The government claims that the new requirement will prevent fraud for citizens, but critics see it as the furthering of invasive surveillance measures. What are your thoughts? Learn more in an interesting Security Today article: Continue Reading — China Implements Mandatory Facial Recognition Scans For...
There is a lot to like about U.S. Sen. Cantwell’s new Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA). It is an important step towards the comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation that we need to protect us from corporations that place their profits ahead of our privacy. What is your opinion on...
New premium Ubuntu images with extended security, kernel live patching and more 4th December 2019 – Canonical today announced the availability of Ubuntu Pro images for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Available via AWS Marketplace, covering Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS, these new premium...
ZDNet reports that two more malicious modules have been removed from the Python Package Index. “The two libraries were created by the same developer and mimicked other more popular libraries — using a technique called typosquatting to register… Continue Reading — Two malicious Python libraries...
Managing many systems from one is a basic need for system administrators. A need which has obvious development commonality judging from the myriad tools available that delegate work to other systems. Often the criteria used to target systems for management is understandably inflexible. Directory service management...
There were 20 openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots released in the month of November and the snapshots brought in a large amount of updated packages to include KDE Applications 19.08.3, Frameworks 5.64.0 Plasma 5.17.2 and 5.17.3, Linux kernel 5.3.9 and 5.3.11, Mozilla Firefox 70, libvirt 5.9.0 and more....
HAProxy could be made to execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted HTTP/2 header. Continue Reading — Ubuntu 4212-1: HAProxy vulnerability>
An update for ose-cluster-authentication-operator-container, ose-cluster-config-operator-container, and ose-cluster-kube-apiserver-operator-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1. Continue Reading — RedHat: RHSA-2019-4082:01 Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.1>
An update for ose-cluster-kube-apiserver-operator-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CV… Continue Reading — RedHat: RHSA-2019-4081:01 Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.1>
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Oniguruma regular expressions library, notably used in PHP mbstring. Continue Reading — Debian LTS: DLA-2020-1: libonig security update>
