September 04, 2018

Credit card gobbling malware found piggybacking on ecommerce sites

Be careful! If crooks can upload malicious JavaScript to your ecommerce server, then you're helping the them rip off your own customers.

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July 13, 2018

Linux, malware and data breaches – what can we learn? [VIDEO]

We think Gentoo Linux did a good job in a bad situation following its recent malware invasion, and we can all learn something from that.

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July 11, 2018

Another Linux community with malware woes

Arch Linux user repository altered to host malware, Arch maintainers say they're "surprised it doesn't happen more often".

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June 29, 2018

Linux distro hacked on GitHub, “all code considered compromised”

Gentoo Linux has been hacked, with "all code considered compromised" on GitHub - fortunately, the master repository is safe.

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June 06, 2018

Microsoft faces wrath of developers after GitHub acquisition

Microsoft's come a long way in the past 10 years, since former chief Steve Ballmer called open-source a malignant cancer.

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May 16, 2018

Red Hat admins, patch now – don’t let your servers get pwned!

A command injection bug in Red Hat's DHCP client could allow an attacker to run any command on your computer. As root.

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March 07, 2018

Patch now! Half a million Exim mail servers need an urgent update

Exim is the world's most popular mail server and it has a bug that can be triggered remotely

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February 23, 2018

NPM update changes critical Linux filesystem permissions, breaks everything

A recent update to the Node Package Manager introduced a bug that caused it to interfere with the operating system, by locking the system itself out of numerous mission-critical files

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December 27, 2017

Holiday Fun #1: Try an unusual operating system…

We look at three alternative operating systems. Because it's Christmas, and because we can. You can too.

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