Zack’s Kernel News
Zack’s Kernel News
Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
Licensing Confusion
An interesting little licensing escapade occurred recently. Matthew Garrett noticed that CloudLinux corporation had released their lve kernel driver under a new, proprietary license, whereas before, it had been released under the GPL. Technically, nothing too fishy is going on here because the original author of GPL’d code is still free to release that code under other licenses. But Matthew noticed that, in this particular case, the driver still pretended to the kernel to be a GPL’d driver and still used kernel symbols that were restricted to GPL-only code.
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Password Management Services Vulnerable to Attack
Should you trust an online service to store your online passwords?
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New Raspberry Pi Adds Two USB Ports
New B+ board lets you build cool things without the complication of a powered USB hub.
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Microsoft Grabs No-IP.com Domains
Redmond rushes in to root out alleged malware haven.
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Firefox Steps into 3D
New initiative will bring futuristic virtual reality effects to the web surfing experience.
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New Trojan Targets Online Banking
Dyreza malware launches a man-in-the-middle attack that compromises SSL.
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HP Rolls Out Massive Cloud Network
New cloud combines worldwide access with local attention to data security.
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New Attack Targets Wireless Logins
A first cousin of the recent Heartbleed attack affects EAP-based wireless and peer-to-peer authentication.
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Geeks Petition for Free Lenovo BIOS
FOSS community acts to protect freedom of choice for laptop devices.
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Firefox Says Yes to DRM
Quintessential open source browser shores up its market share with a step toward the proprietary dark side.
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Webcam Hijackers Busted
Authorities in 16 countries take action against users of the imfamous BlackShades malware tool.