'Linux 5.1 continues the massive undertaking in preparing the kernel
for the Year 2038 problem. Phoronix:
The Linux kernel has been seeing "Y2038" work for years and the effort
is far from over. Thomas Gleixner (a Linux kernel developer who serves
as a member of the technical advisory board at The Linux Foundation)
sent in the latest Y2038 work for the Linux 5.1 kernel, which after a
lot of ground work in previous kernels has introduced the first set of
syscalls that are Year 2038 safe.'
-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/03/05/1929233
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
'A seemingly complex set of characters like "ji32k7au4a83" is a very
common password among users, it turns out. From a report:
This interesting bit of trivia comes from self-described
hardware/software engineer Robert Ou, who recently asked his Twitter
followers if they could explain why this seemingly random string of
numbers has been seen by Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) over a hundred
times.
Have I Been Pwned is an aggregator that was started by security expert
Troy Hunt to help people find out if their email or personal data has
shown up in any prominent data breaches. One service it offers is a
password search that allows you to check if your password has shown up
in any data breaches that are on the radar of the security community.
In this case, "ji32k7au4a83" has been seen by HIBP in 141 breaches.
Several of Ou's followers quickly figured out the solution to his
riddle. The password is coming from the Zhuyin Fuhao system for
transliterating Mandarin. The reason it's showing up fairly often in a
data breach repository is because "ji32k7au4a83" translates to English
as "my password."'
-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/03/05/203253
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
'Linus Torvalds has released Linux 5.0 in kicking off the kernel's
28th year of development. Linux 5.0 features include AMD FreeSync
support, open-source NVIDIA Turing GPU support, Intel Icelake
graphics, Intel VT-d scalable mode, NXP PowerPC processors are now
mitigated for Spectre Variant Two, and countless other additions.
eWeek adds:
Among the new features that have landed in Linux 5.0 is support for
the Adiantum encryption system, developed by Google for low power
devices. Google's Android mobile operating system and ChromeOS desktop
operating system both rely on the Linux kernel. "Storage encryption
protects your data if your phone falls into someone else's hands,"
Paul Crowley and Eric Biggers, Android Security and Privacy Team at
Google wrote in a blog post. "Adiantum is an innovation in
cryptography designed to make storage encryption more efficient for
devices without cryptographic acceleration, to ensure that all devices
can be encrypted. Memory management in Linux also gets a boost in the
5.0 kernel with a series of improvements designed to help prevent
memory fragmentation, which can reduce performance.'
-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/03/04/1329227
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
