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Software Testers are Being Asked to Download Manjaro 18.0-beta3 ISO
While it won’t be available as a genuine production release for some time, it looks like you can now download…
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Canonical Shares Analytic Data Collected from Ubuntu Users
Canonical announced that a system data collection tool would be released with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver. They stated that…
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Peppermint OS 9 Ships with Security & Performance Updates Bundled In
Peppermint OS recently announced version 9 of their GNU/Linux distribution, which is based at least in part on Lubuntu. This…
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Keybase Introduces Exploding Messages to Ensure Forward Secrecy of Transmitted Data
Encrypted social networking service Keybase introduced a new technology that they call exploding messages. As of today, you can put…
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OpenBSD Project Announces They’re Disabling Intel HT Support by Default
Representatives from the OpenBSD project announced today on their mailing list that they’ll soon be disabling support for hyper-threading (HT)…
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UBports Announces First Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Release Candidate
Marius Gripsgård, lead developer of the UBports project, announced today that the first release candidate for the upcoming OTA-4 Ubuntu…
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Linux Kernel Dumps Out 107,000+ More Lines of Code
Several agencies have reported on the recent agreement to drop a large amount of code from the Linux kernel, but…
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Debian Jessie Enters End of Life Phase
If you’re still running Debian Jessie as of today, then you might not be as secure as you were just…
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RC3 Builds Begin for FreeBSD 11.2
The third release candidate builds for FreeBSD version 11.2 have begun, and they’re on course to allow developers to start…
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17 Tainted Docker Images Removed from Hub
It’s now been confirmed that Docker’s team had to pull 17 different container images that had dangerous backdoors stored inside…
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More Intel Users are Protected Against CVE-2018-3665 than Developers Originally Feared
An Intel-related security vulnerability deemed CVE-2018-3665 created quite a stir when many organizations attempted to quickly release patches for the…
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Secured CopperheadOS Distribution Experiences Potential Issues in Wake of Personnel Changes
You could say that CopperheadOS is to mobile Android-based Unix-like system software what SEL and Tails are to desktop Linux…
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Around Five Percent of Monero Coins were Mined Using Compromised Installs
According to a report that was originally released by security analysts from Palo Alto Networks, at least five percent of…
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NethServer Brings New Security Options to the Table with Release of Version 7.5
With the release of NethServer 7.5 on June 11 came the news that the latest version of NextCloud would be…
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Tails Version 3.7.1 Released, Promises Privacy and Security Improvements
The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) released version 3.7.1 of their GNU/Linux distribution on Sunday June 10, and it promises…
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New GPG Security Recommendations Help to Assuage Concerns of Vulnerabilities
Back in May, a technical paper published by EFAIL encouraged users to cease using GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) plugins when…
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Linux Users Among Others Urged to Update Flash Player Because of Vulnerabilities
While Adobe Flash Player updates are par for the course for when it comes to anyone who has used a…
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BSD Advocates Question Security Situation as Linux Server Popularity Booms
While Linux security has always been a hot button issue, a series of comments have recently reignited the war over…
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Bodhi Linux Founder Addresses Community Forum Closure
Jeff Hoogland, developer of Bodhi Linux, announced on June 3rd that he had closed the user forum and deleted all…
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Debian Issues Security Advisory for Wireshark Users
The Debian Project has put out a security advisory for users of its GNU/Linux distribution in regards to several vulnerabilities…
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Leaner Linux Kernel 4.17 Sees Full Release
Two major stories seemed to surround the news involving the release of Linux kernel version 4.17, and those were related…
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FOSS Organizations Begin GitLab Code Migration
Judging by recent social media posts to both Reddit and YouTube, a great migration from GitHub to GitLab is right…
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Linux Lite 4.0 Offers Improved Performance as Well as Security
Linux Lite 4.0 Final, also known by the code name Diamond, has promised some very big changes that should catch…
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Gentoo Developers Address Questions at AMA Session
A group of social media-equipped Gentoo Developers hosted an AMA session on Reddit today, and they didn’t shy away from…
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BlackArch Linux Version 2018.06.01 Now Available for Free Download
Security researchers who rely on BlackArch Linux as a penetration testing platform now have a new more secure edition of…
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