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9 Must-Do Tips to Secure Ubuntu Server

Tech Republic

And if you happen to be a Linux systems administrator, you might think it doesn’t apply to you. Even though the Linux open source platform is considerably more secure than many. In today’s world, if you’re not constantly working to secure your servers, you’re already 10 steps behind every hacker on the planet.

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Security researcher finds a way to run code on Apple, PayPal, and Microsoft’s systems

The Verge

The exploit is also deviously simple, and it’s something that many large software developers will have to figure out how to protect themselves from. When companies are building programs, they often use open-source code written by other people, so they’re not spending time and resources solving a problem that’s already solved.

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4 Common Causes of False Positives in Software Security Testing

ForAllSecure

In a perfect world, your software testing strategy would surface all of the security risks that exist inside your environment, and nothing more. Sometimes, the security issues that software testing tools flag turn out to be false positives. Why do false positives occur in software testing, and what can teams do about them?

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. Each houses an IBM z15 system. According to IDC, IBM sold more than 4,300 IBM Z systems in 2020, for approximately $3.5 IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000.

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Lazarus APT Targeting Cryptocurrency, CISA Warns

SecureWorld News

The threat actors use social engineering to encourage individuals to download trojanized cryptocurrency applications on Windows or macOS operating systems. The malicious applications are derived from a variety of open-source projects and purport to be cryptocurrency trading or price prediction tools.

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What is data science? Transforming data into value

CIO Business Intelligence

They also need big data architects to translate requirements into systems, data engineers to build and maintain data pipelines, developers who know their way around Hadoop clusters and other technologies, and system administrators and managers to tie everything together. Data science tools.

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Should Data Centers Think?

Cloud Musings

Concepts like software define infrastructure, data center analytics and Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fabrics are changing the very nature of data center management. TAP makes these resources accessible in one place for data scientists, application developers and system operators.