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Linux Mint project leader Clem Lefebvre revealed in a blog post today that the popular Linux distribution’s servers were hacked on Saturday. During the “brief” intrusion, the hackers modified the ISO for the Cinnamon edition of Linux Mint 17.3 (Rosa) and also gained access to the distro’s forum database. Only this particular ISO is affected; other editions or releases are considered safe. Only ISO’s downloaded Saturday are potentially vulnerable.

The Linux Mint bad news keeps on coming. After a website hack that tricked users into downloading a fake Linux Mint ISO with a backdoor, now the developers are also warning users to change their passwords for the forums.

Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and usage of servers and services. It offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications, services and is designed to be very plug and play. Munin has a master/slave architecture in which the master connects to all the slaves at regular intervals and asks them for data which then is stored in RRD files.

VeraCrypt is a free, open source and cross platform data encryption tool. It's an alternative to TrueCrypt(project discontinued), the popular encryption tool for all Operating systems. VeraCrypt is an easy to use tool. In this article I will walk you through the complete process of installing & using VeraCrypt in any Linux distributions such as Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc. So let's get started.

virt-manager is a GUI-based virtual machine manager which allows you to create and manage (local or remote) virtual machines and containers via libvirt APIs. It supports multiple hypervisors such as KVM, QEMU, Xen, as well as LXC containers. While virt-manager is available in most distros' base repositories, the pre-built virt-manager package always falls behind the latest releases available from the official website.

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Here is a bad news coming from Linux Mint. Today Clem, member of Linux Mint community posted that ISOs of Linux Mint 17.3 were hacked on 20th of February, 2016. Yes! You heard that right. It's something that teaches lesson to all those who don't check MD5 hash to confirm that the image they downloaded are original and not hacked one. Well if you downloaded Linux Mint 17.3 then you should immediately do the following things to be safe.

Inpired by Amiibos, Tony DiCola makes NFC-enabled papercraft blocks that can be used to build inside Minecraft

It is a long time since we've shown you guys how to dual boot a GNU/Linux distribution and the latest Microsoft Windows operating system on your personal computer.

The Talos Principle is a very popular puzzle game from Croteam, and they already have a Windows build out that uses Vulkan. We Linux gamers will need to wait a few days, but it will be fun to see.

Now it just has to convince the other IoT foundations A new non-profit foundation dedicated to creating open standards for the Internet of Things (IoT) has launched.…

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at IBM's Quarks IoT development tool, the rise of open source textbooks, open source release of Google's TensorFlow Serving, and more. Open source news roundup for February 13 - 19, 2016 read more

ImpressCMS is an open source Content Management System (CMS) for building and maintaining dynamic web sites, written in PHP and using a popular open source MySQL database system for content storage.

After the accident, a call went out in the San Francisco Bay area, and in her former home of Colorado as well, to make this past Tuesday, February 16, Code for Aubrey day. Developers and coders throughout the Bay Area and elsewhere dedicated all of the code they wrote on that day to Ms. Howell, “to show her our support and to send her good vibes,” and then post comments and screenshots of their commits to Twitter using the hashtag #codeforaubrey. Her fellow coders, friends and supporters have also been donating generously to a Go Fund Me account set up to help the family.

Post bellow presumes that your testing Swift storage is on VM emulating Storage Server (192.169.142.157) which has 3 devices attached /dev/vdb,/dev/vdc,/dev/vdd what allows to place in answer file entries like bellow. In case you need not just a POC, but real HA Swift deployment install RDO with CONFIG_INSTALL_SWIFT=n and make manual deployment on your management network - one Swift proxy node and at least 3 Swift Storage nodes.

Ubuntu is to work on adding support for a new fingerprint authentication API in mobile builds

When Jordan Gwyther started Larping.org, a website that promotes his favorite hobby, he didn't expect it would lead to him being sued for patent infringement over foam arrows. And when he spoke out about the lawsuit, neither he nor his attorney saw what was coming next: the patent-owner filed papers in court last week asking for a temporary restraining order (TRO) that would keep Gwyther quiet.

WebGoat is a deliberately insecure, Java web application designed for the sole purpose of teaching web application security lessons.

Shadwen looks awesome, and I'm going to be honest I hadn't heard of it until it was sent it. Shadwen is a true stealth game where the only rule is to remain unseen. Stay hidden – or the ruthless guards will kill you on sight! Looks like it's coming to Linux too.

From solar power packs and ePaper displays to near-field 3D gesture control, here are ten unmissable add-ons for your Pi.