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May 26, 2021 India has made new and stricter IT rules that require instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp to aid in identifying the ‘originator’ of messages. WhatsApp seeing this as a breach of their users privacy has petitioned in the Delhi High court against this act.  The petition challenges the constitutional validity of rules which will be effective from May 26th. The complaint was filed on 25th.  “Requiring messaging apps to ‘trace’ chats is equivalent to asking us to ke...

5 days ago WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against the Indian government over the new IT Rules 2021 stating that the rules will compel the messaging platform to break privacy protections, Reuters reported earlier today. The filing comes a day after the deadline to comply with the new rules passed. Download a copy of WhatsApp’s petition here. A WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed this news with MediaNama saying that traceability “fundamentally undermines people’s right to privacy.” Traceability ma...

Situating the role of FOSS in India’s digital economy × India has a unique opportunity to harness Free and Open Source Software to become technologically self-reliant and catalyse our digital growth One of the most awe-inspiring tech developments in the last 20 years has been the rapid growth of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) worldwide. FOSS is a software movement that promotes freely licensing, copying, studying, changing, improving, and redistributing code. The source code of a myri...

Microsoft patches three zero-days in May 2021 Patch Tuesday update Events About If you already have an account please use the link below to sign in. If you have any problems with your access or would like to request an individual access account please contact our customer service team. Microsoft patches three zero-days in May 2021 Patch Tuesday update Security update includes patches for Windows, Internet Explorer, Exchange Server, Office, .NET Core, Visual Studio, SharePoint Server, Hyper-V, S...

Posted May 6th, 2021 for Percona Raleigh, NC – May 6, 2021 – Enterprises have a deep appreciation for the value of open source software with 100% of the information technology (IT) decision-makers in a recent survey saying that “using open source provides benefits for their organization.” The survey of 200 IT decision-makers was conducted over the past month by Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Percona , a leader in open source database software and services. Over the past disrupt...

Microsoft’s May 2021 Patch Tuesday updates include fixes for four critical security vulnerabilities. Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday release addressed a modest 55 cybersecurity vulnerabilities, including just four critical bugs. It’s the smallest monthly update from the computing giant since 2020, but it does contain a patch for a concerning wormable vulnerability found in the Windows OS. The good news is that none of the vulnerabilities are being actively exploited in the wild, according t...

This month brought patches for 55 CVEs in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, .NET Core and Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, SharePoint Server, Hyper-V, Skype for Business and Microsoft Lync, Open Source Software, and Exchange Server. Fifty of these vulnerabilities are classified as Important in severity, one as Moderate. One concerning CVE to prioritize is CVE-2021-31166, a critical remote code execution flaw in the HTTP protocol stack with a CVSS score of 9.8. An attack using this would b...

iTWire Wednesday, 05 May 2021 09:31 Veteran Linux developer releases research on FOSS foundations Shares Martin Michlmayr: "I thought it would be interesting to study the role FOSS foundations play in making open source projects more sustainable and successful." Supplied Veteran Debian developer Martin Michlmayr has released two reports on foundations that support free and open source software, a primer that covers non-technical aspects and a research report that looks at t...

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The University of Minnesota Banned by Linux – Why Open Source is Problematic Recently, two researchers from the University of Minnesota and fellow graduates could upload intentionally buggy code and junk code into the Linux Kernel and accepted by the community. Why did the researchers do this, how did the Linux community react, and what does this demonstrate about open source software? Researchers Upload Buggy Code to Demonstrate Security Flaws Recently, a paper was released by the University...