ICANN Calls on APAC to Help End US Stewardship

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January 31, 2016

Asia-Pacific nations must help shape the future of the internet and facilitate the development of multi-stakeholder internet governance, says ICANN, as it readies its proposal for US stewardship transfer.

With the administrative functions for the world’s web traffic still under US jurisdiction, ICANN is urging Asia-Pacific nations to take a more active role in “facilitating the development of multi-stakeholder internet governance”. It underscored the region’s sizeable and increasing online presence, and called on its governments to ensure the global internet infrastructure would continue to support critical functions and businesses.

Read more at ZDNet News

This Week in Linux News: Microsoft’s New Cloud/Datacenter Product to Include Ubuntu Linux, New Trojan Backdoor Command, & More

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The Linux Foundation

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January 29, 2016

ubuntu AM copy This week in Linux news, Microsoft’s new product will include Ubuntu Linux, a new trojan backdoor command lets cyber-criminals take control, and more! Get up to speed on the latest Linux news with this digest.

1) Microsoft announces the arrival of the first Technical Preview of its hybrid cloud/datacenter product is coming this week, which will include Ubuntu Linux.

Ubuntu Linux and Open Source Play Key Role in Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview– BetaNews

2) Newly-discovered Trojan backdoor command allows owner to remain semi-anonymous.

A Simple And Efficient Linux Backdoor Trojan Discovered– TechWorm

3) Microsoft’s new MCSA ” Linux on Azure” certification is designed to train individuals for the growing demand for Linux skills on the Azure platform.

Why Linux Users Should Care About Microsoft’s New Certification– DABCC

4) IBM’s reveals new features for its LinuxONE systems, with the spotlight on hybrid cloud capabilities.

IBM Mainframes Get Open Source Revamp With Ubuntu Linux Support– Computer Business Review

5) A new initiative by AMD to create an open source toolchain for GPU development could make machine learning frameworks easier to develop.

AMD Places Hopes for Machine Learning — And Moneymaking — in GPUOpen– InfoWorld

Critical OpenSSL Patch Available. Patch Now!

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The Linux Foundation

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January 29, 2016

The OpenSSL team released a critical security update today. The update patches 6 flaws. One of the flaws (CVE-2014-0195) may lead to arbitrary code execution. [1] All versions of OpenSSL are vulnerable to CVE-2014-0195, but this vulnerability only affects DTLS clients or servers (look for SSL VPNs… not so much HTTPS).

I also rated CVE-2014-0224 critical, since it does allow for MiTM attacks, one of the reasons you use SSL. But in order to exploit this issue, both client and server have to be vulnerable, and only openssl 1.0.1 is vulnerable on servers…

How to Install Piwik with Nginx on Ubuntu 15.10

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Falko Timme

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January 29, 2016

Piwik is the leading open source web analytics application, it has been developed to provide an alternative to google-analytics. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Piwik on ubuntu 15.10 with Nginx web server and PHP 5.6 in php-fpm mode. We will use MariaDB as the database system.

The State of Our Encryption Isn’t Strong, But It’s Getting Better

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The Linux Foundation

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January 29, 2016

Sophos recently released a report and infographic detailing encryption adoption in the enterprise. Here is how the numbers break out and what they mean.

In case you were unaware, January 28 marked national Data Privacy Day. On that day, security company Sophos released an infographic detailing some of the findings of its recent report, The State of Encryption Today. The survey collected answers from 1700 IT managers and found that 44% of organizations are using encryption extensively, while 43% were using encryption to some degree. Larger companies were more likely to use encryption, though…

What to Consider When Planning a Software-Defined WAN Deployment

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eWeek

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January 29, 2016

Wide-area networks using SDN achieve greater agility and flexibility. Read what network administrators should consider as they plan to deploy SD-WAN.

One of the biggest upheavals inside enterprise systems now involves networking. Old-school hardwiring is quickly being overtaken by new-generation, software-defined networks. For the vast number of enterprises of all sizes, this new world of software-defined networking (SDN) is attractive for a number of reasons—manageability and cost containment being chief among them. Software-defined wide-area networks (WANs) have roots in SDN, the underlying principle of which is to abstract the network hardware and transport characteristics from the applications that use the network.

Linux Mint Is Getting Its Own Apps Starting with the 18.x Branch

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Softpedia

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January 29, 2016

linux-mint-apps The Linux Mint project is about to get a lot more interesting because, with the 18.x branch, the developers are going to introduce the so-called X-Apps, which are designed to work across Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce.

The Linux Mint developers didn’t want to make their own apps, and they used different techniques to avoid this method, but the changes brought on by GNOME 3.18 and the Ubuntu base have modified the perspective. A lot of projects are doing their apps when they don’t find what they want. Distros like Manjaro, Solus, or elementary OS have their own…

Linux Hardware/Software Enthusiast Trends Over The Past Year

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Phoronix

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January 29, 2016

With the new OpenBenchmarking.org that’s coming soon, besides the UI refresh, restored search functionality, and other improvements, the statistics access has also been re-enabled.

Here’s a look at these trends for over the past 12 months. Keep in mind those running the Phoronix Test Suite aren’t your typical users but more along the lines of enthusiasts / power users or in the enterprise space by server administrators and other professionals.

Open Source Plugin Aims to Defeat Link Rot

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The Register

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January 29, 2016

A new open source plugin designed to prevent the creation of dead content links online â€“ so called “link rot” â€“ has launched. Amber has been designed by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and it provides what it calls a “persistent route” to information on the internet by automatically taking and retaining a snapshot of every page on a website and storing it on the same website’s server.

In other words, it’s a Wayback Machine for your own website. Or perhaps think of it as a mirror of your website with minimal fuss.

NSA’s Top Hacking Boss Explains How to Protect your Network

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The Register

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January 29, 2016

Usenix Enigma — The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is a notoriously secretive organization, but the head of its elite Tailored Access Operations (TAO) hacking team has appeared at Usenixâ€™s Enigma conference to tell the assembled security experts how to make his life difficult.

Rob Joyce has spent over a quarter of a century at No Such Agency and in 2013 he became head of TAO, with responsibility for breaking into non-US computer networks run by overseas companies and governments. Joyce’s presentation on network security at the event boiled down to one piece of advice.

â€œIf you really want to protect your network you have to know your network,…”