Newsbytes
It may come as little surprise, but a security researcher has uncovered 40 unknown zero-day vulnerabilities in Tizen, the mobile operating system that runs on a number of Samsung devices. According to the person who found the vulnerabilities, Amihai Neiderman, “It may be the worst code I’ve ever seen... You can see that nobody with any understanding of security looked at this code or wrote it. It’s like taking an undergraduate and letting him program your software”. All the vulnerabilities Neiderman found would give hackers the ability to perform remote-code executions to hijack software running on other devices. Let’s hope these findings prompt Samsung to take the security of its smart devices more seriously. http://bit.ly/LXF224tizen
The results of Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey are in (see https://stackoverflow.com/
insights/survey/2017) with over 64,000 developers sharing details about their jobs. It will probably come as little surprise, but Linux remains incredibly popular with developers, with 26 percent of respondents saying it was their platform of choice. Linux was the second most popular platform after Windows (which got the nod from 32.4 percent of developers polled). While it’s a shame to see Microsoft’s OS in first place, the fact that Linux has such a large percentage of the vote among developers, considering its usage among the general population, is a testament to developers’ love of Linux.
Netflix now works on Linux via the Firefox browser. Linux users have been able to watch Netflix for a few years now, since the company began the transition from Microsoft’s Silverlight to HTML5 plugin-free playback across multiple platforms – but only if they were using Chrome. Netflix, in a blog post about the move ( http://nflx.it/2mRe5iI), said that “Plugin-free playback that works seamlessly on all major platforms helps us deliver compelling experiences no matter how you choose to watch.” Even Iron Fist?