions, Facebook executives routinely lied to that board. Facebook told the Oversight Board that XCheck was only used in "a small number of decisions," even though the program had grown to include 5.8 million users in 2020.

"We're not actually doing what we say we do publicly," and the company's actions constitute a "breach of trust," reads a confidential internal review done by Facebook.
We also learned -- shockingly -- that the CEO and COO of the trillion-dollar behemoth are regularly involved in decisions of what posts to remove when such posts are made by certain people who are exempted from Facebook's community guidelines and content-moderation procedures. This is all while Facebook asserted that it applied the same standards to everyone.

Apparently, XCheck was created to mitigate "p.r. fires" or negative media attentions when Facebook takes the wrong action against a high-profile VIP. Even worse than the existence of the XCheck program was Facebook's dishonesty about it, reflecting the state of mind of a company that knew it was doing something wrong -- and still did it anyway.

These revelations strengthen the case that Facebook likely serves increasingly as the censorship arm of the US government, just as it does for other governments around the world.

That last sentence gets to the heart of the matter, and explains why collective action against social media dealers has been so slow: the elite class wants to control our speech, and is happy to use social media dealers to do it.

Facebook is soma.

What is soma in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? In the context of the novel, soma is a recreational drug that several of the main characters take throughout the story. The government in Brave New World strongly encourages individuals to take soma as a way to increase the happiness and complacency of the population. Soma can be taken as a pill or as a powder and can also be released as an aerosol. It is freely available to everyone in the novel. Its inclusion in the text is central to the novel's themes of complacency and resistance in society as well as the theme of escapism.

Many people say that the Republican infighting over Kevin McCarthy's election as Speaker of the House is embarrassing and demonstrates a lack of governing ability. I say: more squabbling please!

The House should be raucous. Why should everything be politely settled behind closed doors? No! We need more public fighting among our elected officials, not less. Americans have major disagreements with each other, and the best way to sort them out is through politics. Let's have them yell and scream and argue with each other in public until someone wins.

League tables revealing failing NHS trusts and cancelled pay rises or dismissal for managers who don't turn things around are part of plans to improve the health service.

Fines of £10,000 for social media bosses who don't remove illegal knife adverts are being considered by the government.

Actor Timothy West has died peacefully in his sleep aged 90, "with his friends and family at the end".

It’s the start of the work week, so for the IT administrators among us, I have another great article by friend of the website, Stefano Marinelli. This article covers migrating a Proxmox-based setup to FreeBSD with bhyve. The load is not particularly high, and the machines have good performance. Suddenly, however, I received a notification: one of the NVMe drives died abruptly, and the server rebooted. ZFS did its job, and everything remained sufficiently secure, but since it’s a leased server and already several years old, I spoke with the client and proposed getting more recent hardware and redoing the setup based on a FreeBSD host. ↫ Stefano Marinelli If you’re interested in moving one of your own setups, or one of your clients’ setups, from Linux to FreeBSD, this is a great place to start and get some ideas, tips, and tricks. Like I said, it’s Monday, and you need to get to work.

Some months ago, I got really fed up with C. Like, I don’t hate C. Hating programming languages is silly. But it was way too much effort to do simple things like lists/hashmaps and other simple data structures and such. I decided to try this language called Odin, which is one of these “Better C” languages. And I ended up liking it so much that I moved my game Artificial Rage from C to Odin. Since Odin has support for Raylib too (like everything really), it was very easy to move things around. Here’s how it all went.. Well, what I remember the very least. ↫ Akseli Lahtinen You programmers might’ve thought you escaped the wrath of Monday on OSNews, but after putting the IT administrators to work in my previous post, it’s now time for you to get to work. If you have a C codebase and want to move it to something else, in this case Odin, Lahtinen’s article will send you on your way. As someone who barely knows how to write HTML, it’s difficult for me to say anything meaningful about the technical details, but I feel like there’s a lot of useful, first-hand info here.

More bad news from Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.” Announcing the layoffs in an email to all employees on October 30, the Mozilla Foundation’s executive director Nabiha Syed confirmed that two of the foundation’s major divisions — advocacy and global programs — are “no longer a part of our structure.” ↫ Zack Whittaker at TechCrunch This means Mozilla will no longer be advocating for an open web, privacy, and related ideals, which fits right in with the organisation’s steady decline into an ad-driven effort that also happens to be making a web browser used by, I’m sorry to say, effectively nobody. I just don’t know how many more signs people need to see before realising that the future of Firefox is very much at stake, and that we’re probably only a few years away from losing the only non-big tech browser out there. This should be a much bigger concern than it seems to be to especially the Linux and BSD world, who rely heavily on Firefox, without a valid alternative to shift to once the browser’s no longer compatible with the various open source requirements enforced by Linux distributions and the BSDs. What this could also signal is that the sword of Damocles dangling above Mozilla’s head is about to come down, and that the people involved know more than we do. Google is effectively bankrolling Mozilla – for about 80% of its revenue – but that deal has come under increasing scrutiny from regulars, and Google itself, too, must be wondering why they’re wasting money supporting a browser nobody’s using. We’re very close to a web ruled by Google and Apple. If that prospect doesn’t utterly terrify you, I honestly wonder what you’re doing here, reading this.

Korzystając z zainfekowanych telefonów, przestępcy rozsyłają wiadomości SMS z informacją o konieczności podjęcia działań wraz z linkiem do złośliwej strony. Jeśli użytkownik zgodzi sie na pobranie i zainstalowanie aplikacji to po uzyskaniu odpowiednich uprawnień przejmuje ona kontrolę nad urządzeniem i wykradać dane z telefonu.

Rynek urządzeń mobilnych z roku na rok powiększa się, a w raz z nim liczba ataków na urządzenia mobilne. W 2021 r. do zespołu zespołu CERT Polska trafiło ponad 17,5 tys. zgłoszeń dotyczących szkodliwych aplikacji na systemy operacyjne Android.

Ostrzegamy - fałszywe reklamy w serwisie Google Search wykorzystywane do propagacji szkodliwego oprogramowania.

Przestępcy próbują doprowadzić do infekcji komputera ofiary wszelkimi możliwymi sposobami. Bardzo częstym wektorem ataku są masowo wysyłane emaile zawierające złośliwe załączniki, które mają zostać otworzone i uruchomione przez ofiarę.

W module WebInteraface oprogramowania Telwin SCADA CERT Polska wykrył podatność typu Path Traversal (CVE-2023-0956).

W oprogramowaniu UptimeDC firmy ProIntegra S.A wykryto podatność pozwalającą na eskalację uprawnień (CVE-2023-4997).

W oprogramowaniu SmodBIP wykryto podatność CSRF (CVE-2023-4837).

Firma Cisco opublikowała informację o krytycznej podatności CVE-2023-20198 w funkcjonalności Web User Interface oprogramowania Cisco IOS XE. Luka umożliwia nieautoryzowanemu złośliwemu użytkownikowi utworzenie konta administratora z poziomu interfejsu użytkownika i przejęcie kontroli nad urządzeniem docelowym.

W oprogramowaniu Apereo Central Authentication Service wykryto podatność pozwalającą na ominięcie wieloskładnikowego uwierzytelnienia (CVE-2023-4612).

W oprogramowaniu SAS 9.4 wykryto podatność typu Reflected XSS (CVE-2023-4932).

Zespół CERT Polska oraz Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego wraz z zagranicznymi partnerami wykryły, że Rosyjska Służba Wywiadu Zagranicznego (SVR) wykorzystuje podatność CVE-2023-42793 (w JetBrains TeamCity) do szeroko zakrojonych działań, skierowanych przeciwko podmiotom wytwarzającym oprogramowanie.

W oprogramowaniu MegaBIP oraz SmodBIP wykryto podatność Stored XSS (CVE-2023-5378).

Okres świąteczny powoli dobiega końca, zatem najwyższy czas ostatecznie rozprawić się z cyberbombkami. W grudniu przygotowaliśmy dla Was cykl „Rozbrajamy cyberbombki”, w którym obalaliśmy najpopularniejsze mity dotyczące cyberbezpieczeństwa.

W oprogramowaniu PrestaShop Google Integrator firmy PrestaShow wykryto podatność typu SQL injection (CVE-2023-6921).

W otwartoźródłowym oprogramowaniu TasmoAdmin wykryto podatność open redirect (CVE-2023-6552).

W otwartoźródłowym oprogramowaniu TCExam wykryto podatność (CVE-2023-6554).

W oprogramowaniu Kofax Capture wykryto podatność typu Stored XSS (CVE-2023-5118).

W oprogramowaniu routera Hongdian H8951-4G-ESP wykryto 10 podatności różnego typu (od CVE-2023-49253 do CVE-2023-49262).

W oprogramowaniu Comarch ERP XL wykryto trzy podatności (CVE-2023-4537, CVE-2023-4538, CVE-2023-4539).

W otwartoźródłowym oprogramowaniu Laragon wykryto podatność RCE (CVE-2024-0864).

W oprogramowaniu BMC Control-M wykryto 3 podatności różnego typu (od CVE-2024-1604 do CVE-2024-1606).

W oprogramowaniu CDeX wykryto 3 podatności różnego typu (od CVE-2024-2463 do CVE-2024-2465).