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Rust is the language we are all expecting to save us and it has just scored two more goals. The Chromium project has decided to support it and Mozilla, the original home of Rust, has a revitalized Servo project.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 19, 2023

AgStack: Linux Foundation Project Will Bring Farms Online

The Linux Foundation is undertaking the massive task of assigning farm fields with a GeoID to enable a new digital infrastructure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 18, 2023

Linux Community Presses for RNDIS to be Marked as Broken

The next Linux kernel cycle we could see upstream disable their driver support for Microsoft's Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) protocol due to security concerns.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 16, 2023

Linux is All Set to Disable Microsoft's RNDIS Drivers

The Linux Kernel will no longer support RNDIS drivers. A good move? What does this mean for you? Find out here.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 15, 2023

Linux Preparing To Disable Drivers For Microsoft's RNDIS Protocol

With the next Linux kernel cycle we could see upstream disable their driver support for Microsoft's Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) protocol due to security concerns.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 13, 2023

Linux Kernel 6.0 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux 6.1

The time has come to say goodbye to the Linux 6.0 kernel series as it’s now marked as EOL (End of Life) on the kernel.org website, which means that it will no longer be updated.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 13, 2023

Linux Kernel 4.9 Reaches End of Life After 6 Years of Support

After being supported for a little more than six years, the Linux 4.9 kernel series has finally reached end of life with the 4.9.337 update released earlier this morning. The kernel is now marked appropriately as EOL on the kernel.org website, which means that it will no longer receive maintenance and security updates.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 09, 2023

Fedora 38 To Beef Up Its Compiler Fortification Defenses

In addition to Fedora 38 now allowing "no-omit-frame-pointer" to enhance profiling/debugging with possible performance costs, this next Fedora Linux release is also planning to use "_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3" compiler defenses to further bolster security.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 06, 2023

Google Launches Free Vulnerability Scanner

Google has announced the availability of OSV-Scanner, a free tool that acts as a front end interface to the Open Source Vulnerability (OSV) database. The OSV-Scanner assesses a project's dependencies against the OSV database showing all vulnerabilities relating to the project.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 02, 2023

Intel LAM Patches Updated After Its Rejection From Linux 6.2

Intel engineers had submitted support for Linear Address Masking (LAM) with the recently-closed Linux 6.2 merge window but it was rejected by Linus Torvalds. In working toward re-submitted it for the v6.3 cycle or later, an updated Linux LAM patch series was posted today.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 28, 2022

Arch Linux-Based SystemRescue 9.06 Toolkit Adds Xfce 4.18 and New Bootable USB Creator

The new version also adds the Memtest86+ 6.00 memory tester for UEFI in the GRUB boot menu and the inxi system information tool.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 22, 2022

Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Released with Improved Classification & Performance

The Apache SpamAssassin project has released version 4.0.0 of its renowned open-source anti-spam platform with numerous tweaks and bug fixes and improved classification, performance and handling of text in international languages. This release is an important milestone in the open source world, as Apache SpamAssassin has emerged as a testament to the security benefits of leveraging the open-source development model to combat the universal threat of spam email over the past two decades.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 18, 2022

GNU Linux-Libre 6.1 Arrives as a 100% Free Kernel for Software Freedom Lovers

Alexandre Oliva announced today the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 6.1 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 13, 2022

Linux Kernel 6.1: Rusty Release Could Be a Game-Changer

Don't sob into your battered copy of K&R though, the shift will move slowly.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 11, 2022

8 Linux Tools IT Operations Engineers Should Master

Which Linux tools are the most important for IT operations work? That depends on exactly which type of ITOps work you're talking about, of course.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 07, 2022

More CXL Work On The Way For Linux 6.2 (Compute Express Link)

Thanks to the ongoing work led by Intel's Linux engineers, the upcoming Linux 6.2 kernel will feature more feature work around enabling Compress Express Link (CXL) functionality.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 05, 2022

Twenty Years On, Command-Line Virus Scanner ClamAV Puts Out Version 1

The ClamAV command-line virus scanner used on many Linux boxes has attained an important-looking milestone release: version 1.0.0.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 01, 2022

Sway 1.8-rc1 Wayland Compositor Brings More Secure Screen Lockers, Improved Vulkan Code

The first release candidate of the Sway 1.8 Wayland compositor is now available for testing.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 28, 2022

REMnux: The Linux Toolkit for Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis

REMnux is a free community distribution that ethical hackers, security researchers, and many other security pros can leverage to build their own labs and speed up malware analysis.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 27, 2022

Rust’s Addition to the Linux Kernel Seen as “Enormous Vote of Confidence” in the Language

The release candidate for the latest version of the Linux kernel was announced last month, and one of the highlights in the release notes for Linux 6.1 is the inclusion of the initial infrastructure for adding Rust as a language.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 27, 2022

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