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Friday, November 14th, 2014

    Time Event
    12:53a
    Linux Security Distros Compared: Tails vs. Kali vs. Qubes (Lifehacker)
    Three security-oriented Linux distributions are compared and contrasted over at Lifehacker. The three (Tails, Kali Linux, and Qubes OS) have distinct use cases that are surveyed in the article. "The crux of Tails is anonymity. While it has cryptographic tools in place, its main purpose is to anonymize everything you're during online. This is great for most people, but it doesn't give you the freedom to do stupid things. If you log into your Facebook account under your real name, it's still going to be obvious who you are and remaining anonymous on an online community is a lot harder than it seems."
    4:25p
    Security advisories for Friday

    Fedora has updated aircrack-ng (F20; F19: multiple vulnerabilities), gnutls (F20: three vulnerabilities), and python3 (F19: three vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated claws-mail (M4: SSL certificate verification botch), curl (information leak), flash-player-plugin (many vulnerabilities), getmail (three vulnerabilities), kdebase4-workspace (M3: privilege escalation), libreoffice (M4; M3: two vulnerabilities), and ruby (denial of service).

    openSUSE has updated openssl (13.2: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated kernel 2.6.39 (OL6; OL5: two vulnerabilities) and kernel 3.8.13 (OL7; OL6: two vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated flash-player (SLE12: three vulnerabilities) and java-1_7_0-openjdk (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities).

    8:25p
    Stable kernel updates
    Greg Kroah-Hartman has released three stable kernels; 3.17.3, 3.14.24, and 3.10.60. All of them contain lots of
    important fixes throughout the tree.
    9:33p
    CyanogenMod 11 M12
    CyanogenMod has announced a new
    milestone release     of the 11.0 "KitKat" branch. The announcement also
    looks forward to the 12.0 "Lollipop" branch. "No doubt the big news at the beginning of November was the release of the Android 5.0 Lollipop source code. AOSP began seeing the code on the 3rd, and completed the majority of the push on the 4th, with some remaining stragglers seeing code uploaded midday on the 12th. Work on CM12 began in earnest at the end of last week, and you can now successfully sync and build the work in progress against a handful of devices."

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