OpenBSD and NetBSD

• The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign

  If a penny was donated for every pf or OpenSSH installed with a mainstream operating system or phone in the last year we would be at our goal.

• OpenBSD Community Goes Gold for 2018!

• New core team member - Taylor Campbell'

Security: Twitter and Facebook

• Twitter banned Kaspersky Lab from advertising in Jan

   

  Twitter has banned advertising from Russian security vendor Kaspersky Lab since January, the head of the firm, Eugene Kaspersky, has disclosed.  

• When you go to a security conference, and its mobile app leaks your data

   

  A mobile application built by a third party for the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week was found to have a few security issues of its own—including hard-coded security keys and passwords that allowed a researcher to extract the conference's attendee list. The conference organizers acknowledged the vulnerability on Twitter, but they say that only the first and last names of 114 attendees were exposed.

• The Security Risks of Logging in With Facebook

   

  In a yet-to-be peer-reviewed study published on Freedom To Tinker, a site hosted by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, three researchers document how third-party tracking scripts have the capability to scoop up information from Facebook's login API without users knowing. The tracking scripts documented by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan represent a small slice of the invisible tracking ecosystem that follows users around the web largely without their knowledge.

• Facebook Login data hijacked by hidden JavaScript trackers

   

  If you login to websites through Facebook, we've got some bad news: hidden trackers can suck up more of your data than you'd intended to give away, potentially opening it up to abuse.

Beginner Friendly Gentoo Based Sabayon Linux Has a New Release

The team behind Sabayon Linux had issued a new release. Let’s take a quick look at what’s involved in this new release.

Android Leftovers

• Android P: Cheat sheet

• Fuchsia Friday: Early thoughts on how Android compatibility could potentially happen

• Android Circuit: New Galaxy Note Confirmed, OnePlus 6 Leaks, Samsung Patents 'iPhone X Style' Notch

• Google's plan to fix texting on Android is really about the death of SMS

• Google Photos for Android reorganizes bottom bar to prioritize main tab & view