Security: Patches, WireGuard, Web Browsers, and Red Hat
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (epiphany-browser, net-snmp, webkit2gtk, and wpewebkit), Fedora (python-yara and yara), Red Hat (kernel and kpatch-patch), SUSE (ceph, compat-openssl098, java-1_8_0-openjdk, kernel, python-Twisted, rsync, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (pyjwt and unbound).
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Open-Source VPN Protocols Compared: Why WireGuard is on the Rise! |...
WireGuard is built to be more efficient than OpenVPN and IKEv2, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will always perform better. Here, we will discuss how WireGuard holds up against OpenVPN and IKEv2.
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Wladimir Palant: Impact of extension privileges
As we’ve seen in the previous article, a browser extension isn’t very different from a website. It’s all the same HTML pages and JavaScript code. The code executes in the browser’s regular sandbox. So what can websites possibly gain by exploiting vulnerabilities in a browser extension?
Well, access to extension privileges of course. Browser extensions usually have lots of those, typically explicitly defined in the permissions entry of the extension manifest, but some are granted implicitly. Reason enough to take a closer look at some of these permissions and their potential for abuse.
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Streamlining IT security operations with Red Hat Insights and Red Hat Satellite
In this article, we explore what Red Hat Insights and Red Hat Satellite have to offer individually, and then we will look at how you can have a heightened experience of the two products with the use of Cloud Connector. We then evaluate both offerings by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of the tools for a better understanding of how they compare.
Insights and Satellite are frequently used by customers for a myriad of use cases — some similar and some vastly different — including managing their IT estate. Ultimately, customers are able to proactively streamline the security posture of their IT estate with both or either of these products.