Recently, I’ve browsed several how-to’s regarding the possibility of unlocking a LUKS root volume remotely using an SSH connection. The problem with their approach is simple: they asked how to fix their setup, but forgot to ask what they’re trying to protect.
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GNOME Shell Usability Test Plan
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For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working with Jon McCann, Jeremy Perry, and Owen Taylor on developing a usability testing plan for GNOME Shell. It’s a work-in-progress, and I wanted to make a quick posting about the effort and where it’s going.
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Determine If Shell Input is Coming From the Terminal or From a Pipe
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Working on a little script the other day I had the need to determine if the input to the script was coming from a pipe or from the terminal. Seems like a simple enough thing to determine but nothing jumped immediately to mind and a quick internet search didn't help much either. After a bit of pondering I came up with two solutions: the stat command and using information from the proc file system.
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Security in the 20-teens
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Recently, Google announced that its operations in China (and beyond) had been subject to sophisticated attacks, some of which were successful; a number of other companies have been attacked as well. The source of these attacks may never be proved, but it is widely assumed that they were carried out by government agencies.
Read more »Linux-based Roku Player has an SDK
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The Roku player, that nifty little Linux-based device which streams Netflix, Amazon movies, Revision3 shows, and more, now has an SDK available for programmers to create their own channels...
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Installing PHP 5.3, Nginx And PHP-fpm On Ubuntu/Debian
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Since Apache is most of the time a memory hungy process, people started to look for different ways to host their website. Apache is clearly not the only webserver available. A few good examples are lighttpd and nginx. In this tutorial I will show you how to install nginx on your Ubuntu server. This tutorial also applies to Debian, though. There is only a very small difference.
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Mozilla Developer Preview (Gecko 1.9.3a1) available
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A Mozilla Developer Preview of improvements in the Gecko layout engine is now available for download. This is a pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.3 platform, which forms the core of rich Internet applications such as Firefox.
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Open Source Hardware Hacking With the PogoPlug
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Q: The PogoPlug is easy to use for end-users, as well as advanced enough to where software developers can modify the code it runs, why did you go with an open platform versus a closed platform?
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Introducing Cinecutie
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After lot of time spent to learn the cinelerra code, I want to move an other step on the opensource contribute. I'm started from tangolerra project made by Franco Iacomella and after an hard job with svg I made my personal mochup of Cinelerra called Cutiehd.
Read more »Vulnerability in Samba provides access to files
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A vulnerability in the creation of symbolic links (symlinks) in the free Samba file and printer server can be exploited to attain access to files outside of predefined paths. Attackers can even get access to the system's root directory (/). To exploit the flaw (directory traversing), attackers first have to have an account on the Samba server that includes write access to at least one share.
Read more »LCA: Static analysis with GCC plugins
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Taras Glek works for Mozilla, but he is not a browser hacker; instead, he works on GCC and other tools aimed at making the browser development process better. It is, he says, a good job.
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MariaDB 5.1.42 released!
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MariaDB 5.1.42, a new branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, myriad bug fixes, and many community patches, has been released. We are very proud to have made our first final release, and we encourage you to test it out and use it on your systems.
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OpenDNSSEC 1.0.0 released
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Internet engineers continue to enhance Internet security with the release of OpenDNSSEC, a tool which simplifies the process of signing one or more zones with DNSSEC.
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Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux
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Ksplice Inc. today officially launched its no-reboot patching service for Linux servers. The Cambridge, Mass., start-up has about 35 customers and several thousand servers using its paid Uptrack service, in which security and maintenance patches are automatically applied to Linux servers with minimal delay and no downtime, according to Chief Operating Officer Waseem Daher.
Read more »Design contest launched for tiny Linux net server
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Lantronix announced a design contest based on its recently introduced XPort Pro, touted as the "world's smallest Linux networking server. Lantronix will award prizes of $6,000 and $3,000 to the two top entries for Best Linux Design.
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