After years of going nowhere, could web micropayments be the next big enabler for user privacy? Learn more in a great Naked Security article: Continue Reading — Is 0 million enough to save the web from ads?

IBM continues to push its quantum computing efforts forward and today announced that it will soon make a 53-qubit quantum computer available to clients of its IBM Q Network. The new system, which is scheduled to go online in the middle of next month, … ...

Are you a phpMyAdmin user? A cybersecurity researcher recently published details and proof-of-concept for an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in phpMyAdmin”one of the most popular applications for managing the MySQL and MariaDB databases. Learn more: Continue Reading — Warning: Researcher Drops phpMyAdmin Zero-Day Affecting All Versions

An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available. Continue Reading — SUSE: 2019:2395-1 moderate: openldap2

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Continue Reading — Ubuntu 4135-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Continue Reading — Ubuntu 4135-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

With the help of a new Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) user interface, SUSE Manager 4 makes it possible to clone software channels (Figure 1) through a lifecycle of several environments.   Figure 1: Software channels help you keep control of software installation.   This new tool allows...

Continue Reading — How do I install AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) and JDBC driver?

The Mozilla blog has an announcement that Firefox will be moving to 4-week release cycle, starting in 2020. “Shorter release cycles provide greater flexibility to support product planning and priority changes due to business or market requiremen… Continue Reading — Moving Firefox to a faster...

At Open Source Summit North America 2019, David Tarditi from Microsoft gave a talk on seven different properties for highly secure Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The properties are based on a Microsoft Research white paper [PDF] from 2017. … Continue Reading — [$] The...