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October 16, 2018

Right to Repair is Simple

I was in Montpellier, VT this week for R2R Task Force meeting, and one refrain that I kept hearing from the big corporate lobbyists was that the Right to Repair bill is “too broad.” They know legislators like to make everyone happy through negotiation, and tend towards incremental rather than broad Source: Right to Repair is Simple
A pulse-racing tale of biotech bug fixing Source: It’s the real Heart Bleed: Medtronic locks out vulnerable pacemaker programmer kit
Cryptocurrency miners are now being distributed by a new campaign pretending to be Adobe Flash Player installers. While this is not new, this particular campaign is going the extra mile to appear legitimate by not only installing a miner, but also updating Flash Player as well. Source: CoinMiners Use New Tricks to Impersonate Adobe Flash Installers
Re-branded IP cameras and DVRs sold by over 100 companies can be easily hacked, researchers say. Source: Over nine million cameras and DVRs open to APTs, botnet herders, and voyeurs | ZDNet
Computer Professional Repair
Source: New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom – Bloomberg