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Tails 4.0 Released

Tails is one of the best security-centric Linux distributions. Tails team has released its first version based on Debian 10 “buster”. This released has been packed with a bunch of security fixes, new features, performance improvements, and the latest applications. What’s New In Tails 4.0 Security Fixes First thing first, Tails 3.16 was vulnerable with multiple security issues including issues with popular applications like Libreoffice, Samba, FFmpeg, OpenSSL, etc. Tails 4.0 packs a

What's New In Ubuntu 19.10 'Eoan Ermine'

Canonical has reached one more step close to an LTS release by releasing Ubuntu 19.10 ‘Eoan Ermine’. Eoan Ermine has been released with some new features and overall system improvements. You can upgrade from short term release to test out the new distro. Though I don’t think it’s worth upgrading from a long term release to a short term release. If you are using an Ubuntu LTS, you can install Ubuntu 19.10 in a VM and continue to use LTS distro. What’s New In Ubuntu 19.10 Suppo

Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" Released

Linux mint 19.2 “Tina” was released yesterday with a number of new features and a collection of system improvements. The new Mint focuses on making the distro more stable, customizable and user friendly. It improves the features added in its predecessor Linux Mint 19.0 and 19.1. What’s New In Linux Mint 19.2 “Tina” Better Kernel Management Right From Update Manager The very first thing that one would notice after the first boot is the update manager. From the ke

Deepin OS - First Distro To Bring Cloud Sync Option

Deepin OS is one of the most modern-looking Linux distros. If you are a fan of sleek design and an easy-to-use distro, then get your hands on Deepin. It is also extremely easy to install. I am sure you’ll love it. The team has developed its own desktop environment based on Qt and also uses KDE plasma’s window manager, aka. dde-kwin. Deepin team has also developed 30 native applications for users to make day-to-day tasks easier to complete. Some of the native deepin applications

Cyberattack on Elasticseach Databases turns DBs into Zombies/Botnets

Recently a new cyberattack was added to the list of Elasticsearch, which is making Elasticsearch databases into Zombies or botnets. There is a list of attacks conducted on Elasticsearch databases in the past few years. The new one raises more tension among security experts due to its complexity and different tactics to evade the security system and carry forward the attack successfully. Elasticsearch is a popular tool that helps companies managing billions of records in the database

Critical Vulnerability Found In Ad Inserter Wordpress Plugin

Ad inserter is a popular plugin for WordPress users. With this plugin, site administrators can easily manage ads on their websites. Update Ad inserter If you are using Ad inserter on your website, update the plugin to the latest version now. You can continue reading this post after the update. 🙂 On July 12, Wordfence team(Another popular security plugin for WordPress), discovered a vulnerability called RCE — Remote Code Execution in Ad inserter. This vulnerability can allow an

Ubuntu To Provide NVIDIA Drivers Updates To Ubuntu LTS Users

Ubuntu has been a good choice to switch to Linux from other operating systems. The only thing that has stopped people is the hardware updates. However, there were NVIDIA drivers updates available but through third-party PPAs. But no more installation of third-party PPAs in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Ubuntu will provide the latest NVIDIA drivers updates to its long-term release users starting from its latest LTS release, Ubuntu 18.04. The big news was announced through Ubuntu’s Twitter accoun

Kali Linux Released For Raspberry Pi

Last month, June Raspberry Pi foundation released RPi 4 with more memory options and useful features. Recently Kali Linux announced the release of its Kali Linux images for Raspberry Pi. Recently, Kali Linux tweeted the news of releasing the pentesting distro for RPi and got a good response from its followers. For those of you wondering, Raspberry Pi 4 support is coming soon! We are working on it. — Kali Linux (@kalilinux) June 29, 2019 Kali Linux is the most popular penetra

Debian 10 'Buster' Released After 2 Years Development

Debian is one of the most important Linux distributions for the Linux community. Most popular Linux distros are based on Debian, including Ubuntu that most of us use. Debian team has released the most awaited release — Debian 10 “Buster”. It came up after 25 months of development. Because of such a long time development, over 62% of packages have received updated versions and include over 13370 new packages in the repositories. What is new in Debian 10 “Buster” As always in th

Endeavour OS - Ready To Be Released

One of our favorite Arch-based Linux distros, Antergos, was discontinued recently. All those using Antergos are another distro ready to take place as a user-friendly Arch Linux distro, EndeavourOS. * * * * * * * * EndeavourOS promises to provide an easier way to install and use Arch Linux, just as Antergos did. Their commitment is to answer every question in a friendly manner so that users can learn Arch easily and quickly. EndeavourOS Ships With XFCE XFCE

Race Stupid With AI In MayHemCars

Hello, Linux gamers! Today, I’ll be covering a car racing game called MayHemCars. The game is unique and hilarious too. Instead of trying to win, the other racers bump and crash on each other. You better watch out, or they’ll try to ram you off the tracks too. If you are looking for a hilarious car racing game instead of “winning” as the sole objective, then this game is a must-try. Install MayHemCars MayHemCars is available on itch, and below is the link for the game’s itch p

Steam To Drop Support For Ubuntu 19.10

Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution and that’s why it gets the attention of big companies like steam to design software for it. But recently, Linux community is kind of unhappy over Canonical decision on dropping Ubuntu 32-bit packages. The community already discussed that in case Ubuntu drops 32-bit packages support in upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 or future releases, it’d create big problems including Wine users and Linux gamers. And here comes the first news from Steam, the gaming p