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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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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

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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Computing at the edge of space: HPE and Microsoft conduct International Space Station experiments

GeekWire

” That makes the International Space Station an extreme case study for edge computing, the concept of bringing storage and processing closer to the source of data to improve speed and reduce the bandwidth needed for cloud computing. Spaceborne Computer-2 is expected to be used for research projects at the ISS for two to three years.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Thus, these services will begin to commoditize, and with the popularity of multicloud, core services such as storage and computing will be pretty much the same from cloud to cloud.” The gen AI gold rush — with little clarity on cost “It’s the year of AI,” declares Forrester Research.

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Technology Short Take 155

Scott Lowe

Researchers have uncovered a potential security flaw in Apple Silicon CPUs; more details in this 9to5Mac article. I’m not sure how I feel about security researchers calling this flaw “not that bad.” For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42.

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Technology Short Take #78

Scott Lowe

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take #60

Scott Lowe

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Networking.

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