Apache SpamAssassin celebrates its 18th birthday this year, a huge accomplishment for everyone who has contributed to the open-source project for nearly the past two decades. SpamAssassin, a renowned and respected open-source anti-spam platform, provid… Continue Reading — An Open-Source Success Story: Apache SpamAssassin Celebrates...

How much do you know about cloud security? Companies that move to the cloud have to assume new responsibilities, develop new skill sets and implement new processes. The first step to better cloud security is to assume you have no security. Learn more i… Continue...

Are you aware that Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers were hit by severe outages yesterday after an apparent DDoS attack took S3 and other services offline for up to eight hours? Learn more about the attack: Continue Reading — AWS Left Reeling After Eight-Hour DDoS

Two openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots were released this week that updated several libraries as well as updates for GNOME, Ruby, Samba, Mozilla and the LLVM compiler. Snapshot 20191018 provided minor updates for both Mozilla Firefox 69.0.3 and Thunderbird 68.1.2. The update to Firefox fixed a bug that...

Kubernetes offers a range of storage solutions out of the box, but the majority of these are specific to cloud providers, for example, AWS or Google Cloud. This means that the options left for bare metal deployments are Ceph, NFS or local. “StorageOS is a newcomer...

Although this isn’t a fairy tale, I’d still like to start a long time ago. It’s more than one year since we had a meeting with our partner AWS in the SAP Linux Lab. The purpose of this meeting was to address a request from AWS...

An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating… Continue Reading —...

Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.3.0 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which Continue Reading — RedHat: RHSA-2019-3200:01 Moderate: Red...

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rati… Continue Reading —...

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 24, 2019 is available. Continue Reading — [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 24, 2019