Symantec CA has been found to have issued a large number of problematic certificates in the past few years. Chrome 70 will stop trusting Symantec’s old certificate. The beta version of Chrome Canary has stopped...
Barry Kauler announces that the new Linux distribution Quirky has released version 8.6. Quirky is a sister project of Puppy Linux, a Linux distribution created with a custom tool called Woof. The underlying infrastructure, such as startup...
Tails OS is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity and helps you...
Wine (the abbreviation of “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a compatible layer that can run Windows applications on a variety of POSIX-compliant operating systems such as Linux, macOS, and BSD. Wine is not like...
Mozilla has disabled 23 Firefox add-ons that can snoop on users and send data to remote servers. Blocked add-ons include “Web Security,” a security-centric Firefox add-on that has more than 220,000 users, after posting the...
Microsoft researchers said they plan to open source open network simulators, a system that simulates the entire network to power the company’s hyperscale cloud platform. The company has been using it to test changes made to the...
In response to the invasion of Apple server, Apple said in a statement today that no personal data was stolen. There were reports last night that a high school student in Australia had repeatedly invaded...
uBlock Origin author Raymond Hill and German security privacy blogger Mike Kuketz report that a popular Firefox extension will quietly collect user browsing history. The add-on is called Web Security, with more than 220,000 installations and even recommendations...
According to the Theage reported that a juvenile court in Australia confirmed that a boy in a private school in Melbourne had repeatedly broken into Apple secure computer system, and is currently facing criminal charges....
If you are looking for a 100% free kernel for the GNU/Linux distribution, you can now try the latest release of Linux-Libre 4.18 without any copyright risk. GNU Linux-Libre 4.18 is based on the just-released Linux kernel...
COINHIVE, which was born in the second half of last year, is a pioneer in online mining scripts, but it also allows many malicious websites to use the user’s computer for mining. The analysis...
The Internet Engineering Steering Committee (IETF) released the official version of TLS 1.3 last week to enhance the security of network encrypted connections. TLS 1.3 is a significant update to encryption technology that fundamentally...
To make it easier for developers to write drivers for Windows, Microsoft released an open source driver module framework (DMF) yesterday. This new framework will allow developers to write structured and straightforward Windows Driver Framework...
Debian has a very high reputation and influence in the open source world. Many GNU/Linux systems, including Ubuntu, are based on Debian. The Debian system was released on August 16, 1993, so today the Debian...
