Issue #205 / Dec 2017

Once it was announced to the public, the news of the KRACK attack spread quickly over the Internet – a flaw in the handshake system for wireless devices that allows an attacker to compromise encryption. According to reports, the attack puts almost all devices that engage in WPA2-encrypted wireless networking at risk.

Knoppix 8.1 (Multiarch Live) and Lubuntu 17.04 (32-bit Live)

Kubernetes 1.8 announced, final Ubuntu Desktop 17.10 Beta arrives, Linus Torvalds invites attackers to join the kernel community, Oracle donates Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation, and Microsoft is building a programming language for quantum computers. 

This month we discuss replacing the random number generator, checking when a process dumps core, fixing filesystem security issues, and adding build dependencies to clean the source tree.

Bitcoin is the king of cryptocurrencies, which makes it attractive prey for Internet predators. BitKey is a Live Linux distribution designed to ensure that your Bitcoin wallet stays protected.

The quintessential open source cloud platform unveils a new development model with its latest release.

If your hardware is causing trouble, good advice can be hard to find, but Linux users have a number of easily installed analysis tools to help systematically track down the root cause of problems. This month, we present a selection of these tools.

The smenu tool reduces the effort of creating shell menus to one line, with numerous options for a wide range of design alternatives.

HDF5 is a flexible, self-describing, and portable hierarchical filesystem supported by a number of languages and tools, with the ability to run processes in parallel.

Markov chains model systems that jump from state to state with predetermined probabilities, but can they help write new columns like this one after learning from previously written articles?