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Testssl.sh – Testing TLS/SSL Encryption Anywhere on Any Port

Tecmint - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 14:36
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testssl.sh is a free and open-source, feature-rich command-line tool used for checking TLS/SSL encryption enabled services for supported ciphers, protocols, and some cryptographic flaws, on Linux/BSD servers. It can be run on macOS X

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LFCA: Basic Security Tips to Protect Linux System – Part 17

Tecmint - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 12:26
The post LFCA: Basic Security Tips to Protect Linux System – Part 17 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Now more than ever, we are living in a world where organizations are constantly bombarded by security breaches motivated by the acquisition of highly sensitive and confidential data which is highly valuable and makes

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Linux 5.13-rc1 Released Following "A Fairly Big Merge Window"

Phoronix - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 06:09
Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 5.13-rc1 as a Mother's Day kernel test release that also marks the closure of the merge window for the cycle...

Linux 5.13 Features From Apple M1 To New GPU Support, Security Additions

Phoronix - Mon, 05/10/2021 - 01:45
Following the two week merge window, feature development on the Linux 5.13 kernel is slated to end today with the release of Linux 5.13-rc1. Here is a look at some of the most interesting new features and improvements for this kernel that in turn should debut as stable around the end of June.

China Is Launching A New Alternative To Google Summer of Code, Outreachy

Phoronix - Sun, 05/09/2021 - 23:06
The Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) in cooperation with the Chinese openEuler Linux distribution have been working on their own project akin to Google Summer of Code and Outreachy for paying university-aged students to become involved in open-source software development...

Linux 5.10 LTS Will Be Maintained Through End Of Year 2026

Phoronix - Sun, 05/09/2021 - 22:41
Linux 5.10 as the latest Long Term Support release when announced was only going to be maintained until the end of 2022 but following enough companies stepping up to help with testing, Linux 5.10 LTS will now be maintained until the end of year 2026...

Oracle Continues Working On The Maple Tree For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 05/09/2021 - 21:25
Oracle engineers have continued working on the "Maple Tree" data structure for the Linux kernel as an RCU-safe, range-based B-tree designed to make efficient use of modern processor caches...

Linux 5.13 Brings Simplified Retpolines Handling

Phoronix - Sun, 05/09/2021 - 20:50
In addition to work like Linux 5.13 addressing some network overhead caused by Retpolines, this next kernel's return trampoline implementation itself is seeing a simplification...

Linux 5.13 Adds Support For SPI NOR One-Time Programmable Memory Regions

Phoronix - Sun, 05/09/2021 - 18:13
The Linux 5.13 kernel has initial support for dealing with SPI one-time programmable (OTP) flash memory regions...

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