Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A new vulnerability in Linux software can be exploited for local privilege escalation and to gain root privileges, Qualys researchers said. Read More.

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CTOvision

JULY 3, 2019

Over 30 VMware products are affected by SACK Panic and SACK Slowness, two recently disclosed Linux kernel vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely without authentication for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 27, 2021

Commentary: It's not really very interesting that University of Minnesota researchers introduced bugs into the Linux kernel. What matters is what would have happened next.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 21, 2021

While there are Linux distros designed to run on Arm hardware, Apple silicon is a different breed. However, Security researchers at Corellium have a working Linux port for Apple's M1 Macs. Apple has not made dual-booting easy on its newest Arm-based computers.

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The Verge

APRIL 14, 2022

That isn’t quite changing today — but a company called Lambda is now putting Ubuntu on a souped-up version of last year’s Razer Blade 15 Advanced with Razer’s full blessing, with the aim of selling it to machine learning and artificial intelligence researchers. pound chassis. Image: Razer x Lambda. A closer look at the Lambda Tensorbook.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

The University of Minnesota has been banned from contributing to the Linux kernel by one of its maintainers after researchers from the school apparently knowingly submitted code with security flaws. The university has put out a statement , saying it’s been made aware of the research and its subsequent ban from contributing.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I I suggest you find a different community to do experiments on,” wrote Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman in a livid email. None of the University of Minnesota researchers would talk to me for this story.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

THREAT REPORT: Exposing Malware in Linux-Based Multi-Cloud Environments 90% of cloud runs on Linux. Based on research conducted by the VMware Threat Analysis Unit, this report. Based on research conducted by the VMware Threat Analysis Unit, this report.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 4, 2023

The threat research team at Uptycs has discovered a new ransomware binary attributed to the RTM group, a known ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) provider. The post adds, "This is the first time the group has created a Linux binary. According to a post from Uptycs : " RTM Locker was identified during Uptycs' dark web hunting.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

A new Linux port allows Apple’s M1 Macs to run Ubuntu for the first time. While a number of M1 components are shared with Apple’s mobile chips, the non-standard chips made it challenging to create Linux drivers to get Ubuntu running properly. Linux is now completely usable on the Mac mini M1. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 21, 2023

ESET researchers have discovered a new Lazarus Group campaign targeting Linux users. In this case, we were able to reconstruct the full chain, from the ZIP file that delivers a fake HSBC job offer as a decoy, up until the final payload: the SimplexTea Linux backdoor distributed through an OpenDrive cloud storage account.

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CIO Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

Unix has become Linux, and it is running on an amazing variety of devices. New lineages of Linux have emerged.Some are highly specialized, some are more generic. I run Linux on a half dozen platforms at home. A quick google search revealed not one, but several Linux distros that will run on this unit. Circa 2009.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

90% of cloud runs on Linux, but current countermeasures are focused on addressing Windows-based threats, leaving multi-cloud deployments vulnerable to attacks. Based on research conducted by VMware’s Threat Analysis Unit, this eBook uncovers the unique characteristics of remote access tools.

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IT Toolbox

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Aberdeen Strategy & Research VP Jim Rapoza met with Chris Aniszczyk, the CTO of Linux Foundation, at the sidelines of KubeCon EU 2022 in Valencia to understand the importance of Kubernetes for today’s organizations.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Named 'LogoFAIL' by the researchers who created it, the exploit is said to be very easy to implement, potentially leaving users vulnerable to remote attacks by malicious actors. It is the combination of around two dozen vulnerabilities that were only recently discovered by cybersecurity researchers but are believed to have.

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Network World

AUGUST 15, 2018

Announced just yesterday in security advisories from Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat, a newly discovered vulnerability affecting Intel processors (and, thus, Linux) called L1TF or “L1 Terminal Fault” is grabbing the attention of Linux users and admins. Exactly what is this vulnerability and who should be worrying about it?

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Linux Academy

JULY 17, 2019

Linux Academy is officially a sponsor of Black Hat USA. Literally, you can win an extremely rare & enormous Linux Academy penguin. For more than 20 years, Black Hat has provided attendees with the very latest in information security research, development, and trends. The post Black Hat USA, Linux Academy’s next stop.

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Network World

AUGUST 15, 2018

Announced just yesterday in security advisories from Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat, a newly discovered vulnerability affecting Intel processors (and, thus, Linux) called L1TF or “L1 Terminal Fault” is grabbing the attention of Linux users and admins. Exactly what is this vulnerability and who should be worrying about it?

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Linux Academy

JULY 17, 2019

Linux Academy is officially a sponsor of Black Hat USA. Literally, you can win an extremely rare & enormous Linux Academy penguin. For more than 20 years, Black Hat has provided attendees with the very latest in information security research, development, and trends. The post Black Hat USA, Linux Academy’s next stop.

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TechSpot

JULY 17, 2023

A new botnet discovered by Black Lotus Labs – a threat research team from US telecommunications company Lumen Technologies – was so good at doing its job, it went undetected. Malicious firmware releases designed to compromise internet routers are nothing new at this point, and things are only getting worse. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JUNE 12, 2022

Intezer's Joakim Kennedy and the Blackberry Research and Intelligence Team discovered that the threat presents as a shared object library (SO) rather than a typical executable file that users must run to infect a host. Once infected, the SO is loaded into currently running processes on the target machine.

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TechSpot

APRIL 13, 2022

When it isn't busy making sleek laptops for gamers, Razer can come up with a laptop fine-tuned for enterprises that develop deep-learning applications for various fields such as medical research, manufacturing, and natural language processing. To that end, it has partnered with Lambda, a company with experience in deep learning.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The programming language, created by Graydon Hoare, an employee of Mozilla Research, has found its way into the Linux kernel, the Chromium Project, and Windows. Rust is already being adopted in some of the most high-profile software projects that dominate the modern technology landscape. This adoption brings a more secure.

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Tech Republic Data Center

JULY 20, 2021

Red Hat has opened a new subscription model for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and other products) to academic institutions for reduced-cost licensing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

At Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver today, the company announced plans to extend its Red Hat Lightspeed generative AI capabilities across all its platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Data Center Automation, Generative AI, IT Skills, Linux, Red Hat

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process. Think Linux doesn’t have malware? TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.)

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2021

The security researcher who discovered the Krack Wi-Fi vulnerability has discovered a slew of other flaws with the wireless protocol most of us use to power our online lives ( via Gizmodo ). The researcher, Mathy Vanhoef, calls the collection of vulnerabilities “FragAttacks,” with the name being a mashup of “fragmentation” and “aggregation.”

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Network World

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Linux system administrators should be on the watch for kernel updates because they fix a local privilege escalation flaw that could lead to a full system compromise. Andrey Konovalov, the Google researcher who found the vulnerability , plans to publish an exploit for it a few days.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 7, 2020

Microsoft is offering researchers $100,000 if they can crack the company's custom-built Linux OS for Internet of Things devices.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Shortly after I announced my intention to migrate to Linux as my primary desktop OS , a number of other folks contacted me and said they had made the same choice or they had been encouraged by my decision to also try it themselves. Q: Why did you switch to Linux? Q: Which distribution of Linux did you choose?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

This post is part of a series of posts sharing other users’ stories about their migration to Linux as their primary desktop OS. As I mentioned in part 1 of the series , there seemed to be quite a bit of pent-up interest in using Linux as your primary desktop OS. Q: Why did you switch to Linux? is awesome).

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Network World

AUGUST 10, 2016

A flaw in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) used by Linux since late 2012 poses a serious threat to internet users, whether or not they use Linux directly. That's the key finding of a research study that's scheduled to be presented Wednesday at the USENIX Security Symposium in Austin, Texas.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

According to numbers from market research firm IDC, Chrome OS overtook macOS for the first time in 2020 in user install base. The contest has historically been between macOS, Linux, and, more recently, Chrome OS. For decades, Windows has had a stranglehold on the PC market, and that has not changed.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 1, 2020

I recently wrapped up an instance where I needed to use the Unison file synchronization application across Linux, macOS, and Windows. Some continued research led me to find Windows and macOS builds of a newer version of Unison, version 2.51. Here’s some information on these interoperability issues, and how I worked around them.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Security researchers have identified a new family of Linux rootkits that, despite running from user mode, can be hard to detect and remove. It targets Linux-based systems on the x86, x86-64 and ARM architectures, including many embedded devices such as routers.

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Network World

AUGUST 30, 2016

Dubbed FairWare, the malicious program is not the first ransomware threat to target Linux-based web servers but is the first to delete files. Another program called Linux.Encoder first appeared in November and encrypted files, but did so poorly, allowing researchers to create recovery tools.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Researchers with Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Project Zero discovered a zero-day exploit (CVE-2020-16009) last week. On Monday, Google released Chrome patch 86.0.4240.183 for Windows, macOS, and Linux that addresses the issue.

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