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Windows Subsystem for Linux is now Open Source
[German]At the BUILD 2025 developer conference, Microsoft announced that it had released WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) as open source and is being celebrated by developers. The hope from Redmond is that software developers can now contribute to WSL and … Continue reading
Kali Linux: Updates fail due to "lost" key
[German]The developers of Kali Linux have frozen their repository for a few days, meaning that updates to the operating system may fail. The reason for this is a lost repository key for signing the files.
Operating system/Windows share (end of March 2025); Windows 11 jumps
[German]We have April 2025 and Statcounter's figures on operating system distribution on the desktop are available again for March 2025. Since Windows 10 will no longer be supported in October 2025, many users will only be able to use Windows … Continue reading
Linux Mint 22.1 released
The maintainers of Linux Mint have released version 22.1 (Xia). Linux Mint 22.1 is a version with long-term support until 2029 and brings updated software packages, some refinements and many new features. The release notes with known issues can be … Continue reading
Bootkitty: First Linux UEFI Bootkit
[German]ESET Research has discovered the first Linux UEFI boot kit and named it Bootkitty. This Linux UEFI boot kit was uploaded to Virustotal in early November 2024 and came to the attention of the security researchers.
Linux/Unix RCE vulnerabilities in CUPS (Sept. 2024)
[German]There are several critical vulnerabilities in the CUPS printing system, which is used under Linux and Unix. Under certain circumstances, these can be used for remote code execution (RCE) attacks.
Microsoft responds to Linux boot bricked by Windows August 2024 update
[German]The August 2024 updates for Windows have caused collateral damage for Linux users. By switching the boot mechanism to Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT), the Linux boot loader refused to start on dual-boot systems following the update installation. Microsoft has … Continue reading
Windows August 2024 update 'paralyzes' Linux boot
[German]Users who use Windows and Linux via Secure Boot on computers are likely to have a problem since August 13, 2024. Microsoft has changed something in the boot process with the August 2024 Patchday and switched boot entries from DBX … Continue reading
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regreSSHion: Critical OpenSSH server vulnerability CVE-2024-6387
[German]A critical vulnerability CVE-2024-6387 has been disclosed in OpenSSH servers. The vulnerability, known as regreSSHion, allows remote unauthenticated code execution – and security firms have found over 14 million potentially vulnerable OpenSSH servers on the internet. However, the risk should … Continue reading
Linux: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma; compromise of SSH servers
[German]As of Friday, March 29, 2024, Red Hat has published a warning. The latest versions of the "xz" tools and libraries contain malicious code, a backdoor, which is apparently intended to allow unauthorized access. Affected by the backdoor (vulnerability CVE-2024-3094) … Continue reading