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[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

[AlmaLinux] Impact of RHEL changes to AlmaLinux

[AlmaLinux] Impact of RHEL changes to AlmaLinux

Yesterday, RedHat announced another massive shift that impacts all rebuilds and forks of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Going forward, Red Hat will now only be releasing the source code for RHEL RPMs behind their customer portal.

[FOSS Post] Red Hat is Shooting Itself in the Foot, Again!

[FOSS Post] Red Hat is Shooting Itself in the Foot, Again!

Red Hat announced that it would start locking the source code for RHEL packages behind a subscription paywall, making it very much harder to build derivative and RHEL-compatible distributions like Rocky Linux and others.

[TheHackerNews] Zero-Day Alert: Apple Releases Patches for Actively Exploited Flaws in iOS, macOS, and Safari

[TheHackerNews] Zero-Day Alert: Apple Releases Patches for Actively Exploited Flaws in iOS, macOS, and Safari

Apple on Wednesday released a slew of updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari browser to address a set of flaws it said were actively exploited in the wild.

[Microsoft] Response to Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

[Microsoft] Response to Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

Beginning in early June 2023, Microsoft identified surges in traffic against some services that temporarily impacted availability. Microsoft promptly opened an investigation and subsequently began tracking ongoing DDoS activity by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Storm-1359.

[VulnCheck] Fake Security Researcher GitHub Repositories Deliver Malicious Implant

[VulnCheck] Fake Security Researcher GitHub Repositories Deliver Malicious Implant

As part of VulnCheck’s Exploit Intelligence offering, we monitor and review large amounts of GitHub repositories. The review process exists to filter out useless, malicious, and/or scam repositories.

[SecurityWeek] Swiss Fear Government Data Stolen in Cyberattack

[SecurityWeek] Swiss Fear Government Data Stolen in Cyberattack

Switzerland said Thursday that government operational data might have been stolen in a cyberattack on the technology firm that provides software for several departments.

Mikrotik RouterOS RADVD Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Mikrotik RouterOS RADVD Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2023-32154On 10/05/2023 (May 10th, 2023) MikroTik received information about a

[TheHackerNews] Predator Android Spyware: Researchers Uncover New Data Theft Capabilities

[TheHackerNews] Predator Android Spyware: Researchers Uncover New Data Theft Capabilities

Security researchers analyze Predator, an Android spyware marketed by Intellexa. It exploits zero-day flaws, records audio, collects messages, and poses a threat to privacy. Similar spyware like Pegasus is increasingly abused, impacting civil society.

[US-CISA] CISA and Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory Guidance detailing PRC state-sponsored actors evading detection by “Living off the Land”

[US-CISA] CISA and Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory Guidance detailing PRC state-sponsored actors evading detection by “Living off the Land”

Today, CISA joined the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and international partners in releasing a joint cybersecurity advisory highlighting recently discovered activities conducted by a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actor.

RouterOS v7.10rc1: BFD's Return and New MPLS Fast Reroute (FRR) Support!

RouterOS v7.10rc1: BFD's Return and New MPLS Fast Reroute (FRR) Support!

After a lengthy break, MikroTik is bringing BFD support back! With Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), users are empowered to rapidly detect faults between two forwarding engines. It's a robust tool to swiftly pinpoint network failures and initiate quick recovery.

EVE-NG PE v103: Enhanced Security, Improved Performance, and Expanded Support

EVE-NG PE v103: Enhanced Security, Improved Performance, and Expanded Support

EVE-NG PE v103: Enhanced Docker security, CPU optimization, deletion protection for labs, and partial Juniper vEX support. Upgrade for better networking.