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North Korean APT Uses Fake Job Offers as Linux Malware Lure

SecureWorld News

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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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel

The Verge

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. But among the other major characters — the Linux developers — there was no such hesitancy.

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ProBeat: Net Applications will no longer track the browser wars

Venture Beast

After 14 years, Net Applications is killing off its NetMarketShare reports that track browser and operating system market share. Read More.

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TechNet Augusta 2016: Defensive Cyber

CTOvision

Defensive cyber includes passive and active cyberspace operations intended to preserve the ability to utilize friendly cyberspace capabilities and protect data, networks, net-centric capabilities, and other designated systems. Linux: RHEL 7 Family. This includes actively hunting for threats as well as internal responses to threats.

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Weekly Update 5-13-2019

Linux Academy

Don’t miss out on not only showing Linux Academy and your fellow students what you can do but also get rewarded for producing something amazing. Plus Alpine Linux Docker images shipped for 3 years with root accounts unlocked, and Google’s new attempt to send updates directly to your phone.

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Using KVM with Libvirt and macvtap Interfaces

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’m going to show you how to use KVM with Libvirt and macvtap interfaces for networking (as opposed to a Linux bridge or Open vSwitch ). Macvtap interfaces are related to macvlan interfaces (they share the same kernel driver), so you’ll want to first be sure your Linux kernel supports the macvlan driver.

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The Browser as an application platform : spf13.com

SPF13

t the operating system, nor is it adobe air,net or java, itâ??s Wanna write a application that works on everything from Mac, windows, Linux, beos, iOS, android, webos, etc; write it for the browser. With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in the world of computing. s the browser.