Open-source News

Microsoft Employee Discovers Critical Flaw in Linux Utility, Prevents Widespread Global Impact  gizmochina

Catch Of The Week: Backdoor Nearly Hits Linux  Los Alamos Daily Post

Just two days after a Linux 6.9 pull request was submitted for Bcachefs to better cope with "extreme file-system damage", another pull request for this current cycle was submitted that aims to improve the recovery capabilities of this newer copy-on-write open-source file-system...

Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery  Phoronix

Tools for Linux Distro Hoppers: A Beginner-Friendly Guide  hackernoon.com

Here's How Millions of Linux Computers Almost Got Hacked  The Intercept

A Newly Exposed Linux Utility Backdoor Leaves Nearly Every Distro Vulnerable, Here's What to Do  MUO - MakeUseOf

Proton Mail is making a serious case to be my next Linux email client  ZDNet

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?  The New York Times

The Google Open-Source Blog today announced Jpegli, a JPEG coding library for encode/decode that maintains backwards compatibility with JPEG while offering around a 35% compression ratio improvement for high quality JPEG compression...

Outrageous: Microsoft to charge $61 for Windows 10 updates — consider switching to Linux!  BetaNews

The Netherlands-based PC vendor NovaCustom that specializes in privacy/security minded hardware and user freedoms has announced their V54 and V56 laptops. These new laptops powered by Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoCs are self-proclaimed as the fastest Coreboot laptops in the world...

"We got lucky": What the XZ Utils backdoor says about the strength and insecurities of open source  ITPro

Last year the X.Org Server disabled byte-swapped clients by default over being a large and known attack surface within the X.Org/XWayland codebase. That's proven itself to further be the case with 3 of 4 new CVEs made public today being around the byte-swapped code...

The Linux Security Journey — SUID (Saved User ID)  Medium

Ubuntu 24.04 Beta delayed due to malicious code in xz-utils, other Linux distros are also affected  Tom's Hardware

A new XZ backdoor scanner will be able to safeguard any Linux binary from threats  TechRadar

Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Addressed in Ubuntu 18.04  Security Boulevard

David Malcolm of Red Hat's compiler team is out with his annual blog post summarizing the static analysis improvements to find with the upcoming GCC 14 stable compiler release...

Linux Kernel 6.7 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.8  9to5Linux