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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

Photo: Linux Mint. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Teams now runs on Linux. Which Linux?

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What’s Free At Linux Academy June 2019

Linux Academy

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Why Do Spammers Love The Internet Of Things?

CTOvision

The Internet of Things is the marketing term for those devices. Most aren’t the laptops, tablets, and phones we think of as using the internet: they’re appliances like routers, fridges, cameras, and a million others, each of which is equipped with storage space, an operating system, and a connection to the internet.

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Use the internet? This Linux flaw could open you up to attack

Network World

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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Linux Academy Weekly Update 3-11-2019

Linux Academy

Right now, Linux Academy is working hard to create two new sandboxes for you to play in. Kali Linux and Windows Server ! That’s right, here in the next month you will be able to create, build, test, and break your own Kali Linux and Windows servers in the Linux Academy Playground. What are they?

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AVrecon botnet operated unnoticed for two years, infecting 70,000 Linux-based routers

TechSpot

Malicious firmware releases designed to compromise internet routers are nothing new at this point, and things are only getting worse. 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. Read Entire Article

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Consortium Previews Open Standard for Internet of Things

Data Center Knowledge

Open source project to develop IoTivity, a standard for machine-to-machine communications, hosted by Linux Foundation Read More. Internet of Things Networking'

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