Torrent Websites Infect 12 Million Users a Month With Malware

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December 14, 2015

If you visit torrent search websites to pirate software, the risk isn’t only through the law. Hundreds of websites used to find links to torrent files for downloading pirated content are serving millions of visitors malware every month, new research has discovered.

While there is a current misconception that torrent search websites — such as the Pirate Bay and KickAss Torrents — are only used to facilitate piracy, this isn’t the case. Torrent files facilitate the download of large files across peer-to-peer networking, and in itself this technology is not illegal and can be highly useful in finding license-free content or sharing large files with one another.

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Will Have a Pressure-Sensing Screen: WSJ

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The Verge

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December 14, 2015

verge-020.0.0.0 Samsung’s Galaxy S7 is coming in March and will feature a pressure-sensitive screen similar to the 3D Touch display Apple introduced with the iPhone 6S, The Wall Street Journal reports. Like Samsung’s current flagship, the Galaxy S6, the S7 will also reportedly have an “Edge” variant with a curved screen; one source says the regular, non-Edge version is likely to have expandable storage, unlike both S6 models.

The WSJ says the S7 will look “largely similar” to the S6, but while the camera is said to have been improved, there will reportedly be no “bump” on the back of the phone to accommodate the optics.

10 Helpful Tools for a Sys Admin’s Toolbox

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OpenSource.com

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December 14, 2015

osdc-open-source-yearbook-lead6 Sys admins, no matter what platforms they work on, are awash in great open source software tools. In this article, we highlight well-known—and not-so-well-known—tools that have released new versions in 2015.

BlackBox

Managing secrets is tough, especially when the secrets need to end up on a server. That’s why Stack Exchange developed the BlackBox utility. BlackBox uses GNU Privacy Guard…

How To Find Out if AES-NI (Advanced Encryption) Enabled on Linux System

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Vivek Gite

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December 14, 2015

The Intel Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) or New Instructions (AES-NI) engine enables extremely fast hardware encryption and decryption for openssl, ssh, vpn, Linux full disk encryption and more. How do I check support for Intel or AMD AES-NI is loaded in my running Linux in my Linux based system including openssl?

Try a Fresh Web Browser!

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Steve Emms

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December 14, 2015

The web browser market is dominated by a few mature heavyweights: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. But they are not for everyone. And there are a myriad of other web browsers that are worth investigating. With a smorgasbord of web browsers out there, there should be one to cater for your own specific requirements. If you want to experiment with some fresh and innovative web browsers, this article should be helpful.

There are good reasons to experiment with alternative web browsers. As they have a much smaller user base, they are less susceptible to being targeted by spyware and other nasties. Alternatively, you might choose to use more than one web browser for different purposes, which can help combine speed and reliability. You might want to use one for business, work and school, another for general use, one only for your social media interactions. Developers of new web browsers are often more willing to experiment with new ideas.

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Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.4 RC5, Final Release Coming Early 2016

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Softpedia

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December 14, 2015

A few moments ago, December 14, the father of the Linux kernel, Mr. Linus Torvalds, was proud to announce the release and immediate availability for download and testing of the fifth RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming Linux 4.4 LTS kernel. According to Mr. Torvalds, Linux kernel 4.4 LTS Release Candidate 5 is yet another normal release that consists of assorted bugfixes and core improvements. Nothing stands out in RC5 with the exception of a fairly bad core bug introduced in the previous Release Candidate build, which has now been fixed.

Idea – Icons To Remember The Basic Programming Functions

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Per Lindholm

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December 13, 2015

The idea is simple. Learning a programming language as a novice can be difficult. I therefore wonder if we can make it easier for them. Maybe its easy as associate an image or an icon with the keywords. So for the control flow statement ‘for’ I made a quick example icon. Here ‘i’ is the variable that goes from start to end and ‘for’ is the keyword.

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You Can Now Have All the Fedora 23 Linux Editions Into a Single Live ISO Image

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Softpedia

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December 12, 2015

fedora-23-linux-editions-into-a-single-live-iso-image Today, December 12, we’ve been informed by the developers of the Linux AIO project about the release and immediate availability for download of Linux AIO Fedora 23 Live DVDs.

The new build of the Linux AIO Fedora Live DVD is now based on the latest stable Fedora Linux release, Fedora 23, and includes all the important editions, such as Fedora 23 Workstation (GNOM),, Fedora 23 KDE, Fedora 23 MATE Compiz, Fedora 23 Xfce, Fedora 23 Cinnamon, as well as Fedora 23 LXDE. There are two Linux AIO Fedora 23 Live DVD ISO images available for download…

How to use snapshots, clones and replication in ZFS on Linux

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Falko Timme

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December 12, 2015

In the previous tutorial, we learned how to create zpool’s and a ZFS filesystem or dataset. In this tutorial, I will show you step by step how to work with ZFS snapshots, clones, and replication. Snapshot, clone and replication are the most powerful features of the ZFS filesystem.

DevopsWiki A list of Linux programming and administrator guides for those interested in Devops

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Leo G

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December 12, 2015

The DevopWiki is a Github project with list of Bash/Python/C programming tutorials, Linux system administration Guides and Scripts. It can be cloned and used by anyone who is interested in Linux system administration. See more at

https://github.com/Leo-G/DevopsWiki