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FOSSPicks

One weekend this month, Graham's synth obsession took him 600 miles in a rental car into ancient Cornwall to buy a beat-up old 1980s MIDIBoard. Stay tuned for a Linux editor! Graham looks at Surge, fd, Kloak keystroke anonymizer, Symphytum, uMatrix,†and more!
Poison Dwarf

Analyze malware on hacked Raspberry Pis and create a signature to detect malware in log entries.
Zack's Kernel News

Improving the Android low memory killer; randomizing the Kernel stack; and best practices.
Uninvited Guests

The nightmare of any admin is a user who can't resisting clicking on an unknown attachment labeled Application.exe. This article draws on a real-world example to show how you can use built-in Linux resources to detect unauthorized traffic that might have been invited in by a trigger-happy user.

News and Articles

Making PDFs More Secure in LibreOffice Writer

LibreOffice , libreoffice , Security

Depending on your needs, LibreOffice Writer offers varying degrees of security for PDFs.
Chromium-Based Browsers Will Ignore Google’s Ad-Blocking Ban

Brave Opera and Vivaldi will not implement Google’s changes that will cripple ad-blockers.
Zorin OS 15 Released

The new release is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Hardening Linux for Production Use

Administration , Security , Tools

To protect your production server from attacks, employ these common security tools to help safeguard your system.
Tutorials – Bash Functions

Learn how to make your Bash code more readable, robust, and reusable by managing the code within your Bash scripts.
Uninvited Guests

The nightmare of any admin is a user who can't resisting clicking on an unknown attachment labeled Application.exe. This article draws on a real-world example to show how you can use built-in Linux resources to detect unauthorized traffic that might have been invited in by a trigger-happy user.
Hand in Hand

Barrier is a Synergy fork that lets you work with one keyboard and mouse pair on multiple Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows computers.
Charly's Column – Tiger VNC

Sys admin columnist Charly enumerates the computers in his household and makes it clear that commuting between them would be an unreasonable burden on his personal energy balance. Instead he lets a tiger go the distance for him.
On the DVD

Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" Desktop and Fedora 30 Workstation
Tutorials – FreeCAD

Designing simple shapes in OpenSCAD is easy, but if you want to print complex machines with multiple interlocking pieces, you need to bring out the big guns. That's where FreeCAD comes in handy.