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HP admits to backdoors in storage products

  • The Register; By Richard Chirgwin (Posted by hkwint on Jul 30, 2013 8:00 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: HP
Hewlett-Packard has agreed that there is an undocumented administrative account in its StoreVirtual products, and is promising a patch by 17 July.

IBM releases new PowerLinux server

  • ZDNet | Linux And Open Source Blog RSS; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by hkwint on Jul 30, 2013 7:27 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM, Linux
IBM continues to bet on Linux and open-source databases with its new PowerLinux 7R4 server.

Gnash Flash Player Still Advancing, But No New Release

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by hkwint on Jul 30, 2013 6:55 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Gnash, the Free Software Foundation project to have an open-source implementation of Adobe's Flash/SWF run-time, hasn't seen a release in almost exactly one and a half years. While it's been 18 months without a new release, development continues and there's been a number of features committed...

Suricata: The Snort Replacer (Part 3: Rules)

  • Linux.org; By Eric Hansen (Posted by kprojects on Jul 30, 2013 6:22 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
In the previous installment, we configured Suricata and successfully tested it via a simple rule that alerts on ICMP/ping packets being detected. In this part we will cover some aspects about rules. While this will mostly be a quick and dirty overview, it should help you on your way to making Suricata more fit for your network and your personal needs.

Mozilla Continues to Build the Web as a Platform for Security

Mozilla continues to build the Web as a platform for security which is a crucial part of our mission to move the Web forward as a platform for openness, innovation and opportunity for all. Today this platform for security is being advanced through Mozilla and BlackBerry collaborating on advanced automated security testing techniques known as fuzzing and Mozilla introducing Minion, an open source security testing platform intended to be used by developers and security professionals. These research efforts are some of the many ways Mozilla helps make the Web more secure and protect Firefox users.

Thwart online snooping with RetroShare for Linux

  • Doug Vitale Tech Blog; By Doug Vitale (Posted by DougVitale on Jul 30, 2013 5:17 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Introducing a new peer-to-peer networking paradigm: the "friend-to-friend" or F2F model in which all parties in a circle of trust approve and trust each other. Certificate-based authentication and strong SSL encryption are also utilized.

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Canonical announced last evening, July 29, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update was available for its Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, fixing five security vulnerabilities discovered by various developers in the Linux kernel packages.

Hackers wanted: Code for America deadline for 2014 Fellowship nears

There are only a few days left to apply. Code for America is looking for developers, designers, researchers, data scientists, and product managers for their 2014 Fellowship. It's a chance to make a difference with code, design, data, and much more.

The Old Reader to shut down – in 2 weeks

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Jul 30, 2013 3:14 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Maintainers of The Old Reader have announced that the service will no longer be accepting new registrations, the service itself will be shutting down in two weeks and existing accounts migrated to a private site.

Installing and Configuring Windows Emulator (WINE)

  • Linux.org; By DevynCJohnson (Posted by kprojects on Jul 30, 2013 2:17 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Many Linux users may find a program for Windows that lacks a Linux version or parody. As numerous Linux users believe, the program will not work on Linux. For the most part, they are wrong. There is a way to run a Windows program in Linux without using virtual machines. However, this trick does not work for some Windows applications, especially the newer programs.

New Red Hat OpenStack Admin course

  • Linux User & Developer; By Rob Zwetsloot (Posted by robzwets on Jul 30, 2013 1:20 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Get certified in OpenStack for Red Hat with a new course, get 10% off this and any other course with the special Summer Offer

Puppy Linux 5.7 Screenshot Tour

  • The Coding Studio (Posted by lqsh on Jul 30, 2013 12:23 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux
Another pup in the Precise series! This pup comes in two flavours, one for older hardware and/or those on dial-up Internet, the other for those with relatively modern hardware. The 'retro' flavour is an upgrade path for those who have used our 'Wary' Puppy, that targeted older PCs and analog modem dial-up - unlike most other Linux distributions, it continues to support a wide range of analog winmodems. It also has two web browsers, SeaMonkey and Opera, the latter preferred for PCs with less than 256 MB RAM.

How to create a self-extracting archive or installer in Linux

  • Xmodulo; By Dan Nanni (Posted by xmodulo on Jul 30, 2013 11:26 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
While a typical archive file relies on a separate program (e.g., tar, gunzip) to extract content from the archive file, a self-extracting (SFX) archive/installer is an executable itself, and can self-extract its content simply upon running. This tutorial describes how to create an SFX archive or installer in Linux

VirtualBox Headless Administration

  • BeginLinux.com; By Michael Griffith (Posted by aweber on Jul 30, 2013 10:29 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
VirtualBox is often used on the desktop through it's GUI interface. Sometimes, though, you'll need to run it on a headless server somewhere on the internet. Our demonstration setup today is on a Debian 7 (Wheezy) system, and the virtual machine we're creating will use a placeholder of $VM for it's name. We'll assume the guest OS is Debian, and that you've already installed VirtualBox itself to the host.

4 text editors for Linux

  • opensource.com (Posted by bob on Jul 30, 2013 9:31 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
This is a short list of my favorite graphical text editors for Linux that can be classified as IDE (integrated development environment). Here, I give the pros and cons of working with the following:  

Rugged ARM Linux touchpanel targets military apps

IEE announced a Linux-based thin-client touchpanel computer for harsh military environments. The highly rugged touchpanel computer is equipped with a 1GHz ARM processor and a 10.4-inch, 1024 x 768-pixel resistive touchscreen with backlighting and high contrast, and is usable over an extended temperature range of -46 to 70?C. IEE Inc. has yet to post full [...]

Open source taxi app designed to improve booking experience

  • opensource.com (Posted by bob on Jul 30, 2013 7:37 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Booking a cab is getting easier for passengers thanks to the advent of apps that let you book your cab straight from your smartphone. But implementing those apps and booking systems isn't always the easiest—or most affordable—option for taxi companies.

A year after trial, USPTO knocks out Apple’s “pinch to zoom” patent

Sunday night, Samsung lawyers filed an order just out from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that renders invalid one of Apple's key patents, No. 7,844,915, the so-called "pinch to zoom" patent. It's definitely a setback for Apple, which presented "pinch to zoom" at last year's trial as one of the innovations that was ripped off by a wide array of Samsung phones.

The Fantec decision: German court holds distributor responsible for FOSS compliance

Co-authors: Thomas Jansen and Hannes Meyle The GPLv2 continues to be the most widely used FOSS license, but has been rarely interpreted by courts. Most of these decisions have come from Germany as a result of the enforcement actions of Harold Welte. The recent Fantec decision in Germany is the latest such decision and provides guidance on the requirements for companies to manage their use of FOSS and the lack of ability to rely on statements from their suppliers.

Pentesting, digital forensics, and hacking distributions

If you are interested in penetration testing (pentesting), digital forensics, and in playing with software applications that hackers use on a daily basis, there are several Linux distributions that make those applications readily available. These are niche or specialty distributions that have been packaged with all the Free Software applications that the best in the business use, and that anybody with a computer can download and install.

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