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Encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read them. With almost no privacy in this digital generation of our's, encryption of our data is one of the most required tools. Most of the applications like gmail encrypt our data, but the data on your system is still unsecured and there are hackers or unauthorised users waiting to access them.

Recently there was some discussion about ways to ease the tired backs of kernel maintainers. Apparently the merge windows are times of great labor, and some folks wanted to alert contributors to some preferable code submission habits.

A bug in the most recent version of the Chrome allows miscreants to crash browser tabs simply by embedding a link with a malformed URL in the HTML of a page.

Welcome to the second installment of a monthly feature in which I explore how open source software and the open source way are used in the digital humanities. Every month I will take a look at open source tools you can use in your digital humanities research as well as at humanities research projects that are using open source tools today. I will also cover news about transparency and open exchange as well as how the other principles of the open source way being applied to the humanities. read more

If you often need to access a web server non-interactively in a terminal environment (e.g., download a file from the web, or test REST-ful web service APIs), chances are that wget or curl is your go-to tool. With extensive command-line options, both of these tools can handle a variety of non-interactive web access use cases […]Continue reading... The post What is a good alternative to wget or curl on Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to use custom http headers with wget How to download multiple files with wget How to access VNC remote desktop in web browser How to monitor a Linux server and desktop remotely from web browser How to sniff HTTP traffic from the command line on Linux

Networking in the cloud is a rapidly changing area as new concepts, technologies, and standards continue to emerge and mature. To learn more about the landscape, we caught up with Valentina Alaria, head of product and solutions marketing for PLUMgrid, a cloud networking provider. read more

Open source's influence extends far beyond sharing code, but this aspect sometimes goes unappreciated. For example, I previously wrote about how the special way of developing and collaborating associated with open source has come to also reflect many DevOps best practices, from transparency to iterative fast releases. I’d argue that it is many of these same default behaviors that are helping to make the Internet of Things a hot topic today. read more

Inforce unveiled a tiny “6501 Micro SoM” that runs Android on a quad-core 2.5GHz Snapdragon 805 SoC, and offers A/V, camera, USB, serial, and wireless I/O. Inforce Computing’s 6501 Micro SoM taps the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 SoC used by its IFC6540 Pico-ITX SBC, but in computer-on-module form. The 50 x 28mm module, which is […]

How many passwords do you have? Probably more than you can easily remember or comfortably manage on your own. And I’m willing to bet that you dread coming up with new ones when you sign up for something online. Jonathan LeBlanc of PayPal is on a mission is to replace the password with something more secure and easier to use. read more

Thanks to CoreOS, Kubernetes, Google's secret sauce for managing containers on its clusters, is on its way to your data center.

I love Bitcoin. It's not a secret; I've written about Bitcoin mining and cryptocurrency in the past. I'm the first to admit, however, that we're at the very beginning of the cryptocurrency age.

The operator of an underground marketplace hosted within the Tor network has reported a flaw in Tor that he claims is being used for an ongoing denial of service attack on the site.

Container-happy Linux startup CoreOS has launched a beta program for a new distribution of software designed to let enterprises run their own infrastructures the way large-scale software companies like Google run theirs.…

Thanks to CoreOS, Kubernetes, Google's secret sauce for managing containers on its clusters, is on its way to your data center.

Cube’s $399, Ubuntu-based “i7-CM” tablet has an Intel Core M CPU and an 11.6-inch HD display. Meanwhile, an Ubuntu-driven “MJ Tech” tablet has broken cover.

Interested in keeping track of what's happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more

ApacheCon is coming up, and within that massive conference there will be a glimmering gem: a forum dedicated to Spark. read more

Hi! I'm Ben Nuttall. I do development and outreach at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in my role as education developer advocate. read more

The BGP protocol runs over TCP, and as such, it inherits all the vulnerabilities of a TCP connection. For example, within a BGP session, an attacker may impersonate a legitimate BGP neighbor, and convince the BGP routers on the other end to share their routing information with the attacker. The problem occurs when the attacker […]Continue reading... The post How to secure BGP sessions using authentication on Quagga appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to enable user authentication for a Postfix SMTP server with SASL How to set up Samba as a Primary Domain Controller How to filter BGP routes in Quagga BGP router How to set up IPv6 BGP peering and filtering in Quagga BGP router How to set up a secure FTP service with vsftpd on Linux

Redmond is getting rid of the Do Not Track (DNT) browser privacy setting, citing evolving industry standards and the implementation of those standards. DNT will no longer be turned on by default in future versions of Microsoft's browsers, the company said.