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A severe new Linux kernel vulnerability dubbed "Dirty Pipe" allows an attacker with read-only access mode to escalate privileges and gain root. The vulnerability exists in all Linux kernel versions from 5.8 forward. Exploitation is not challenging and although the attack requires local access the impact is
2,493 ASF committers and 9,604 authors changed 515 million lines of code in 2021. Here's what was most active.
AWS has come good on its December 2020 promise to open source a tool that lets users migrate SQL Server-based apps to the free and opensource PostgreSQL database with minimal drama, much to the delight of many in the industry -- a step that should prove of considerable interest to