Article category: Security

NVIDIA detail new GPU driver vulnerabilities in their October 2024 Security Bulletin

By Liam Dawe, Oct 23

NVIDIA have released a security bulletin to detail new security issues, so it's time to update your GPU driver once again.

Internet Archive hit with DDoS attacks and hacked with 31 million accounts hit

By Liam Dawe, Oct 11

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A sad day for the internet, as it has been confirmed that the Internet Archive that hosts a massive amount of historical data has been hit by DDoS attacks, and unfortunately they've had a breach.

Major flaw found in CUPS - time to run Linux system updates

By Liam Dawe, Sep 27

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Yesterday details went public about a major security issue that was found in CUPS, the open source printing system.

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.6.14 Beta released with a Flatpak security fix

By Liam Dawe, Sep 21

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Valve released another small update to SteamOS 3.6 Beta for Steam Deck, bringing two small but important fixes as we're firmly on the road to the stable release.

Microsoft Windows kernel changes don't suddenly mean big things for Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe, Sep 15

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There's a lot of blog posts and news articles being written right now centred around Microsoft's plans for updates to Windows 11, and potential kernel changes, with some thinking this means big things for Linux gaming.

Ubuntu 24.10 gets a new Snap feature to handle prompting for app permissions

By Liam Dawe, Sep 13

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Canonical are continuing to advance their own Snap packaging system, with the Ubuntu 24.10 development builds getting a new permission prompt feature.

Microsoft breaks some Linux dual-boots in a recent Windows update

By Liam Dawe, Aug 21

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Do you dual-boot Windows and Linux? Well, a recent Windows update seems to have been a bit messy and may have broken the ability to boot into Linux. Causing an alarming message to display of "Something has gone seriously wrong".

Flaw in OpenSSH Server nicknamed regreSSHion could cause some problems

By Liam Dawe, Jul 1

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If you're dealing with Linux servers, or you have an active OpenSSH Server on your desktop, you may want to look into regreSSHion.

NVIDIA reveal new security issues in their GPU drivers for June 2024

By Liam Dawe, Jun 7

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Today NVIDIA put out a new security bulletin, to highlight multiple security issues identified in their proprietary graphics driver for Linux and Windows.

Kaspersky release a free Virus Removal Tool for Linux

By Liam Dawe, Jun 3

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Well, this is interesting. Kaspersky have released KVRT (Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool), which is free to use to scan your systems for issues.

More security issues in X.Org and Xwayland revealed and new releases live

By Liam Dawe, Apr 4

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Back in January we had some security issues revealed in both X.Org and Xwayland, and here we are with a few more and so there's new versions available for both to fix them.

Flathub now prominently notes unverified Flatpak apps

By Liam Dawe, Apr 2

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After all the issues with Canonical's Snap package scams lately, it seems the Flathub folks are continuing to ensure their platform is trustworthy.

XZ tools and libraries compromised with a critical issue

By Liam Dawe, Mar 29

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There's been an urgent security bulletin sent out in a few places today in the Linux sphere that relates to the XZ tools and libraries with liblzma, as certain version have been compromised.

3rd party KDE Plasma Global Themes and Widgets can lead to data loss

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21

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Uh oh. Seems there's been an issue lately with Global Themes for KDE, which has ended up causing a total wipe of data.

Knock knock. Who's there? More scam apps on Canonical's Snap Store!

By Liam Dawe, Mar 19

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No this isn't a joke, sadly. Canonical once again have an issue with scam apps appearing on the Snap Store, which is becoming a repeating problem.

Apex Legends Global Series postponed due to mid-match hacks

By Liam Dawe, Mar 18

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Good Morning. Some interesting industry news for you here, as it seems Apex Legends has something of a hacker problem right now that has even messed up the Global Series esport tournament. Note: ARTICLE UPDATED.

NVIDIA disclose new driver security issues - Feb 28

By Liam Dawe, Feb 28

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NVIDIA has revealed new GPU driver security issues in their latest bulletin, so here's what you need to know if you're using an NVIDIA GPU on Linux.

Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app

By Liam Dawe, Feb 23

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Not the first time this has happened, but recently the Snap store from Canonical hosted a scam bitcoin app that claimed to be "Exodus wallet" that caused a user to lose money.

Qualys discovers glibc flaw that could enable attackers to gain full root access

By Liam Dawe, Jan 31

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Well, here's another reminder to keep your PC up to date. Despite Linux being known for security, it's not perfect (no software is) and researchers at Qualys have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library.

Framework email customers for data breach from accounting partner getting phished

By Liam Dawe, Jan 16

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No one is safe from data breaches, and at times it won't even be the company you've directly interacted and purchased from but their partners, like what recently happened to Framework.

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