Security: Windows 'Fun' at Melbourne and Alleged Phishing by Venezuela’s Government

• Melbourne Heart Group hit by Windows ransomware

  The Melbourne Heart Group, a medical unit located at Cabrini Hospital in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, has been hit by a Windows ransomware attack that has resulted in about 15,000 patients being locked.

• Crime syndicate hacks 15,000 medical files at Cabrini Hospital, demands ransom

  Melbourne Heart Group, which is based at the private hospital in Malvern, has been unable to access some patient files for more than three weeks, after the malware attack crippled its server and corrupted data.

• Venezuela’s Government Appears To Be Trying to Hack Activists With Phishing Pages

  The IP address of the fake site was hosting several domains designed to phish usernames and passwords for Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, Microsoft Live, Linkedin, and Apple’s iCloud, among other sites, according to public data collected by PassiveTotal and other internet monitoring services reviewed by Motherboard.

today's howtos

• An introduction to spatial joins with QGIS

• Basic dig Command Usage with Examples

• How to Check Weather From your Ubuntu System

• How to Install FreeIPA Client on CentOS 7

• How to Install MediaWiki on CentOS 7

• How to Install Python 3.7.2 in Ubuntu 18.04 / 18.10

• Using the NetworkManager’s DNSMasq plugin

• How to use Kiwi TCMS plugins, Pt. 1

GCC 8.3 Released and GCC 9 Plans

• GCC 8.3 Released

  The GNU Compiler Collection version 8.3 has been released. GCC 8.3 is a bug-fix release from the GCC 8 branch containing important fixes for regressions and serious bugs in GCC 8.2 with more than 153 bugs fixed since the previous release. This release is available from the FTP servers listed at: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about this release. Instead, use the resources available from http://gcc.gnu.org. As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far too many to thank them individually!

• GCC 8.3 Released With 153 Bug Fixes

  While the GCC 9 stable compiler release is a few weeks away in the form of GCC 9.1, the GNU Compiler Collection is up to version 8.3.0 today as their newest point release to last year's GCC 8 series.

• GCC 9 Compiler Picks Up Official Support For The Arm Neoverse N1 + E1

  Earlier this week Arm announced their next-generation Neoverse N1 and E1 platforms with big performance potential and power efficiency improvements over current generation Cortex-A72 processor cores. The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) ahead of the upcoming GCC9 release has picked up support for the Neoverse N1/E1. This newly-added Neoverse N1 and E1 CPU support for GCC9 isn't all that surprising even with the very short time since announcement and GCC9 being nearly out the door... Arm developers had already been working on (and landed) the Arm "Ares" CPU support, which is the codename for what is now the Neoverse platform.