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A backdoor in the widely used xz compression utility has been discovered, posing a severe threat to Linux users. The issue is tracked as CVE-2024-3094 and has a maximum CVSS score of 10.

A critical vulnerability has been found in the wall command of the util-linux package that poses a severe security threat to Linux systems. This vulnerability, known as WallEscape and tracked as CVE-2024-28085 , has been present in every package version for the past 11 years.

Red Hat in all caps says STOP USAGE OF ANY FEDORA RAWHIDE INSTANCES. Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression library called xz may be present in Fedora Linux 40, 41, and in the Fedora Rawhide developer distribution.…

CVE-2024-1086 turns the page tables on system admins. A Linux privilege-escalation proof-of-concept exploit has been published that, according to the bug hunter who developed it, typically works effortlessly on kernel versions between at least 5.14 and 6.6.14. …

Andres Freund discovered that the upstream source tarballs for xz-utils, the XZ-format compression utilities, are compromised and inject malicious code, at build time, into the resulting liblzma5 library.

Summary: The latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access. Specifically, this code is present in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the libraries. Fedora Linux 40 users may have received version 5.6.0, depending on the timing of system updates. Fedora Rawhide users may have received version 5.6.0 or 5.6.1.

Monit is an open-source monitoring tool that can be used to monitor servers. This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the Monit monitoring tool on Ubuntu 22.04.

ElkArte is a free and open-source forum software written in PHP language. This tutorial will show you how to install ElkArte on Ubuntu 22.04 with Let's Encrypt SSL.

Munin is a free, open-source system and powerful network monitoring tool for Linux. This tutorial will show you how to install the Munin monitoring tool on Ubuntu 22.04.

PostgreSQL or Postgres is an open-source object-relational database management that implements the SQL querying language. pgAdmin is an open-source administration tool for PostgreSQL.

LibreNMS is a free and open-source monitoring tool written in PHP/MySQL/SNMP. This guide will teach you how to install and configure the LibreNMS monitoring tool on the latest Ubuntu 22.04 server. This tutorial will cover some additional configurations of the LEMP Stack for the LibreNMS installation.

In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels Analytics platform Databricks has launched an open source foundational large language model, hoping enterprises will opt to use its tools to jump on the LLM bandwagon.…

A year ago I wrote an article to give some insight into how an open source project looks behind the scenes from a maintainer’s perspective. One year on, I thought it might be interesting to share an update on that. Who I am and what the project is and does was covered previously and hasn’t […]

sFTPGo is a highly configurable SFTP server with additional secure protocols such as HTTP/S, FTP/S, and WebDAV support. It allows you to create FTP servers with several backends, such as local filesystems, and third-party storage providers, such as Amazon S3, Google Storage Engine, and Azure Blog Storage.

phpMyAdmin is a free and open-source database management application for MySQL and MariaDB. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install phpMyAdmin on Alma Linux.

MySQL is a free, open-source, relational database management platform powered by Oracle Cloud. This tutorial will show you how to install MySQL 8 on Ubuntu 22.04 server.

OTRS is a free, open-source, and one of the most popular service management or Ticket Request System applications to track general IT-related issues. This post will explain how to install OTRS on an Ubuntu 22.04 server.

The BeagleBoard.org Foundation has introduced BeagleY-AI, a single-board computer that emphasizes open-source hardware in an industry-standard form factor. This initiative represents a commitment to transparency and user empowerment in computing, reminiscent of the open nature of early computers. At the heart of BeagleY-AI is the Texas Instruments AM67A system-on-chip, featuring a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 CPU […]

Kubernetes is a free container orchestration tool that helps you achieve automated deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. This tutorial will show you how to set up the Kubernetes cluster on an Ubuntu 22.04 server.

Today, Sfera Labs has introduced two new additions to its Raspberry Pi server lineup: the Strato Pi Max XL and the Strato Pi Max XS. These devices also offer an optional integration with Zymbit’s Secure Compute Module, enhancing their security features. Both the Strato Pi Max XL and XS models from Sfera Labs feature the […]