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Mozilla Firefox Could Soon Get a “Tor Mode” Add-on

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Are you a Mozilla Firefox user? Did you know that Firefox browser could soon receive a Tor mode add-on that would significantly enhance privacy by connecting to the Tor network? While the final goal is to implement a fully-featuredTORmode in the browser natively, such a project takes time, and members of Mozilla and the Tor team discussed the challenges at a recent meeting. Their proposal was to develop a browser add-on that would enable this Tor mode inFirefox, as this approach could give the two organizations enough time to plan on the engineering work that is needed for this new feature.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 22, 2019

Following Court Decision, Amazon and Microsoft Set to Compete Over Military’s Cloud Computing Contract

Have you been following the JEDI project? The $10 billion project has been full of controversy; however, the Pentagon still hopes to seal the deal with either Amazon or Microsoft next month.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 15, 2019

Linux May Gain Protection Against Hyper-Threading Attacks

Have you heard that security researchers have been working on security feature for Linux kernels that could protect Linux-based systems against attacks that affect Intel’s Hyper-Threading (HT) feature? Multiple side-channel threats the feature's vulnerable against, including L1TF/Foreshadow and the MDS attacks, have been revealed over the past few months.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 12, 2019

Implementing Bug Bounty Programs: The Right and Wrong Approaches

In this article, Threatpost catches up with David Baker, the chief security officer at Bugcrowd, about the future of bug bounty programs. While bug-bounty programs may seem like a cure-all solution for companies looking discover vulnerabilities in their systems more efficiently, the fact remains that a program could overwhelm a firm’s internal security team and cause other major headaches if implemented the wrong way.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 12, 2019

Google hopes to standardize robots.txt by going open source

Google is releasing robots.txt to the open-source community in the hopes that the system will, one day, becoming a stable internet standard.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 02, 2019

FreeDOS turns 25 years old: An origin story

June 29 marks the 25th anniversary of FreeDOS. That's a major milestone for any open source software project, and I'm proud of the work that we've done on it over the past quarter century. I'm also proud of how we built FreeDOS because it is a great example of how the open source software model works.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 28, 2019

Cloud Security Research Reveals Challenges, Areas of Growth in Upcoming Years

Two reports on cloud security were recently released: The 2019 Cloud Security Report and the Global Cloud Security Software Market report. The latter is a five-year forecast that covers 2019 through 2024. These reports showed where growth lies within the cloud security market and what challenges are presented to businesses who use or are looking to use cloud services.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 25, 2019

The world’s best supercomputers are being updated to run AI software faster

The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) kicked off in Frankfurt yesterday with the release of the latest list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. US machines still top the ranking, but China has the most computers on the list (219 versus 116 for the US).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 18, 2019

Embracing open source could be a big competitive advantage for businesses

As companies chase the transformational technologies that will deliver exponential returns, they should turn their attention from the “what” to the “how.” One type of software underpins many of the most exciting, cutting-edge innovations today, including AI, cloud, blockchain, and quantum computing: open source.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 17, 2019

Have I Been Pwned: It’s time to grow up and smell the acquisition potential

Have I Been Pwned has become a popular tool to find out whether or not you have been involved in a data breach, and after starting life as a one-man-band project, may soon be on the acquisition books.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 11, 2019

Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US hacking

Amidst an escalating trade war and political tensions with the US, Beijing officials have decided to develop a custom operating system that will replace the Windows OS on computers used by the Chinese military.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 28, 2019

Edge Magnifies Open Source Challenges, Opportunities

There are almost as many open source groups and projects working on edge computing as there are definitions of edge — one such project, in fact, focuses exclusively on defining edge terms. This is partially due to the hype, and consolidation will probably happen as the hype turns into real-life deployments and concrete use cases.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 27, 2019

Tor Browser for Android 8.5 offers mobile users privacy boost

After nine months of alpha testing, a stable release of the Tor browser for Android can now be downloaded from Google’s Play store or direct from the Project’s website.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 23, 2019

The future of AI is collaborative

AI is becoming increasingly widespread, affecting all facets of society — even Sonic drive-ins are planning to implement artificial intelligence to provide better customer service.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 21, 2019

Mozilla offers research grant for a way to embed Tor inside Firefox

Mozilla is looking for a more efficient way of integrating Tor into Firefox, and the organization is willing to throw money at the problem.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 09, 2019

IBM Developers Looking At Adding System Call Isolation To Enhance Linux Security

Developers at IBM are working on a new concept for the Linux kernel of "system call isolation" in order to isolate parts of the kernel when impacted by vulnerabilities.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 26, 2019

Linux 5.1-rc6 Kernel Released In Linus Torvalds' Easter Day Message

Linux 5.1-rc6 is larger than the previous release candidate, but he isn't too worried right now about the condition of the upcoming Linux 5.1 kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 21, 2019

IBM launches blockchain skills academy with University of Louisville

One of top 200 universities in the US, along with a helping hand from IBM, is getting its students into blockchain with dedicated training.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 18, 2019

Android phones transformed into anti-phishing security tokens

Google just announced a new security feature that allows users of Android 7 and later to use their smartphones to authenticate themselves to their Google accounts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 12, 2019

Europe to pilot AI ethics rules, calls for participants

The European Commission has announced the launch of a pilot project intended to test draft ethical rules for developing and applying artificial intelligence technologies to ensure they can be implemented in practice.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 08, 2019

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