Maintainers of Last Resort

Geomys is an organization of professional open source maintainers, focused on a portfolio of critical Go projects. For example, we are two thirds of the Go standard library cryptography maintainers, we provide the FIPS 140-3 validation of the upstream Go Cryptographic Module, and we fund the...

kernel: xfs: fix finding a last resort AG in xfs_filestream_pick_ag

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: fix finding a last resort AG in xfsfilestreampickag When the main loop in xfsfilestreampickag fails to find a suitable AG it tries to just pick the online AG. But the loop for that uses args-pag as loop iterator while the...

SUSE CVE-2024-50216

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: fix finding a last resort AG in xfsfilestreampickag When the main loop in xfsfilestreampickag fails to find a suitable AG it tries to just pick the online AG. But the loop for that uses args-pag as loop iterator while the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50216

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: fix finding a last resort AG in xfsfilestreampickag When the main loop in xfsfilestreampickag fails to find a suitable AG it tries to just pick the online AG. But the loop for that uses args-pag as loop iterator while the...

CVE-2024-50216

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: fix finding a last resort AG in xfsfilestreampickag When the main loop in xfsfilestreampickag fails to find a suitable AG it tries to just pick the online AG. But the loop for that uses args-pag as loop iterator while the...

Excerpts from The Ransomware Economy: Projections

Carbon Black recently published an investigative report on the Dark Web marketplace for ransomware. This is the final excerpt from that report, which you can find here. For more information about the rise of ransomware, and what you can do about it, check out the Ransomware Epidemic: Stop Bad...

Federal Reserve Admits It was Briefly Hacked During Super Bowl

Two days after the group Anonymous boasted it had broken into a government Web site and had the data dump to prove it, the U.S. Federal Reserve admitted it was hacked. “The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor...

Anonymous hackers deface United States Sentencing Commission website

Anonymous hackers deface the official website of U.S. Sentencing Commission website ussc.gov on Friday under a new campaign called "Operation Last Resort" in memory of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz and also threatening to release a massive WikiLeaks-style exposure of sensitive U.S. government...