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People of WordPress: Meher Bala

2022-04-30 KENNETH 0

People of WordPress: Meher Bala In this series, we share some of the inspiring stories of how WordPress and its global network of contributors can change people’s lives for the better. This month we feature a Indian-based WordPress developer and long term contributor on how it helped her find a career and a local and global community to belong to. WordPress is an inspiration to Meher Bala, a frontend web developer and community builder from India. From using the software as a basic website tool to helping entrepreneurs and good causes around the world fulfill their aspirations, she has overcome personal barriers and now aims to inspire others. Meher found her vocation and learned new skills through WordPress. She also discovered a way to encourage other women to consider careers in IT.  Finding her interests As a child, Meher was [ more… ]

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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22610

2022-04-30 KENNETH 0

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22610 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22610 to the Dev and Beta Channels. TL;DR This build introduces some new group policies for IT administrators and an update to the Family Safety Widget. This build also includes another good set of fixes that will improve your overall experience. This build includes two new known issues that will impact Windows Insiders – please read the known issues list below. We have marked the new known issues as [NEW]. One of these known issues impacts the hidden icons flyout in the system tray. What’s new in Build 22610 Additional new MDM and group policies for IT administrators We are introducing new policies so that IT administrators can simplify their Windows 11 experience across Start, taskbar, and the system tray. The [ more… ]

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USN-5398-1: Simple DirectMedia Layer vulnerability

2022-04-29 KENNETH 0

USN-5398-1: Simple DirectMedia Layer vulnerability It was discovered that SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Source: USN-5398-1: Simple DirectMedia Layer vulnerability

Announcing Version 1.0.0 of the NGINX Modern Apps Reference Architecture

2022-04-29 KENNETH 0

Announcing Version 1.0.0 of the NGINX Modern Apps Reference Architecture We were upfront with our design goals when we unveiled the NGINX Modern Applications Reference Architecture (MARA) at Sprint 2.0 in August of 2021. We wanted to create an example of a modern application architecture running in Kubernetes and designed to support security, scalability, reliability, monitoring, and introspection. This project needed to be deployable across different infrastructures with a “plug and play” approach to combining functional components without time‑consuming integration efforts. In the months since Sprint, we have been moving forward with our roadmap. Like any project, we have had our share of success and failure and have worked our successes into MARA while keeping a growing list of lessons learned. We hope that we may keep others from hitting the same problems by documenting these issues and designing with these lessons in [ more… ]

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USN-5397-1: curl vulnerabilities

2022-04-29 KENNETH 0

USN-5397-1: curl vulnerabilities Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain OAUTH2. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. (CVE-2022-22576) Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2022-27774, CVE-2022-27775, CVE-2022-27776) Source: USN-5397-1: curl vulnerabilities