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Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 4:45p |
Tuesday's security advisories Fedora has updated cups-filters
(F22: code execution), firefox (F22;
F21: multiple vulnerabilities), libssh (F22: denial of service),
openssl (F22; F21: certificate verification botch), openvas-cli (F22: sql injection), openvas-libraries (F22: sql injection), openvas-manager (F22: sql injection), openvas-scanner (F22: sql injection), pcre (F22: two vulnerabilities), polkit (F22: multiple vulnerabilities), rubygem-moped (F22; F21: denial of service), and wesnoth (F22; F21: information leak).
openSUSE has updated roundcubemail (13.1: multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated kernel
(RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities). | | 7:16p |
NSA releases Linux-based open source infosec tool (ITNews) ITNews reportsthat the US National Security Agency is in the process of releasing its systems integrity management platform - SIMP. " SIMP helps to keep networked systems compliant with security standards, the NSA said, and should form part of a layered, "defence-in-depth" approach to information security.
NSA said it released the tool to avoid duplication after US government
departments and other groups tried to replicate the product in order to
meet compliance requirements set by US Defence and intelligence
bodies." Currently only RHEL and CentOS versions 6.6 and 7.1 are supported. | | 10:17p |
How to win the copyleft fight—without litigation (Opensource.com) Opensource.com has an interviewwith Bradley Kuhn. " I continued on in my professional career, which included developing and supporting proprietary software, but I found that the lack of source code and/or the ability to rebuild it myself constantly hampered my ability to do my job. Proprietary software companies today are more careful to give "some open source"; thus, many technology professionals don't realize until it's too late how crippling proprietary software can be when you rely on it every day. In the mid 1990s, hardly any business software license gave us software freedom, so denying our rights to practice our profession (i.e, fix software) made many of us hate our jobs. I considered leaving the field of software entirely because I disliked working with proprietary software so much.
Those experiences made me a software freedom zealot. I made a vow that I never wanted any developer or sysadmin to feel the constraints of proprietary software licensing, which limits technologists by what legal agreements their company's lawyers can negotiate rather than their technical skill." |
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