March 7, 2022
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Patent trolls, aka Patent Assertion Entities (PAE)s, have plagued open-source software for ages. Over the years though, other groups have risen up to keep them from stealing from the companies and organizations that actually use patents’ intellectual property (IP). One such group, Unified Patents, an international organization of over 200 businesses, has been winning for the last two years. This is their story to date.
February 21, 2022
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Here we go again. Another obnoxious security bug, CVE-2022-0435: A Remote Stack Overflow in The Linux Kernel was found by Appgate senior exploit developer Samuel Page while he was poking around at a Linux heap overflow security bug, CVE-2021-43267 from November 2021. Page’s discovery is a remotely and locally reachable stack overflow in the Linux kernel’s Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol networking module.
Nasty Linux Kernel Stack Overflow Flaw Found and Patched. More>
February 18, 2022
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It’s always something when it comes to security. This time around the JFrog’s Security Research team has found a remote code execution (RCE) issue in Apache Cassandra, the popular open source NoSQL database. And, oh joy, of course with this RCE, you can stop Cassandra in its tracks. Since companies such as Netflix, Twitter, Reddit, and hundreds of others rely on Cassandra to be running every moment of the day, this is not good news.
February 18, 2022
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Netgear’s Orbi Wi-Fi 6E , aka AXE11000 or RBKE963, mesh Wi-Fi router hardware is expensive with a capital E. It currently costs a cool $1,500 for the router and its two satellites. But, for that money, you’ll get the fastest Wi-Fi networking you’ve ever seen.
How fast is it? I used the Ixia’s IxChariot networking benchmark and my Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone to measure its throughput and it beat every other Wi-Fi network I’ve ever tested. And, friends, I’ve tested a lot of network gear in my day.
Netgear Orbi Wi-Fi 6E: The fastest and most expensive Wi-Fi you can buy. More>
February 18, 2022
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There’s a lot of FUD about how Linux is being shown recently to be less secure than proprietary systems. That’s nonsense. But, now there are hard facts from Google’s Project Zero, Google’s security research team, showing Linux’s developers do a faster job of fixing security bugs than anyone else, including Google.
Project Zero looked at fixed bugs that had been reported between January 2019 and December 2021. The researchers found that open-source programmers fixed Linux issues in an average of only 25 days. In addition, Linux’s developers have been improving their speed in patching security holes from 32 days in 2019 to just 15 in 2021.
Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, says Google Project Zero. More>
February 16, 2022
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Soon both Google Chrome, the most popular of all web browsers, and the Firefox web browser will release their 100th version. Now, besides just being a cool number, there are technical issues that come with these anniversary releases. Some of those issues may cause your websites to fail.