Hands-on with Linux Mint Debian Edition 3 Beta

I have been out of touch for the past six months, because I accepted a teaching position in Amsterdam. The amount of time that required, and the weekly commute from Switzerland (yes, really, weekly), was vastly more than I expected, and left me no time to do justice to my blog. But now I am back again, and determined to manage my time more effectively and keep up with blogging. Although I haven't been writing, I certainly have been keeping up with news and developments in the Linux world. What really inspired me to get busy and write again was the announcement of LMDE 3 (Cindy) Beta. Hooray! How long have we been waiting for this? It feels like years. Oh, that's because it has been years.

Security Leftovers

• Theo on the latest Intel issues

  Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) posted to the tech@ mailing list with some background on how the latest discovered Intel CPU issues relate to OpenBSD.

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  These 3 issues (CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646) together are the currently public artifacts of this one bug.

• Putting Stickers On Your Laptop Is Probably a Bad Security Idea

  Mitchell said political stickers, for instance, can land you in secondary search or result in being detained while crossing a border. In one case, Mitchell said a hacker friend ended up missing a flight over stickers.

• Video Shows Hotel Security at DEF CON Joking About Posting Photos of Guests' Belongings to Snapchat

  But the room check captured on video suggests the walkthroughs are subject to abuse by hotel personnel who may use them as opportunity to snoop on guests or take and post images for amusement. And accounts of other searches that involved hotel security staff refusing to show ID or showing insufficient ID, and displaying bullying and threatening behavior to guests in occupied rooms, raises questions about the legality of the searches and the tactics and training of security personnel.

• Researchers in Finland detect vulnerability in password management software

  Researchers identified a security gap in more than 10 applications used by millions around the world, including an app used by Finland's population registry.

• Trump ends Obama-era rules on US-led cyberattacks: report

   

  The memorandum required that an extensive interagency process take place before the U.S. government embarks on any cyberattacks. Trump reversed the rules to try and ease some of those restrictions, which critics argued were detrimental to launching the attacks quickly, according to the Journal.

Android Leftovers

• How to Back Up and Restore Your Android Phone or Tablet

• Are your Android apps listening to you?

• The Android app that could boost your phone's battery life by 30 per cent

• Google Voice w/ tweaked navigation & Contacts tab rolling out to Android via server-side update

• Which smartphones will get Android 9 first

• Synology and Android: Everything you need to know

• Android 9 Pie (Go edition) will make Android Go better this fall

• Android Pie makes it impossible to record calls with third-party apps

Red Hat News

• [Podcast] PodCTL #45 – Container Registries

  This week is the One Year Anniversary of the PodCTL podcast! We’ve now got a few teeth coming in and we’re ready for the terrible twos. This week we dug into the role of Container Registries and how they interact with both Kubernetes, but also CI/CD pipelines and security systems (e.g. scanning, image signing, etc.). We also go into some design consideration basics for container registry usage.

• How software users are like kittens

• Bulls bet on Bank of America, this software name

  "Halftime Report" traders Jon and Pete Najarian spot unusual activity in Red Hat, Boston Scientific, and Bank of America.

• Red Hat (RHT) to strike $164.88 in short term period

• Strs Ohio Sells 142,688 Shares of Red Hat Inc (RHT)

• Looks Like A Buying Opportunity: Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB), Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)

• Analysts Watch-List Stock: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)

• Have Stock Gurus Now Turned Sour On Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. (LL)?

• Speculative Bullish Options Activity in Red Hat (RHT) Ahead of Q2 Earnings Announcement on 9/20 -Susquehanna

• Red Hat Inc. (RHT) Dips 3.07% for August 15