Μαρτίου 2010 – Don't fear the penguin

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Linux Weekly News

[$] Power-efficient workqueues

Power-efficient workqueues were first introduced in the 3.11 kernel release; since then, fifty or so subsystems and drivers have been updated to use them. These workqueues can be especially useful on handheld devices (like tablets and smartphones), where power is at a premium. ARM platforms with power-efficient workqueues enabled on Ubuntu and Android have s […]

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Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel and libmspack), Fedora (groovy18 and nasm), openSUSE (curl, java-1_8_0-openjdk, libplist, shutter, and thunderbird), Oracle (git, groovy, kernel, and mercurial), Red Hat (rh-git29-git), SUSE (openvswitch), and Ubuntu (c-ares, clamav, firefox, libmspack, and openjdk-7).

jake

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (git), Debian (firefox-esr and mariadb-10.0), Gentoo (bind and tnef), Mageia (kauth, kdelibs4, poppler, subversion, and vim), openSUSE (fossil, git, libheimdal, libxml2, minicom, nodejs4, nodejs6, openjpeg2, openldap2, potrace, subversion, and taglib), Oracle (git and kernel), Red Hat (git, groovy, httpd24-httpd, a […]

jake

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 17, 2017

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 17, 2017 is available.

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Stable kernel updates

Stable kernels 4.12.8, 4.9.44, 4.4.83, and 3.18.66 have been released. Each contains important fixes throughout the tree and users should upgrade.

ris

[$] A canary for timer-expiration functions

A bug that allows an attacker to overwrite a function pointer in the kernel opens up a relatively easy way to compromise the kernel—doubly so, if an attacker simply needs to wait for the kernel use the compromised pointer. There are various techniques that can be used to protect kernel function pointers that are set at either compile or initialization time, […]

jake

Thank you from Krita

Earlier this month we reported that the Krita Foundation was having some financial difficulties. The Krita Foundation has an update with thanks to all who donated. "So, even though we’re going to get another accountant’s bill of about 4500 euros, we’ve still got quite a surplus! As of this moment, we have €29,657.44 in our savings account! That means th […]

ris

[$] Reducing Python's startup time

The startup time for the Python interpreter has been discussed by the core developers and others numerous times over the years; optimization efforts are made periodically as well. Startup time can dominate the execution time of command-line programs written in Python, especially if they import a lot of other modules. Python startup time is worse than some ot […]

jake

Security updates for Wednesday

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox, httpd, and java-1.7.0-openjdk), Fedora (cups-filters, potrace, and qpdf), Mageia (libsoup and mingw32-nsis), openSUSE (kernel), Oracle (httpd, kernel, spice, and subversion), Red Hat (httpd, java-1.7.1-ibm, and subversion), Scientific Linux (httpd), Slackware (xorg), SUSE (java-1_8_0-openjdk), and Ubuntu […]

ris

Solus 3 released

The Solus distribution project has announced the availability of Solus 3. "This is the third iteration of Solus since our move to become a rolling release operating system. Unlike the previous iterations, however, this is a release and not a snapshot. We’ve now moved away from the 'regular snapshot' model to accommodate the best hybrid approac […]

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SANS Internet Storm Center

tshark 2.4 New Feature - Command Line Export Objects, (Fri, Aug 18th) Αύγουστος 19, 2017

There is nothing new about Wireshark releasing an update; however, the new 2.4 branch has new feature that is quite useful that I have been waiting to be able to use for a while. In case you missed it, tshark now has the ability to Export Objects. I have tested the export using large pcap files with multiple objects and tshark does a good job "dumping […]

EngineBox Malware Supports 10+ Brazilian Banks, (Fri, Aug 18th) Αύγουστος 18, 2017

1. Introduction

ISC Stormcast For Friday, August 18th 2017 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=5632, (Fri, Aug 18th) Αύγουστος 18, 2017

Maldoc with auto-updated link, (Thu, Aug 17th) Αύγουστος 17, 2017

Yesterday, while hunting, I found another malicious document that (ab)used a Microsoft Word feature: auto-update of links. This feature is enabled by default for any newly created document (that was the case for my Word 2016 version). If you add links to external resources like URLs, Word will automatically update them without any warning or prompt.

ISC Stormcast For Thursday, August 17th 2017 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=5630, (Thu, Aug 17th) Αύγουστος 17, 2017

Analysis of a Paypal phishing kit, (Wed, Aug 16th) Αύγουστος 16, 2017

They are plenty of phishing kits in the wild that try to lure victims to provide their credentials. Services like Paypal are nice targets and we can find new fake pages almost daily. Sometimes, the web server isn&#x27t properly configured and the source code is publicly available. A few days ago, I was lucky to find a ZIP archive containing a very nice p […]

ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 16th 2017 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=5628, (Wed, Aug 16th) Αύγουστος 16, 2017

(Banker(GoogleChromeExtension)).targeting("Brazil"), (Tue, Aug 15th) Αύγουστος 15, 2017

Introduction

Malspam pushing Trickbot banking Trojan, (Tue, Aug 15th) Αύγουστος 15, 2017

Introduction

ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, August 15th 2017 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=5626, (Tue, Aug 15th) Αύγουστος 15, 2017

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