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gamescom 2017: Where to watch the Age of Empires livestream

2017-08-19 KENNETH 0

gamescom 2017: Where to watch the Age of Empires livestream The livestream begins Monday, August 21 at 9 p.m. CEST, 12 p.m. PDT, you’ll be able to watch the livestream on the Windows Mixer channel and Windows Facebook. In the livestream we’ll give a first-look and hands-on preview with the recently announced Age of Empires: Definitive Edition and revealing some exciting news about the Age of Empires franchise and more! 20 years after its launch on PC in 1997, we announced at E3 2017 that Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is coming exclusively to Windows 10, with a closed beta available for registration now. Created as an homage to fans of the series and PC gamers everywhere, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition will bring back the original Age of Empires and its Rise of Rome expansion with 16 civilizations to [ more… ]

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USN-3396-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

2017-08-18 KENNETH 0

USN-3396-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3396-1 18th August, 2017 openjdk-7 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 7. Software description openjdk-7 – Open Source Java implementation Details It was discovered that the JPEGImageReader class in OpenJDK wouldincorrectly read unused image data. An attacker could use this to speciallyconstruct a jpeg image file that when opened by a Java application wouldcause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-10053) It was discovered that the JAR verifier in OpenJDK did not properly handlearchives containing files missing digests. An attacker could use this tomodify the signed contents of a JAR file. (CVE-2017-10067) It was discovered that integer overflows existed in the Hotspot componentof OpenJDK when generating range check loop predicates. An attacker coulduse this to specially construct an [ more… ]

Using Packer and Terraform for High Availability of NGINX Plus on Google Cloud Engine

2017-08-18 KENNETH 0

Using Packer and Terraform for High Availability of NGINX Plus on Google Cloud Engine Introduction This post describes a high availability, all-active autoscaling solution based on NGINX Plus. (You can also use the open source NGINX software, except where noted.) This solution runs on the Google Compute Engine (GCE), which is the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) product for running workloads on virtual machines (VMs). High availability, all-active auto scaling solutions are increasingly becoming the norm in the current DevOps landscape. High availability deployments use active health checks to restart unhealthy instances. Combined with an all-active solution, this ensures that there will always be an NGINX Plus server available for client access. At the same time, autoscaling helps reduce deployment costs by adjusting the number of instances to the right number for the current workload, based on a wide range of [ more… ]

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USN-3391-3: Firefox regression

2017-08-18 KENNETH 0

USN-3391-3: Firefox regression Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3391-3 17th August, 2017 firefox regression A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary USN-3391-1 introduced a regression in Firefox. Software description firefox – Mozilla Open Source web browser Details USN-3391-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced aperformance regression with WebExtensions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, bypass sandbox restrictions, obtain sensitive information, spoof the origin of modal alerts, bypass same origin restrictions, read uninitialized memory, cause a denial of service via program crash or hang, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7753, CVE-2017-7779, CVE-2017-7780, [ more… ]

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RHSA-2017:2491-1: Important: rh-git29-git security update

2017-08-18 KENNETH 0

RHSA-2017:2491-1: Important: rh-git29-git security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for rh-git29-git is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. CVE-2017-1000117, CVE-2017-8386 Source: RHSA-2017:2491-1: Important: rh-git29-git security update