Miscellaneous Tech News

[mlnews]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/found-new-android-malware-with-never-before-seen-spying-capabilities/

[mlnews]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/in-the-wild-malware-preys-on-computers-dedicated-to-mining-cryptocurrency/

[JaredBusch]

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

WatchGuard bought Strongarm.io

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/watchguard-technologies-acquires-percipient-networks-and-adds-security-at-the-dns-layer-to-companys-smb-security-platform-300583673.html

Hopefully things don't change much but we will see.

Is anyone here using strongarm.io?

I am

I have it at home for free and at a client as a paid service.

I am quite nervous about this purchase.

I was quite looking for a good competitor to Cisco Umbrella (formerly OpenDNS).

[scottalanmiller]

Same here. I wish they would have stayed independent.

[black3dynamite]

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/ubuntu-18-04-lts-will-ship-older-version-nautilus

[black3dynamite]

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/virtualbox-guest-additions-linux-kernel

[Dashrender]

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/virtualbox-guest-additions-linux-kernel

How is this not bloat for the kernel?

[scottalanmiller]

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/virtualbox-guest-additions-linux-kernel

How is this not bloat for the kernel?

Because you don't compile them in when not needed

[Dashrender]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/virtualbox-guest-additions-linux-kernel

How is this not bloat for the kernel?

Because you don't compile them in when not needed

Thanks, wasn't sure if that was an option or not. So during install, that's a choice. thanks.

[DustinB3403]

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/virtualbox-guest-additions-linux-kernel

How is this not bloat for the kernel?

I kind of read the article in a different light, as in "now you can test linux and it just works" (as in from Windows) and that VirtualBox is adding something (read the article before you rip into me people).

Clearly it's not that way, but it reads it.

[mlnews]

Wine 3.0 Released.

[JaredBusch]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Same here. I wish they would have stayed independent.

Looks like they are keeping the standalone product for now.

[black3dynamite]

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3024623/google-ditches-ubuntu-for-debian-from-internal-engineering-environment

[dafyre]

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Wine 3.0 Released.

I'll be excited when they get the issues with SSL and such fixed. Windows Web Browsers and such don't work on HTTPS sites from what I've seen.

Edit: It's been a while since I've tried!)

[dbeato]

UCRM Update
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2106249-new-in-ucrm

[PenguinWrangler]

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3024623/google-ditches-ubuntu-for-debian-from-internal-engineering-environment

Can't say that I am shocked over this.

[NashBrydges]

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Same here. I wish they would have stayed independent.

Looks like they are keeping the standalone product for now.

I signed up with these guys for home use, literally 6 days ago. I've already gotten 2 warnings from the teenage kid clicking on links he shouldn't be. So far, loving it.

[mlnews]

openSuse updates Xen today.

[mlnews]

Instead of falling behind in security like Intel, AMD leaps forward with AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization about to be in the Linux 4.16 kernel.

[Obsolesce]

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Instead of falling behind in security like Intel, AMD leaps forward with AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization about to be in the Linux 4.16 kernel.

That is huge!