Wieder einmal war das Arch Linux Community-Paketarchiv AUR Ziel eines Angriffs, bei den über 400 Pakete mit einer Dependency Credential Stealer Malware infiziert wurden.

A new Linux kernel security vulnerability, Dirty Frag, has been uncovered and allows a local user to escalate its privileges to gain root access.

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If you haven’t check in with Ubuntu’s app prompting feature for a while, there’s more reason to do so in the latest release. Recent improvements to the snap-focused security feature, which Canonical’s Oliver Calder has shared an update on, aims to “empower users” by letting them grant apps system and hardware access at runtime rather than retrospectively. Android or iOS use similar prompts, showing screen modals asking if users if they want to “allow Acme App to access the camera” with options to deny or “only while using the app”. Nifty stuff on mobile, but on a desktop? Well, Canonical […]

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Bugs und Sicherheitslücken in Software werden heutzutage vorwiegend von KI gejagt. cURL-Entwickler Daniel Stenberg sieht in den vergangenen Monaten eine Zunahme der Qualität der Einreichungen.

XOrg Server 21.1.22 and Xwayland 24.1.10 have been released today to address a total of five security vulnerabilities. Users are urged to update their systems as soon as possible.

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Ubuntu 26.04's sudo-rs now includes a keypress toggle for password feedback. Switch between visible asterisks and silent input without editing a config file.

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Motorola und die GrapheneOS Foundation arbeiten zusammen an der Entwicklung von Smartphones, die mit dem Android-Custom-ROM GrapheneOS ausgeliefert werden.

Die Android Developer Verification will von Google nicht zertifizierte Apps unterbinden. Liegt darin eine Chance für alternative mobile Betriebssysteme?

The official Xubuntu website briefly served Windows malware to users trying to download the distro between 18-19 October. ISOs were not affected.

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Doing anything right now? Oh, you’re reading this – appreciated – but once you’re done go and install the pending update to Rsync, pushed out to all supported versions of Ubuntu desktop and server this week. Rsync is a command-line tool preinstalled in all versions and flavours of Ubuntu. It’s used for data-efficient copying and synchronising of files between locations, be it local or remote. You might not (knowingly) use it (it’s not a GUI app) it’s there, on your system. And the fact it’s there is important. This week, security researchers at Google disclosed major vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu […]

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Canonical released new Linux kernel security updates for Ubuntu 21.10, 20.04 LTS, and 18.04 LTS releases to address a total of 17 vulnerabilities. All users are urged to update their installations as soon as possible!

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Canonical is currently promoting a beta Ubuntu Pro for Desktop programme through the Software & Updates app on Ubuntu LTS releases. But what is it?

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The CentOS Linux 8 operating system series reached end of life on December 31st, 2021, and it's time to migrate to an alternative OS like Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux OS.

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