# Linux Action News 146

URL: /show/linux-action-news/146/
> Microsoft Defender for Linux is in preview, Mozilla's VPN has a secret advantage, and why the community is calling out NPM Inc.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 146
- Date: 2020-02-23
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:27:59
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/4b46e9ea-ec66-41c1-a768-da82811a91ce.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/e6sqvknAiU0





### Episode Links

  * [Microsoft: Linux Defender antivirus now in public preview](https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-linux-defender-antivirus-now-in-public-preview-ios-and-android-are-next/ "Microsoft: Linux Defender antivirus now in public preview") — We're aiming to protect the modern workplace environment across everything that it is, being Microsoft or non-Microsoft.
  * [Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise](https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/02/20/microsoft-threat-protection-intelligence-automation/ "Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise")
  * [Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint now live under one App](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/20/microsoft_mobile_office_app_live/ "Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint now live under one App")
  * [Microsoft Works - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works "Microsoft Works - Wikipedia")
  * [Firefox releases an Android app for its VPN service](https://www.xda-developers.com/firefox-releases-an-android-app-for-its-vpn-service/ "Firefox releases an Android app for its VPN service") — The Firefox Private Network VPN is powered by Mullvad VPN. Mullvad VPN claims that it won’t log and monitor user data, unlike many other VPN services. 
  * [The Private Internet Access Android app is being open sourced](https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2020/02/the-private-internet-access-android-app-is-being-open-sourced/ "The Private Internet Access Android app is being open sourced")
  * [IVPN applications are now open source](https://www.ivpn.net/blog/ivpn-applications-are-now-open-source "IVPN applications are now open source")
  * [Tom Scott video about VPNs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY "Tom Scott video about VPNs")
  * [Android 11 Developer Preview](https://www.xda-developers.com/android-11-developer-preview-changes/ "Android 11 Developer Preview") — All the changes we found from Android 10 so far.
  * [npm struggling to fund FOSS devs](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/22/npm_funding_source/ "npm struggling to fund FOSS devs") — Funding free software is 'still a very unsolved problem' says co-founder
  * [The Linux Foundation and Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science Release Census for Open Source Software Security](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2020/02/the-linux-foundation-and-harvards-lab-for-innovation-science-release-census-for-open-source-software-security/ "The Linux Foundation and Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science Release Census for Open Source Software Security") — New analysis identifies most widely used software and uncovers critical questions for the future of securing one of the world’s greatest shared resources
  * [The Linux Foundation identifies most important open-source software components and their problems](https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-linux-foundation-identifies-the-most-important-open-source-software-components-and-their-problems/ "The Linux Foundation identifies most important open-source software components and their problems") — In its latest study, the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative discovered just how prevalent open-source components are in all software and their shared problems and vulnerabilities.
  * [Most-used libraries revealed](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/20/linux_foundation_report/ "Most-used libraries revealed")
  * [The Linux Foundation and Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science release census for open-source software security](https://lwn.net/Articles/812781/#Comments "The Linux Foundation and Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science release census for open-source software security") — Census II (run by Harvard) wanted to look at language-level packages. Their report discusses some of the challenges. One challenge of many is that the JavaScript environment strongly encourages tiny modules, with around 1/2 of all JavaScript packages having at most one function. As a result, when you start counting dependencies, there are *far* more dependencies in JavaScript (because each module does so little), and so JavaScript tends to dominate.