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It’s not just Windows anymore: Samba has a major SMB bug | ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/article/its-not-just-windows-anymore-samba-has-a-major-smb-bug/ The other week, Microsoft got its security teeth kicked in when an old SMB security hole was exploited by the WannaCry ransomware attack. This week, it’s the turn of Samba, the popular open-source SMB server. Like the WannaCry security hole, the good news is the Samba file-sharing bug has already been fixed. The bad news is you

An introduction to Linux’s EXT4 filesystem | Opensource.com

https://opensource.com/article/17/5/introduction-ext4-filesystem?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY The EXT4 filesystem primarily improves performance, reliability, and capacity. To improve reliability, metadata and journal checksums were added. To meet various mission-critical requirements, the filesystem timestamps were improved with the addition of intervals down to nanoseconds. The addition of two high-order bits in the timestamp field defers the Year 2038 problem until 2446—for EXT4 filesystems, at least.

Thunderbolt 3 is coming

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3198249/computers/how-thunderbolt-3-won-the-port-wars.html  On Wednesday, Intel announced it will integrate Thunderbolt 3 into future CPUs. More importantly, the company said it would open up the long-secret protocol to the world, royalty-free. A world where one USB-C connector does it all—today, and for many years to come. https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/envision-world-thunderbolt-3-everywhere/

Digital Marketing Mistakes

http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/6433-digital-marketing-mistakes-to-avoid.html This article lists 5 mistakes. For this list I can add two common mistakes advertises do quite often: Buy advertisement on web site, get some users to click, but have incorrect URL on advertisement – users do not get forwarded to page you wanted them to go – money is spent on advertisement, no

Fight ransomware: Run Windows in Linux as a virtual machine

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3197628/linux/fight-ransomware-by-running-windows-in-linux-as-a-virtual-machine.html Running Windows as a virtual machine in Linux may seems like unnecessary work until something like the Wannacry ransomware scare comes along.  Despite its headaches, desktop Linux rarely is the target of malware. (When it is, it can generally present a smaller attack surface.)  And if you need to run applications in Windows, run