Friday, October 2nd, 2015

Time	Event
3:47p	Friday's security updates CentOS has updated thunderbird (C6; C5; C7: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated binutils (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated freeimage (F22; F21: integer overflow), golang (F22; F21: multiple vulnerabilities), jakarta-commons-httpclient (F22; F21: denial of service), and openjpeg2 (F22; F21: use-after-free vulnerability). Mageia has updated thunderbird (M5: multiple vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated bind (11.4: denial of service). Oracle has updated thunderbird (O6; O7: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated mod_proxy_fcgi (RHEL6: denial of service). Scientific Linux has updated thunderbird (SL5, 6, 7: multiple vulnerabilities). Slackware has updated mozilla-thunderbird (14.0, 14.1, current: multiple vulnerabilities), php (14.0, 14.1, current: multiple vulnerabilities), and seamonkey (14.0, 14.1, current: multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated kernel (12.04: multiple vulnerabilities) and linux-ti-omap4 (12.04: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
11:00p	Ad-blocking extension AdBlock sold to new owner Many online media outlets are reporting the news that ownership of the popular ad-blocking browser extension AdBlock has been sold to a new owner. Not to be confused with similarly named projects AdBlock Plus and AdBlock Edge, this AdBlock announced the news of the sale to its users in a pop-up window. TheNextWeb reports that AdBlock employees refused to identify the buyer. In related news, the new owner has decided to join the "Acceptable Ads" whitelisting program run by rival AdBlock Plus. An announcement on the AdBlock Plus site confirms the move, and notes that an "independent review board" will now decide which advertisements are included the Acceptable Ads whitelist. Public nominations for the board are said to be open. (Comment on this)

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