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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and this year’s theme is “See Yourself in Cyber.”
According to CISA, this initiative is focused on the “people part of cybersecurity, providing information and resources to help educate CISA partners and the public, and ensure all individuals and organizations...
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The Linux kernel will support the Rust programming language as of version 6.1, reports Liam Proven.
“The first big change for the forthcoming Linux kernel 6.1 is in… and it's a big one, says Proven. “Kees Cook made the pull request and Linus Torvalds accepted...
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Canonical has announced a free tier of its Ubuntu Pro commercial offering for users who want to access exclusive tools and extend the coverage of security updates for up to 10 years, reports Marius Nestor.
Ubuntu Pro is “an expanded security maintenance and compliance subscription”...
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Ever wanted to tweak KDE Plasma’s theme to suit your own taste? Many users fail to understand how KDE themes work, writes sreenath.
“It is not a straightforward process,” sreenath says; “there’s a Global theme, there’s a Plasma theme, there are color schemes, window decorations,...
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The Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) framework is designed to help organizations improve the integrity of their software supply chains, says FOSSA.
The goal of SLSA, according to the announcement blog post from Google in June 2021, is to “improve the state of...
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Web storage is a feature of HTML5 that allows web applications to store data locally within a user's browser, explains Boateng Dickson. “The two most common forms of web storage are LocalStorage and Session Storage.”
In this article, you will learn about the theoretical and...
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Company culture is the biggest predictor of application-development security practices, says the latest Accelerate State of DevOps report from Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team. Specifically, “high-trust, low-blame cultures focused on performance were 1.6 times more likely to have above average adoption...
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The FSFE started the Youth Hacking 4 Freedom (YH4F) competition in October of 2021 to inspire the younger generation about software freedom. We received many interesting and inspired projects from all around Europe, and more than a hundred people from 25 countries registered for...
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Linus Torvalds has released the 6.0 kernel as expected, noting that the major version number upgrade is more a matter of practicality than any fundamental changes.
“But of course there's a lot of various changes in 6.0,” writes Torvalds in his announcement, “We've got over...
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Hackers are using open source software and fake social media accounts to trick software developers and IT staff with bogus job offers that lead to malware attacks, reports Liam Tung.
According to the Microsoft blog, “social engineering campaigns using weaponized legitimate open source software” have...
