SAP SE is trying to marshal business technology’s biggest suppliers to gather hacker-fighting intelligence following a spate of security problems with open-source software. The biggest maker of business applications has contacted companies includingMicrosoft Corp. and Apple Inc. about sharing information on analyses of the weaknesses in open-source code, which is generally free to run and…
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Open Source Software
In open source, no one cares if you're a dog
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On the Internet, no one cares if you’re a dog, the saying goes. In open source, no one cares if you’re a jerk. Source: Tech
Steam Broadcasting Goes Live
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That means anyone with a PC can begin streaming games for their friends live, right in Steam. Valve promises Mac and Linux support “in the future.” Source: Tech
Ubuntu Delivers A Smart Device Operating System
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Drones and Wearables App Store Launches
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The world’s first App Store for the Internet of Things was announced today by Canonical Ltd. the makers of Ubuntu Linux. The company already has an app store for computers running the Ubuntu operating system, but the new IoT App Store will be for devices that have no graphic user interface . Source: Tech
Shinken 2.2
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Shinken is a modern, Nagios compatible monitoring framework, written in Python. Its main goal is to give users a flexible architecture for their monitoring system that is designed to scale to large environments. Source: Tech
alpaca-variant-caller 0.3.1
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ALPACA is a single nucleotide variant caller for next-generation sequencing data, providing intuitive control over the false discovery rate with generic sample filtering scenarios, leveraging OpenCL on CPU, GPU or any coprocessor to speed up calculations and an using HDF5 based persistent storage for iterative refinement of analyses within seconds. Often, variant calling entails filtering…
Ubuntu: 2468-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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Software Description: – linux: Linux kernel Details: A null pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the the Linux kernel’s SCTP implementation when ASCONF is used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service via a malformed INIT chunk. Source: Tech
Top 5 open source project management tools in 2015
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Last year, I covered five of the best open source project management tools , like ProjectLibre and OpenProject. The article struck a chord with readers and continues to prove valuable. Source: Tech
pwntools – CTF Framework & Exploit Development Library
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Written in Python, it is designed for rapid prototyping and development, and intended to make exploit writing as simple as possible. from pwn import * context r = remote # EXPLOIT CODE GOES HERE r.send )) r.interactive() pwntools is best supported on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, but most functionality should work on any Posix-like distribution…