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How to stop typosquatting attacks

opensource.com - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 16:00

Cybercriminals are turning to social engineering to try to trick unsuspecting people into divulging private information or valuable credentials. It is behind many phishing scams where the attacker poses as a reputable company or organization and uses it as a front to distribute a virus or other piece of malware.


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How to Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate on CentOS 8

Tecmint - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 14:09
Securing your web server is always one of the key factors that you should consider before going live with your website. A security certificate is critical for securing traffic sent from web browsers to...

Vulkan 1.2 Comes To macOS / iOS Via Updated MoltenVK

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 13:45
While Apple still isn't officially supporting the Vulkan graphics/compute API in remaining focused on their Metal drivers, MoltenVK at least has been updated for Vulkan 1.2 in allowing developers to target this Vulkan-to-Metal abstraction layer for macOS and iOS...

Mesa 20.0 Feature Development Is Ending Next Week

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 13:09
Mesa developers are planning to end feature work on Mesa 20.0 next week as this first quarter update to the Mesa 3D graphics stack...

Android-x86 Is Still Working Towards Its 9.0 "Pie" Release

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 08:10
Android 9.0 "Pie" is approaching two years of age and already succeeded by Android 10, but on the Android-x86 front the 9.0 release is finally getting closer...

Dav1d AV1 Decoder Begins Adding AVX-512 Optimizations For Intel Ice Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 05:45
Ahead of the forthcoming dav1d 0.6 release, this open-source AV1 video decoder has begun implementing AVX-512 optimizations targeting Intel Ice Lake processors...

Sway 1.4 Wayland Compositor Brings VNC Support, Initial Bits For MATE Panel Support

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 03:31
Sway 1.4 is out today as the newest version of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor that has a growing following...

GhostBSD 20.01 Released For FreeBSD 12.1 + MATE 1.22.2 Desktop Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 03:22
GhostBSD 20.01 is out today as the first release of 2020 for this desktop-focused BSD operating system built off FreeBSD...

Debian 7 Through Debian Testing Benchmarks With/Without Mitigations

Phoronix - Thu, 01/23/2020 - 01:38
As part of our many Linux benchmarks in ending out the 2010s we ran tests looking at CentOS 6 through CentOS 8, seven years of Ubuntu Linux performance, and various other Linux distribution benchmarks and testing other important pieces of open-source software over time. One of the additional comparisons now wrapped up is looking at the performance of Debian GNU/Linux going back from the old 7 series through the current 10 stable series and also Debian Testing. Tests where relevant were done out-of-the-box with the default security mitigations and again with mitigations disabled.

AMDVLK 2020.Q1.1 Brings Some Performance Tuning, Still On Vulkan 1.1

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2020 - 23:53
Out this morning is AMDVLK 2020.Q1.1 as AMD's first official open-source Vulkan driver code drop of the new year...

Feral's GameMode 1.5 Now Supports Changing The CPU Governor Differently For iGPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2020 - 23:02
GameMode, the open-source daemon led by the game porters at Feral Interactive for dynamically optimizing Linux system performance when running games, is out today with version 1.5 as its newest feature update...

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