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I also have a video version of this post (in case youre more visually inclined): Red Hat and CentOS When Red Hat took over the CentOS project back in 2014, there was a mixed, but mostly positive reaction. The CentOS maintainers were sometimes having a hard time keeping up with upstream changes in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and major releases like version 7 and 8 were challenging due to the required architecture changes. So Red Hats willingness to come in and backstop CentOS was generally ...

ReFirm Labs Announces New Binwalk Platform to Build On Its 50,000 Open Source Users and Address Growing Enterprise IoT Security Threats Share Article Device security solution reveals that 25 percent of corporate network, IoT and embedded devices are exploitable Binwalk Enterprise is like taking a blacklight to a hotel room — youre going to see a lot of things you wished you hadn’t. FULTON, Md. (PRWEB) January 28, 2021 ReFirm La...

By Gerry Gebel Jan 26, 2021 In many ways, the federal government’s IT challenges are similar to those of commercial businesses. Both sectors know that as technologies and data sources grow and evolve, updating legacy IT technologies is critical. As a result, government agencies have been investing in modern technologies for several years. However, an increase in spending has not resulted in agile operations, more secure data or almost any return on investment. Why is that? According to a rece...

Google has decided to stop active development on its virtual reality program Tilt Brush. It has made the source code publicly available on GitHub so that the community can continue working on it.

By GCN Staff Code42 Software’s Code42 Gov is a FedRAMP-authorized SaaS that proactively manages insider risk by protecting sensitive and strategic data from theft by detects endpoint exfiltration events including USB, cloud sync applications, Airdrop web browsers and other web apps. It is authorized for moderate-impact workloads. EnergyCAP’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) energy management information solution has been granted a FedRAMP authorization to operate at the low impact level. The ...

By GCN Staff Jan 26, 2021 With the growing amount of data, video, and information services (DV&IS) in the communications ecosystem, public safety agencies need priority access to advanced services to support national security and emergency response and recovery. To further that goal, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is seeking feedback on a potential new requirement for two programs it manages: the Next Generation Network Priority Service  (NGN PS ) and the Telecommunicatio...

Thunderbird is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser. Thunderbird gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, and more.

Developers are invited to the 2021 Joint ASF – OGC – OSGeo Code Sprint Published January 27, 2021 Done Code sprint will advance multiple ASF, OSGeo projects, and OGC standards - including OGC API standards, the building blocks for location. 27 January 2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), and Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) invite software developers to a joint Virtual Code Sprint on the 17th-19th of February, 202...

Rambox for Linux Publishers Description Rambox is a Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one. Use AIM, Slack, WhatsApp, GroupMe, Facebook Messenger, Gmail, Outlook, Telegram, and other services in an all in one app. Its perfect for people who work with many services for business and private accounts.

PDFsam, a desktop application to extract pages, split, merge, mix and rotate PDF files.