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This week, Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Josh Bressers, VP of Security at Anchore, and host of the Open Source Security and Hacker History podcasts. We talk security, …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 807: Bitten by the Penguin
This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with James Smith about Manyfold, the self-hosted 3D print digital asset manager that’s on the Fediverse! Does it do live renders? Does …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 806: Manyfold — The Dopamine of Open Source
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, a relatively light Patch Tuesday this month for Windows administrators. The software giant also responded to a torrent of negative feedback on a new feature of Redmond’s flagship operating system that constantly takes screenshots of whatever users are doing on their computers, saying the feature would no longer be enabled by default. Continue reading Patch Tuesday, June 2024 “Recall” Edition
On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to redirect to “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com, which is currently rendered as fedex.com in tweets. Continue reading Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers
Pagers were a big deal for a while there, even if they never quite made it into the pantheon of excellent sitcom plot devices like answering machines did. Anyway, [Finnley …read more Continue reading Pager Lives Again Thanks to Python And Mastodon
Five days after Mastodon developers pushed out fixes for a remotely exploitable account takeover vulnerability (CVE-2024-23832), over 66% of Mastodon servers out there have been upgraded to close the hole. About Mastodon Mastodon is open-source (server… Continue reading Lagging Mastodon admins urged to patch critical account takeover flaw (CVE-2024-23832)
Meta’s Threads app is officially launching in Europe today, and the platform is also starting to test support for ActivityPub, the open social networking protocol used by Mastodon and Wordpress.
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By now, most Windows users are set up with decently functional machines running Windows 10 or 11. Of course there are a few legacy machines still lagging behind on Windows …read more Continue reading MS-DOS Meets the Fediverse
A critical vulnerability in the Mastodon social networking platform may allow attackers to take over target servers.
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Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed today that his firm’s new service has had over 70 million sign-ups in its first two days.
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