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"HackingTeam's investigation has determined that sufficient code was released to permit anyone to deploy the software against any target of their choice"... After a week of silence, the CEO of Hacking Team has spoken out in defense of his company's business practices.

In 2007, GlusterFS revolutionized the way large, distributed storage solutions were implemented across organizations—anyone could now use commodity hardware to create distributed storage solutions for media streaming, data analysis and other data intensive tasks using GlusterFS. Red Hat acquired GlusterFS in 2011. Recently one of the founders of GlusterFS, Anand Babu Periasamy, announced a new open source project, Minio. Minio is designed to enable application developers to build their own cloud storage. I recently interviewed Anand Babu to learn more about Minio.  read more

Vim is a versatile, lightweight text editor on Linux. While its initial learning curve can be overwhelming for an average Linux user, its benefits are completely worthy. As far as the functionality goes, Vim is fully customizable by means of plugins. Due to its high level of configuration, though, you need to spend some time […]Continue reading... The post How to manage Vim plugins appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to open a large text file on Linux How to turn Vim into a full-fledged IDE What is a good text editor on Linux? What are some obscure but useful Vim commands

Hacking Team has warned that a devastating data breach it suffered will allow its spying tools to be used by criminals and terrorists.

The KDE Latin America Summit – LaKademy – has found its way towards establishing a regular and consolidated venue for discussing actions, making contributions of many facets, and supporting newcomers for KDE in Brazil and Latin America. The 3rd edition of LaKademy took place from 3rd to 6th June, 2015, at the Information Technology Offices of Federal University of Bahia, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

This article is to explain what OpenPOWER application binary interface (ABI)introduces to improve performance of function call. Different from the 64-bit PowerPC ELF ABI Supplement 1.9 (ELF ABI v1), OpenPOWER ABI gets rid of function descriptor and doesn't require callers to initialize environment any more. Aligned with current industry practice, it makes the callees set up the TOC pointer in place, introduces dual entry to ensure the establishment as required, and uses trampoline to support lexical nesting function calls.

The use-after-free() programming flaws, for which no patches exist, are identified as CVE-2015-5122 and CVE-2015-5123. They are similar to the CVE-2015-5119 Flash bug patched last week. The 5122 and 5123 bugs let malicious Flash files execute code on victims' computers and install malware. The bugs are present in the Windows, Linux and OS X builds of the plugin.

'Core quality' the focus of latest preview build. Microsoft has released a new preview build of Windows 10 Mobile, the version of the new OS for phones, and it has the same build number as the current version for desktop PCs.…

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at Project Ascension's new user interface, new games out for Linux, and more. Open gaming roundup for July 4 - 11, 2015 read more

I had the pleasure of interviewing Rosaria Silipo about her upcoming talk at OSCON: Advanced analytics for the Internet of Things. I recently taught a group of librarians about Internet of Things and how we can use it to provide better services to our patrons, so when I saw Rosaria's talk summary I thought it was right up my alley. read more

OpenELEC launched a version of a WeTek media player preloaded with Kodi-ready OpenELEC Linux, and a choice of DVB-S2, DVB-C/T/T2, or ATSC broadcast tuners. The WeTek OpenELEC (Limited Edition) Linux media player is an OpenELEC-optimized version of the Android-based WeTek Play media player, which typically offers OpenELEC Linux as one of its alternative downloads. The […]

Mozilla has rolled out a new version of its Firefox browser, an update that includes patches for four critical security vulnerabilities and several less-severe bugs. IN all, Firefox 39 patches 13 vulnerabilities, including two high-risk bugs and six moderate-level ones. The most dangerous vulnerabilities, however, include a pair of use-after-free bugs in one part of the browser and another in a separate component, as well as a number of memory corruption flaws.

Just when you thought you were safe, a new hacking toy comes along and rocks your world. Imagine a tool exists that lets hackers pluck encryption keys from your laptop right out of the air. You can't stop it by connecting to protected Wi-Fi networks or even disabling Wi-Fi completely. Turning off Bluetooth also won't help you protect yourself.

Ben Balter is the Government Evangelist at GitHub—he's encouraging the use of open source philosophies in government entities. Prior to joining GitHub, he was a fellow in the Office of the U.S. Chief Information Officer within the executive office of the President................

Google has reduced spam reaching inboxes to a fraction of a percent, but in the process sometimes misclassifies bulk-mailed messages like monthly statements and ticket receipts. It's a big problem for large bulk emailers of legitimate messages. To deal with it, Google has created a toolset to help those mailers figure out what's happening to their messages.

Many companies, including leading corporations and financial institutions, think that a website is just a "webpage" in the middle of nowhere, without much value for them or for the hackers. They think that a hacked website can be quickly and easily repaired, and nobody will ever remember the incident. They are seriously wrong.

This week's Top 5 looks at Linux in the military, text editors, text tools, document tools, and Python and Raspberry Pi for education.

Will the keyboard click enough? Is it small enough? Is it free enough? Find out below.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a million lines of code for Linux, more open source software from Google and Microsoft, a new tiny computer for education, and more! Open source news: July 4 to July 10, 2015 read more

This article describes the installation of Proftpd with TLS on Ubuntu 15.04. FTP is a insecure protocol as passwords and data are transferred unencrypted. The whole communication can be encrypted by using TLS, thus making FTP a safe protocol to transfer files. This tutorials shows you how to setup a TLS enabled FTP server on Ubuntu.