One of the well-known firewall software out there IPFire has released its 2.25 Core Update 145 version. This marks the one of the largest updated that IPFire has ever received. IPFire is one of the most flexible security tools out there that can act as a data center firewall as well as a home firewall....
VMware has released a patch to fix a vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director that could be exploited to perform code execution attacks and take over private clouds. Ethical hacking company Citadelo identified a vulnerability that bypassed VMware’s underlying security fundamentals. The bug that has been discovered in VMware Cloud Director was caused by a failure...
Linux Torvalds announced the general availability for Linux 5.7 in an email shared in the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Linux Torvalds announced the availability of Linux 5.7 with an email he has sent to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. He also stated that there are a lot of changes in the latest release and he...
Joomla announced a new data breach that impacted 2,700 users and exposed their critical personal information. Open-source content management system, Joomla announced that 2,700 users’ information with an account on resources.joomla.org were breached. Unencrypted JRD full site backups were stored in a third-party company Amazon Web Services S3 bucket. The third-party company is owned by...
Red Hat announced a new update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7. 7.8 is the first version in the 7.x series to enter the product’s maintenance phase. Red Hat Enterprise released Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.8 which comes with many updates. With this latest release, RHEL 7 is now in maintenance support and...
Verne Global, announced a new round of funding of $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus. Verne Global announced a $27M funding round. Verne Global’s all current investors, Wellcome Trust, Novator Partners, Stefnir and General Catalyst, participated in the round. The company stated that $27M funding expands the enterprise capacity of Verne Global’s high-performance...
GitHub’s security team announced that they have found a malware, named Octopus Scanner, in 26 repositories. GitHub’s security team has announced that they have received a message from a security researcher who pinpoints a malware in GitHub-hosted repositories. GitHub’s analysis shows that the malware is designed to enumerate and backdoor NetBeans projects. The malware is...
Alpine Linux, an independent, non-commercial, general-purpose Linux distribution, has released Alpine Linux 3.12.0, the first in the v3.12 stable series. Alpine Linux is an independent, non-commercial, general-purpose Linux distribution designed for power users who appreciate security, simplicity and resource efficiency. Alpine Linux has published a new version of its lightweight distribution, Alpine Linux 3.12.0. The...