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Tweet Red Hat Updates Messaging, Realtime and Grid Platform Enterprise MRG 2.1 release features new technologies bringing benefits to use cases ranging from the cloud to financial services to telecommunications Red Hat, Inc. RHT -.00% , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1 with [...]

Tweet Linux vendors urgently patch a security flaw OPEN SOURCE Linux distributors are quickly patching a security flaw recently found in the Linux kernel. A local attacker can gain root access to the system via a privilege escalation vulnerability. The security hole involves the kernel failing to restrict access to the “/proc/ /mem” file, according [...]

Tweet Windows 8 Secure Boot – or How Microsoft Is Riling Up the Linux Masses “The trusting (ironic this is all about Trusted Computing) side of me wants to believe this is just a spec from Microsoft to ensure their OS runs correctly on hardware platforms,” said Slashdot blogger yagu. “But history, track record, and [...]

Tweet Linux root exploit due to memory access – Update 2 Linus Torvalds released a Linux kernel update last week which fixes a flaw in the access control to memory. Shortly afterwards, exploits appeared making it possible to gain root privileges using this error. Since Linux kernel version 2.6.39 the dump of each process can [...]

Tweet Securely booting Linux a “difficult” proposition Matthew Garrett, the Red Hat engineer who originally raised the issue of UEFI Secure Boot and Linux, points out in a new posting titled “Why UEFI secure boot is difficult for Linux” that, despite Microsoft’s recent changes to its UEFI Secure Boot requirements, there are some major challenges [...]