The last week has produced a total of three openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots bringing the total amount of snapshots for the month to 18. All 18 snapshots have recorded a stable rating above 91, according to the Tumbleweed snapshot reviewer. With 14 of them, recording a rating...

Last year, AWS Config launched the ability to deploy AWS Config rules and conformance packs across an organization from the master account in AWS Organizations. Starting today, you can deploy these AWS Config artifacts from any delegated member account… Continue Reading — Now deploy AWS...

Security fix for CVE-2020-12662 and CVE-2020-12663 Continue Reading — Fedora 31: unbound FEDORA-2020-8e9b62948e>

– CVE-2020-10957: lmtp/submission: A client can crash the server by sending a NOOP command with an invalid string parameter. This occurs particularly for a parameter that doesn’t start with a double quote. This applies to all SMTP services, including s… Continue Reading — Fedora 31:...

The Python Language Summit is an annual gathering for the developers of various Python implementations, though, this year, the gathering actually happened via videoconference—as with so many other conferences due to the pandemic. The invite-only gathering typically has numerous interesting sessions, as can be seen in...

AWS SAM now supports AWS Step Functions, enabling you to integrate workflow orchestration into your serverless applications quickly and easily. Through direct support in the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM), an open-source framework for … Continue Reading — AWS SAM adds support for AWS Step...

Kees Cook takes a look some changes improving security in Linux 5.5. Topics include restrict perf_event_open() from LSM, generic fast full refcount_t, linker script cleanup for exception tables, KASLR for 32-bit PowerPC, seccomp for RISC-V, and … Continue Reading — Cook: security things in Linux...

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available. Continue Reading — SUSE: 2020:1493-1 libmspack>

Elastic Load Balancing now supports Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) policies on Network Load Balancers. ALPN is a TLS extension supported by all major browsers that enables negotiation of the protocol used after establishing a TLS connection, such as HTTP/2. Using ALPN policies, you can now offload your...

We are living through interesting times that present challenges in a number of areas, including running a business. While we think of LWN primarily as a community resource, it is also a business that is not unaffected by the ongoing pandemic. … Continue Reading —...