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This week, we take a look back at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona and some of the news, announcements, and observations from the event.

Attackers are aggressively attacking Joomla-based websites by exploiting two critical vulnerabilities patched last week. The flaws allow the creation of accounts with elevated privileges on websites built with the popular Joomla content management system, even if account registration is disabled.

The state of Georgia was nationally recognized last month by the National Association of State CIOs for its Accessible Platform Initiative. The initiative is the first step in Georgia's drive to improve access to all its digital properties. read more

The US government has updated and published a new list of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a move perhaps long-overdue which will protect cybersecurity professionals from prosecution when reverse-engineering products for research purposes.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Linux Malware Detect (LMD) with Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV). I will use CentOS 7 as the operating system.

Earlier this year, ActiveState conducted a survey of users who had downloaded our distribution of Perl over the prior year and a half. We received 356 responses–99 commercial users and 257 individual users. I've been using Perl for a long time, and I expected that lengthy experience would be typical of the Perl community. Our survey results, however, tell a different story. read more

If you already have OpenStack administration skills, or are considering pursuing them, you’ll want to take note of some surprising research reported in conjunction with OpenStack Summit in Barcelona last week.

Imagine smart cars talking directly to each other so they don't crash. Imagine hooking your smart phone into a giant mesh of phone video streams at a stadium event, so you can watch your event from multiple perspectives. Imagine smart factory devices that manage themselves for better safety and efficiency. Imagine intelligent phones, and other intelligent devices, communicating directly at close range so they don't bog down the Internet or cell phone networks.

We recently interviewed Kanika Murarka on how she uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine. The series profiles Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done.

This article is intended to be a very high-level discussion of Linux filesystem concepts. It is not intended to be a low-level description of how a particular filesystem type, such as EXT4, works, nor is it intended to be a tutorial of filesystem commands. read more

The second release in the Linux Mint 18.x series, i.e., Linux Mint 18.1, will be released later this year in November and December. Derived from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system, this Mint release will be supported until 2021.

Every time you turn around, it seems like there’s a new open source project which might be of value to a cloud administrator. A huge number of these projects fall under the umbrella of OpenStack, the open source cloud toolkit. And it may seem impossible to keep up. Fortunately, there are plenty of tools out there.......

The Sabayon project has always brought us a modern, rolling, reliable and easy to use GNU/Linux distribution based on the Gentoo operating system, which is known for being notoriously difficult to install.

This year's API Strategy and Practice (known as APIStrat)—to be held in Boston on November 2-4—has a strong open source component running throughout the event, and with little wonder. Successful API strategies more often than not either contribute new open source projects, or draw on the rich source of tools already built by the open source community. read more

Finally Overcloud deployment start to initialize mistral work flow in QuickStart environment. Memory allocation as 7 GB for PCS HA Controllers and 6.7 GB for each compute overcloud node (1 VCPU by default for any node running in overcloud) seems to be safe to pass phases 5.X of overcloud deployment with QuickStart.

Now in its seventh year, MozFest is the world’s go-to event for the free and open Internet movement. Part meeting place for like-minded individuals keen to share ideas; part playground for Web enthusiasts, MozFest is a buzzy hive of activity.

IT Pro had a conversation with Scott Hanselman, who gave a keynote address on Thursday at All Things Open, as well as an afternoon presentation on .NET Core. We talked about Microsoft's approach to open source.

Keeping your software up to date is one of the first and most important things you need to do after getting a VPS. Many critical vulnerabilities are patched by the time they become public so if you do not update your software frequently then your server is at a big risk of being exploited. In this tutorial, we will show you how to update the system software on your Linux VPS running CentOS or Ubuntu as an operating system.

All appearances are that Microsoft is no longer an outsider within the enterprise open source community, but a full-fledged citizen.

A new major version of the powerful, free, cross-platform and open source FFmpeg multimedia framework has been released for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.