TrendLabs: VPNFilter-affected Devices Still Riddled with 19 Vulnerabilities

Figure 1. A Shodan result of an FTP connection to a printer without authentication

REF: https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/vpnfilter-affected-devices-still-riddled-with-19-vulnerabilities/

Plex: Grid View on Apple TV

Grid Goodness on Apple TV

Plex on your Apple TV now displays Live TV and DVR programming in a familiar, grid-style view, making it easier than ever to see what’s on now and coming up. Plex Pass subscribers can quickly navigate to the program they want to watch live or record their favorite shows with one click.

REF: https://www.plex.tv/blog/grid-who/

TrendLabs: July Patch Tuesday: Large Adobe Security Update and Patches for 18 Critical Microsoft Vulnerabilities

The following vulnerabilities were disclosed via Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI):

• CVE-2018-8242
• CVE-2018-8274
• CVE-2018-8275
• CVE-2018-8282
• CVE-2018-8307

In addition to Microsoft’s regular patch cycle, this month’s Patch Tuesday features a massive round of updates from Adobe addressing 107 vulnerabilities across different Adobe products, including Flash, Reader, Acrobat and Adobe Experience Manager. Of these, 68 came from Trend Micro’s ZDI. CVE-2018-5007, a Flash Player type confusion vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution, is a notable vulnerability patched this month.

REF: https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/july-patch-tuesday-large-adobe-security-update-and-patches-for-18-critical-microsoft-vulnerabilities/

Netflix: The End of Video Coding?

In the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine issue November 2006 article “Future of Video Coding and Transmission” Prof. Edward Delp started by asking the panelists “Is video coding dead? Some feel that, with the higher coding efficiency of the H.264/MPEG-4 . . . perhaps there is not much more to do. I must admit that I have heard this compression is dead argument at least four times since I started working in image and video coding in 1976.”
REF: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/the-end-of-video-coding-40cf10e711a2

NEMS: Nagios Enterprise Monitoring Server

REF: https://nemslinux.com/

SUSE Forks Red Hat's Spacewalk Project

SUSE and openSUSE developers have forked Red Hat's Spacewalk project to create Uyuni. The fork was announced during the openSUSE Conference in Prague, Czech Republic. Spacewalk is an open-source systems management solution which was upstream for Red Hat Satellite and SUSE Manager.
REF: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2018/213/News

Microsoft is using AI to cut the cloud’s electric bill

Microsoft’s cloud is far more energy-efficient and carbon-efficient than traditional on-site data centers, according to a study commissioned by the company.

[Photo: eberhard grossgasteiger]

REF: https://www.fastcompany.com/40577770/how-microsoft-is-using-ai-to-make-the-cloud-more-energy-efficient?utm_source=DigitalOcean_Newsletter