Contribute at the Fedora Test Week for Kernel 5.9
The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 5.9. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a…
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Secure NTP with NTS
Many computers use the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize their system clocks over the internet. NTP is one of the few unsecured internet protocols still in common use. An attacker that can observe network…
GStreamer: GStreamer 1.16.3 old-stable bug fix release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the third and likely last bug fix release in the stable 1.16 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release contains important security fixes. We suggest…
Incremental backup with Butterfly Backup
Introduction This article explains how to make incremental or differential backups, with a catalog available to restore (or export) at the point you want, with Butterfly Backup. Requirements Butterfly Backup is a simple wrapper of…
Web of Trust, Part 2: Tutorial
The previous article looked at how the Web of Trust works in concept, and how the Web of Trust is implemented at Fedora. In this article, you’ll learn how to do it yourself. The power…
Andy Wingo: on “binary security of webassembly”
Greets!You may have seen an interesting paper cross your radar a couple months ago: Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly, by Daniel Lehmann, Johannes Kinder and Michael Pradel. The paper makes some…
Bastien Nocera: Sandboxing inside the sandbox: No rogue thumbnailers inside Flatpak
A couple of years ago, we sandboxed thumbnailers using bubblewrap to avoid drive-by downloads taking advantage of thumbnailers with security issues. It's a great tool, and it's a tool that Flatpak relies upon to create its…
Andy Wingo: malloc as a service
Greetings, internet! Today I have the silliest of demos for you: malloc-as-a-service.loading walloc... > JavaScript disabled, no walloc demo. See the walloc web page for more information. >&&>>>>&&>The above input box, if things managed to…
Nirbheek Chauhan: Building GStreamer on Windows the Correct Way
For the past 4 years, Tim and I have spent thousands of hours on better Windows support for GStreamer. Starting in May 2016 when I first wrote about this and then with the first draft…
Jean-François Fortin Tam: Introducing Atypica
A while ago, I envisioned building a new* professional video production collective for commercial and non-commercial projects, both as a “creative outlet” for one of my long-standing passions, and as a way to build a…
