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Friday, February 15th, 2013

    Time Event
    4:11p
    Bottomley: Owning your Windows 8 UEFI Platform
    James Bottomley describes
    the process     of taking control of a UEFI secure boot system.
    "Even if you only ever plan to run Windows or stock distributions of
    Linux that already have secure boot support, I’d encourage everybody who
    has a new UEFI secure boot platform to take ownership of it. The way you
    do this is by installing your own Platform Key. Once you have done this,
    you can use key database maintenance tools like keytool to edit all the
    keys on the Platform and move the platform programmatically from Setup Mode
    to User Mode and back again. This blog post describes how you go about
    doing this.    "
    5:12p
    Friday's security updates

    Debian has updated openconnect (code execution).

    openSUSE has updated blender (privilege escalation), flash-player (multiple vulnerabilities), gnome-online-accounts (information disclosure), inkscape (multiple vulnerabilities), rubygem-rdoc (cross-site scripting).

    SUSE has updated flash-player (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated kernel (10.04 LTS; denial of service), kernel-omap4 (11.10; multiple vulnerabilities), openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities), and qt4-x11 (multiple vulnerabilities).

    8:27p
    Ubuntu for phone to be previewed February 21
    Canonical has announced
    that a preview version of its distribution for phones will be made
    available on February 21. "The release also marks the start of
    a new era for Ubuntu, with true convergence between devices. When complete,
    the same Ubuntu code will deliver a mobile, tablet, desktop or TV
    experiences depending on the device it is installed on, or where it is
    docked. Ubuntu 13.10 (due in October) will include a complete entry-level
    smartphone experience.    "
    The initial images will be for Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 handsets.
    9:53p
    Opera moves to WebKit and V8

    Opera has announced that it will stop using its own rendering engine and will migrate its browser to WebKit and the V8 JavaScript engine—specifically, the Chromium flavor of WebKit. Opera Mobile will be ported first, with the desktop edition to follow later. The announcement downplays the significance of the change, saying: "Of course, a browser is much more than just a renderer and a JS engine, so this is primarily an "under the hood" change. Consumers will initially notice better site compatibility, especially with mobile-facing sites - many of which have only been tested in WebKit browsers."

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