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[tom's hardware] AMD 'Zenbleed' Bug Leaks Data From Zen 2 Ryzen, EPYC CPUs: Most Patches Coming Q4 (Updated)

[tom's hardware] AMD 'Zenbleed' Bug Leaks Data From Zen 2 Ryzen, EPYC CPUs: Most Patches Coming Q4 (Updated)

Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google Information Security, posted today about a new vulnerability he independently found in AMD's Zen 2 processors. The 'Zenbleed' vulnerability spans the entire Zen 2 product stack, including AMD's EPYC data center processors and the Ryzen 3000/4000/5000 CPUs.

[TheRegister] RIP Kevin Mitnick: Former most-wanted hacker dies at 59

[TheRegister] RIP Kevin Mitnick: Former most-wanted hacker dies at 59

Kevin Mitnick, probably the world's most-famous computer hacker – and subsequently writer, public speaker, and security consultant – has succumbed to pancreatic cancer. He was 59.

[Qualys] CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent

[Qualys] CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent

The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent.

[STH] Intel Exiting the PC Business as it Stops Investment in the Intel NUC

[STH] Intel Exiting the PC Business as it Stops Investment in the Intel NUC

Some huge news. Intel has started to notify its ecosystem, saying that it will stop direct investment in the Next Unit of Compute (NUC) business.

[9to5linux] Mozilla Thunderbird 115 Released with Supernova UI, OpenPGP Improvements

[9to5linux] Mozilla Thunderbird 115 Released with Supernova UI, OpenPGP Improvements

This release introduces an intuitive app menu, sortable folder modes, modern cards view, and improved Calendar design.

[VyOS] Project July 2023 Update

[VyOS] Project July 2023 Update

In June, there was a lot of work done on VyOS. Why is this update so short, then? One reason is that VyOS 1.4 is now on the way to becoming the new LTS release, and there's a lot of work on smoke tests and refactoring that is required to stabilize it.

[THN] U.S. Government Agencies' Emails Compromised in China-Backed Cyber Attack

[THN] U.S. Government Agencies' Emails Compromised in China-Backed Cyber Attack

An unnamed Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency in the U.S. detected anomalous email activity in mid-June 2023, leading to Microsoft's discovery of a new China-linked espionage campaign targeting two dozen organizations.

[SUSE] Announces Free RHEL Fork to Preserve Choice in Enterprise Linux

[SUSE] Announces Free RHEL Fork to Preserve Choice in Enterprise Linux

SUSE announced, that it plans to offer a free alternative to RHEL and CentOS users.

[Oracle] Keep Linux Open and Free - We Can’t Afford Not To

[Oracle] Keep Linux Open and Free - We Can’t Afford Not To

IBM doesn’t want to continue publicly releasing RHEL source code because it has to pay its engineers? That seems odd, given that Red Hat as a successful independent open source company ...

[pfSense] CE 2.7.0 Software and pfSense Plus 23.05.1 Software Now Available for Upgrades

[pfSense] CE 2.7.0 Software and pfSense Plus 23.05.1 Software Now Available for Upgrades

This includes improvements in captive portal and limiters, UPnP for game systems, new gateway state killing options, Firewall/NAT rule usability, and more.

PROXMOX BACKUP SERVER 3.0

PROXMOX BACKUP SERVER 3.0

The Proxmox team is excited to announce the release of Proxmox Backup Server 3.0. It's based on Debian 12 "Bookworm", but uses the newer Linux kernel 6.2, and includes ZFS 2.1.12.

[RockyLinux] Rocky Linux Expresses Confidence Despite Red Hat's Announcement

[RockyLinux] Rocky Linux Expresses Confidence Despite Red Hat's Announcement

Rocky Linux, a prominent community-driven open-source distribution of Enterprise Linux (EL), remains confident in its ability to continue as a bug-for-bug compatible and freely available alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), despite changes in accessibility