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View ArticleKrebs on Security: Adobe, Microsoft Each Plug 70+ Security Holes
Adobe and Microsoft today independently issued software updates to plug critical security holes in their software. Adobe released a patch that fixes a whopping 78 security vulnerabilities in its Flash...
View ArticleLWN.net: WordPress 4.4 released
Version 4.4 of the WordPress blogging platform (and, these days, general content-management system) has been released. Highlights in this update include responsive image displays, integration of a REST...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Police Raid Popular Movie & TV Show Streaming Portal
Police have raided the homes of several people on suspicion of having connections to Sweflix, one of Sweden's most popular streaming portals. The action was the culmination of a long investigation...
View ArticleLinux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: How to connect your Android device on...
Buying a media device that needs a special driver and/or connectivity suite to navigate and update its contents is a common case nowadays, and has been ever since manufacturers decided that it would be...
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AWS Security Blog: How to Govern Your Application Deployments by Using Amazon...
Governance among IT teams has become increasingly challenging, especially when dealing with application deployments that involve many different technologies. For example, consider the case of trying...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Thursday
Arch Linux has updated flashplugin (many vulnerabilities) and libxml2 (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated chromium-browser (many vulnerabilities) and xen (multiple vulnerabilities)....
View ArticleKrebs on Security: The Role of Phony Returns in Gift Card Fraud
On any given day, there are thousands of gift cards from top retailers for sale online that can be had for a fraction of their face value. Some of these are exactly what they appear to be: legitimate...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Canadian Govt Eyes VPN Pirates, Netflix Thieves and ISP Blocking
New Government documents have shed some light on the future agenda points for online copyright enforcement. In a briefing for minister Mélanie Joly, officials from the Department of Canadian Heritage...
View ArticleLWN.net: Stable kernel 4.3.2
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 4.3.2 stable kernel. It fixes a problem with time validation in X.509 certificate handling that has been present since 4.3.0 (CVE-2015-5327). If you are not using...
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View ArticleAWS Official Blog: New – Route 53 Traffic Flow
I registered my first domain name almost 20 years ago! Back then, the mapping from a domain name to a server was simple and straightforward. Load balancers, geographic redundancy, website monitoring,...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Welcome the Newest AWS Community Heroes (Winter 2015)
I would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest AWS Community Heroes: Jarrod Levitan Keith Yau Boyan Dimitrov Austen Collins Teri Radichel The Heroes share their enthusiasm for AWS via social...
View ArticleLWN.net: Linux video editing in real time with Open Broadcast Studio...
Over at Opensource.com, Seth Kenlon looks at realtime video editing with Open Broadcast Studio (OBS). The article describes OBS sources and scenes, compositing, filters, output options, and more. "It...
View ArticleErrata Security: Policy wonks aren’t computer experts
This Politico story polls "cybersecurity experts" on a range of issues. But they weren't experts, they were mostly policy wonks and politicians. Almost none of them have ever configured a firewall,...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Search Engines Need Regulating to Reduce Piracy, Russia Says
Russian telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor says it will create a working group to look into the regulation of search engine results. The move is part of a package of initiatives designed to make pirated...
View ArticleLinux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: How to Customise Your Linux Desktop: LXDE
Part six(!) in my Linux Desktop series, I'm looking at LXDE on Debian GNU/Linux and Raspbian. So far in this series I have looked at customizing Xfce, KDE, Gnome 3,Cinnamon and MATE. That covers a lot...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Make Games with Python – the latest e-book in The MagPi...
Make Games with Python is designed to help you learn the coding skills you need to create amazing games and applications on your Raspberry Pi. The best bit? The price starts at free… While countless...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Hit-and-Run Driver Arrested Because Car Reported Accident
A Florida woman drove away after an accident, but her car automatically reported it anyway. She was arrested.
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Arch Linux has updated keepassx (information disclosure). Fedora has updated knot (F23; F22: out-of-bound read). Mageia has updated chromium-browser-stable (M5: multiple vulnerabilities), imagemagick...
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