Friday, August 30th, 2013

Time	Event
2:31p	Friday's security updates Debian has updated icedove (multiple vulnerabilities). Gentoo has updated mysql (multiple, multiple, multiple vulnerabilities) and wireshark (also multiple vulnerabilities). Both updates are corrections to yesterday's updates, which misidentified several CVE numbers. Mandriva has updated asterisk (multiple vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated ruby (bad HTTPS configuration) and xen (multiple vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated kernel 2.6.39 (OL5; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities) and kernel 2.6.32 (OL5; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities). Slackware has updated gnutls (information disclosure) and php (SSL server spoofing). SUSE has updated MySQL (multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
3:16p	Villa: Thoughts on the CC Summit Luis Villa has posted a set of notes from the Creative Commons Global Summit. "Conversation around the revised CC 4.0 license drafts was mostly quite positive. The primary expressed concerns were about fragmentation and cross-jurisdictional compatibility. I understand these concerns better now, having engaged in several good discussions about them with folks at the conference. That said, I came away only confirmed on my core position on CC’s license drafting: when in doubt, CC should always err on the side of creating a global license and enabling low-complexity sharing." (Comment on this)
9:18p	Linux.conf.au 2014 miniconfs announced The linux.conf.au (LCA) team has announced the selection of LCA 2014's miniconfs. As the name suggests, miniconfs are smaller, one-day conference events that are organized in conjunction with LCA. Each miniconf is focused on a specialized topic and selects in own program. The 2014 selections include the kernel, open government, browsers, astronomy, multimedia, and more. LCA 2014 is scheduled for January 6–10 in Perth, Western Australia. (Comment on this)

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