Tag: Security

• August 21, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  444 – The News is HUGE!

  First up in the news: Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code, Google Search is playing Monopoly, Wordstar7 is open sourced, SuSE goes way long, Chrome blocks uBlock, GitLab is on the market and Funtoo is back (sort of)

  In security and privacy: Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers, and there are lots of zeros attacking Mac and Linux browsers

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill is broken down Joe goes virtual, Moss has stopped watching, Majid is in India and will be back next month.

• August 7, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  443 – Wilma Has Arrived

  First up in the news: Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” released, Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source, Intel suffers stock losses, Intel admits to damage on 13th and 14th gen processors, Funtoo calls it quits, and SerpentOS makes its first appearance

  In security and privacy: SecureBoot is broken on over 200 computers from 5 major vendors, new Android malware drains bank accounts and wipes your device afterwards, and TGRat attacks Linux;

• July 27, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  442 – AMD Support is Cachy(ing) On

  First up in the news: Mint 22 update, Red Hat may replace GRUB, Fedora drops X11, CachyOS adds AMD support, Apple approves PC emulator, SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand, EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11

  In security and privacy: CrowdStrike broke Linux and nobody noticed, Firefox's New Controversial Feature

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill puts his foot down, Joe is working on magnetism, Moss has new toys,

  In our Innards section: We talk about Pine64 products

  And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

• July 10, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  441 – Mint’s Back and Rocking

  First up in the news: Mint 22 Beta Released, Mint Monthly News – June, Firefox has a Weather tab, Seattle computer collection is being auctioned, Proton adds Docs to Proton Drive, Linux runs on Google Drive

  In security and privacy: KDE Plasma Flaw Opens Door to Unauthorized System Access

  Then in our Wanderings: Majid has overdosed on Schadenfreude, Bill screams at OnlyOffice, Joe has fun with his 3D printer, Moss makes a mess of things

• June 12, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  439 – Doin’ The Proton Dance

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition, Internet Archive Hit With DDoS Attacks, ProtonPass is released for MacOS and Linux, and new features come to VLC

  In security and privacy: Linux Exploit found by US Federal agency

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill distro-hops, Moss has returned from his musical excursion, and Eric deals with multiple security issues.