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Demand for Linux jobs shooting up fast

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The Linux Foundation released a report this week that says employees with Linux skills are in high demand, with hiring managers working hard to bring them in.

If you're an open-source expert, the job market is your oyster the Linux Foundation released a report this week that says that employees with Linux skills are in high demand, with hiring managers working hard to bring them in.

According to the survey, the prevalence of open-source in the cloud and other important areas of business technology is helping to push the demand for Linux- and open-source-savvy workers higher. Forty-two percent of respondents said that CloudStack or OpenStack experience would be a valuable addition to a resume, and 19% said the same about open-source SDN skills.

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Demand is higher than supply, according to the Linux Foundation. Nearly nine in 10 88% - of hiring managers said that it's difficult to find workers with those qualifications, and 70% said that they're working hard to retain the open-source talent they already have, by offering better pay and more flexible working schedules.

Nine out of 10 Linux-skilled workers who responded to the survey said that those skills had helped them advance their careers, and 55% said that they expected finding a new job would be relatively easy in 2015.

Jay Lyman, an open-source analyst with 451 Research, said that the survey's findings are similar to his understanding of the job market as it relates to open-source technology.

"We certainly see continued demand and dearth for talent when it comes to open source cloud software such as OpenStack, which is consistent with the report," he said. "I also think that Linux and open source software are intertwined with some key trends -- cloud computing, DevOps and big data for example -- that continue to drive this type of demand for experience and talent."

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FREAK show: Apple and Android SSL WIDE OPEN to snoopers

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Security researchers are warning of a flaw in OpenSSL and Apple's SecureTransport a hangover from the days when the US government was twitchy about the spread of cryptography.

It's a flaw that allows an attacker to decrypt your login cookies, and other sensitive information, from your HTTPS connections if you use a vulnerable browser such as Safari.

Apple's SecureTransport is a library used by applications on iOS and OS X, including Safari for iPhones, iPads and Macs. OpenSSL is open source, and used by Android browsers, and many other things.

OpenSSL and SecureTransport encrypt connections to online banking, webmail, and other HTTPS websites, and so much else on the internet, to thwart eavesdroppers.

It turns out the encryption used by OpenSSL and SecureTransport can be crippled by an attacker on your network: apps can be tricked into using weak encryption keys, allowing determined miscreants to pluck login cookies and other sensitive information out of your SSL-protected traffic.

"A connection is vulnerable if the server accepts RSA_EXPORT cipher suites and the client either offers an RSA_EXPORT suite or is using a version of OpenSSL that is vulnerable to CVE-2015-0204," according to freakattack.com, a website explaining the security flaw.

"Vulnerable clients include many Google and Apple devices (which use unpatched OpenSSL), a large number of embedded systems, and many other software products that use TLS behind the scenes without disabling the vulnerable cryptographic suites."

You can visit freakattack.com to check if your web browser is vulnerable. Reg readers have told us that Google Chrome for OS X prior to version 41.0.2272.76, BlackBerry OS 10.3, and Internet Explorer 11 in the Windows 10 Technical Preview, are flagged up as vulnerable.

Back in the early 1990s, the US government banned Americans from selling software overseas unless the code used so-called "export cipher suites" that involved encryption keys no longer than 512 bits.

At the time, this was supposed to ensure that Uncle Sam exported relatively weak encryption to the rest of the world, and kept the stronger stuff for itself.

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