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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016

    Time Event
    12:12a
    The US government's "Cybersecurity National Action Plan"
    The Obama administration has put out a
    plan     for how it would like to make the net a safer place. There are a
    lot of topics covered here; toward the end it also mentions that "the
    Government will work with organizations such as the Linux Foundation’s Core
    Infrastructure Initiative to fund and secure commonly used internet
    'utilities' such as open-source software, protocols, and standards. Just
    as our roads and bridges need regular repair and upkeep, so do the
    technical linkages that allow the information superhighway to flow.    "
    2:54p
    LibreOffice 5.1 released
    The LibreOffice 5.1 release is available. "LibreOffice 5.1's user interface has been completely
    reorganized, to provide faster and more convenient access to its most used
    features. A new menu has been added to each of the applications: Style
    (Writer), Sheet (Calc) and Slide (Impress and Draw). In addition, several
    icons and menu commands have been repositioned based on user
    preferences.    " See this
    page     for (a little) more information and some videos.
    3:08p
    Prototype of Linux-powered microwave oven
    [Prototype]
    3:14p
    SourceForge dumps DevShare
    The SourceForge hosting site has announced that it has a new owner (BIZX, LLC, along with Slashdot) and that it will be getting rid of the controversial DevShare program, which was covered here in 2013. "As of last week, the DevShare program was completely eliminated. The DevShare program delivered installer bundles as part of the download for participating projects. We want to restore our reputation as a trusted home for open source software, and this was a clear first step towards that. We’re more interested in doing the right thing than making extra short-term profit."

    5:06p
    Security advisories for Wednesday

    Arch Linux has updated kscreenlocker (restriction bypass).

    CentOS has updated sos (C6: information leak).

    Fedora has updated claws-mail (F22: stack-based buffer overflow), imlib2 (F22: denial of service), python-pillow (F23: denial of service), and webkitgtk4 (F22: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated ffmpeg (multiple vulnerabilities), flash-player-plugin (multiple vulnerabilities), jasper (denial of service), and nettle (improper cryptographic calculations).

    openSUSE has updated jasper (13.2: denial of service), krb5 (13.2: three vulnerabilities), and tiff (13.2: three vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated sos (OL6: information leak).

    Red Hat has updated openstack-swift (RHELOSP7: denial of service) and python-django (RHELOSP7; RHELOSP5 for RHEL7; RHELOSP5 for RHEL6: information disclosure).

    Scientific Linux has updated sos (SL6: information leak).

    SUSE has updated flash-player (SLE12-SP1; SLE11-SP4: multiple vulnerabilities) and java-1_7_1-ibm (SLE12-SP1; SLE11-SP4: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated nginx (15.10, 14.04: denial of service).

    7:08p
    [$] A Linux-powered microwave oven
    Scratching an itch is a recurring theme in presentations at linux.conf.au. As the open-hardware movement gains strength, more and more of these itches relate to the physical world, not just the digital. David Tulloh used his presentation [WebM] on the “Linux Driven Microwave” to discuss how annoying microwave ovens can be and to describe his project to build something less irritating.

    Click below (subscribers only) for the full report from Neil Brown.

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