It’s trivial to update firmware on Linux these days thanks to the LVFS, the fwupd tool, and integration within the GNOME Software app (aka Ubuntu Software on Ubuntu). But there are times when a user […] This post, New App Makes Linux Firmware Management A LOT...

Packt has published a lengthy writeup of a talk by Josh Triplett on work being done to advance the Rust language for system-level programming. “Systems programming often involves low-level manipulations and requires low-level details of the pro… Continue Reading — Rust is the future of...

Kubernetes has ushered in an era of complex and often large-scale microservices applications running as containers that are updated frequently via CI/CD, yet still leverage underlying network technologies like iptables built for an era of simple and static applications. Cilium (Github), an open source CNI plugin for Kubernetes, leverages...

An update for jenkins 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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, Continue Reading — RedHat: RHSA-2019-2548:01 Important: OpenShift Container...

An update that contains security fixes can now be installed. Continue Reading — SUSE: 2019:14155-1 important: Recommended ghostscript-library

An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available. Continue Reading — SUSE: 2019:2236-1 moderate: fontforge

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available. Continue Reading — SUSE: 2019:2227-1 important: libvirt

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Continue Reading — SUSE: 2019:2232-1 important: the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 2 for SLE 15 SP1)

Nick Roessler and Rafi Rubin discovered that the IMAP and ManageSieve protocol parsers in the Dovecot email server do not properly validate input (both pre- and post-login). A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to trigger out of bounds hea… Continue Reading —...

Details: Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge Location in Manama, Bahrain. With this new Edge location, viewers in Bahrain will now see up to a 40% improvement in latency when accessing content through CloudFront. CloudFront now has 189 Points of Presence spread across 71 cities in...