What is cryptography? How algorithms keep information secret and safe
Cryptography definition Cryptography is the art of keeping information secure by transforming it into form that unintended recipients cannot understand. In cryptography, an original human...
DSA-5142 libxml2 – security update
Felix Wilhelm reported that several buffer handling functions in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files, don't check...
DSA-5143 firefox-esr – security update
Manfred Paul discovered two security issues in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code. Read More
DSA-5144 condor – security update
Several flaws have been discovered in HTCondor, a distributed workload management system, which allow users with only READ access to any daemon to use a...
mingw-pcre2-10.40-1.fc36
FEDORA-2022-9c9691d058 Packages in this update: mingw-pcre2-10.40-1.fc36 Update description: Update to pcre2-10.40, see https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/blob/pcre2-10.40/NEWS for details. Read More
mingw-pcre2-10.40-1.fc35
FEDORA-2022-19f4c34184 Packages in this update: mingw-pcre2-10.40-1.fc35 Update description: Update to pcre2-10.40, see https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/blob/pcre2-10.40/NEWS for details. Read More
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Street Art
Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my...
The Onion on Google Map Surveillance
“Google Maps Adds Shortcuts through Houses of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now.” Excellent satire. Read More
Greenland hit by cyber attack, finds its health service crippled
For the past week and a half, Greenland's health service has reportedly been struggling to recover from a cyber attack that has crippled its IT...
Canada bans Huawei, ZTE in 5G networks
Ottawa government’s move follows similar bans in other English-speaking countries, citing potential security risks to 5G communications networks. Read More