Daily Shaarli
June 27, 2021
Virtio-FS is a shared filesystem for letting local virtual machines access host directories.
Besides all the other improvements, SLE 15 SP3 is the first release that provides binary compatibility with the corresponding openSUSE Leap version 15.3.

Google announced »a simple, unified schema for describing vulnerabilities precisely. «
The paper describes Facebook's distributed file system called Tectonic. It can address and store exabytes with optimized resource utilization and less operational complexity.
»Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s dominance poses risks to the global economy, amid geopolitical tensions and a major chip shortage.«

The article looks at two recent backup issues: One caused by the retention time of iCloud backups and the other caused by the malicious remote factory reset of Western Digital My Book Live NAS, based on a three-year-old CVE that Western Digital never fixed.

traitor
checks for local misconfigurations and vulnerabilities and exploits them automatically to pop a root shell.
Rocky Linux 8.4, bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, is now generally available. The Rocky Linux community also provides a tool to aid the conversation from the 8.4 versions of Alma Linux, CentOS, RHEL, and Oracle Linux.
Debian is moving away from OpenGPG for repository signing.

GitHub Container registry supporting OCI images is now GA and comes with anonymous access for public containers, permission control for containers, and visibility independent of the repository. The existing Docker registry at docker.pkg.github.com
will be automatically migrated to the new container registry in the coming weeks.