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RedHat is acquiring container security company StackRox

TechCrunch

RedHat, which is perhaps best known for its enterprise Linux products has been making the shift to the cloud in recent years. StackRox was founded in 2014 and raised over $65 million, according to Crunchbase data. RedHat today announced that it’s acquiring container security startup StackRox.

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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE – 635,229 commits as of today. Linux also clearly exhibits more of a linear growth pattern. Again, code is available here. The monster repo of them all. Note that most of these repos took at most a few minutes to analyze, using my script. Half-life by repository.

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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

Tenable

CVE-2014-6271: GNU Bash Shellshock Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Shellshock Bash Bug Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Network Cybercriminals Critical 2014 Why it’s significant: An attacker could craft an environment variable that contained both a function definition and additional malicious code.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under an open source license back in 2014, though its initial development pre-dates that by several years. Today, Godot claims some 1,500 contributors, and is considered one of the world’s top open source projects by various metrics. ” Support and services.

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400,000 Linux Servers Hit by Ebury Botnet 

Ooda Loop

The Ebury Linux botnet, initially discovered in 2014 with 25,000 infected systems, has persisted and expanded over the past decade, reaching approximately 100,000 infected systems by the end of 2023, according to a report by ESET. Despite a takedown attempt and the sentencing of one of its operators, Maxim Senakh, […]

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MicroK8s: Up and Running in Azure

Linux Academy

By now you’ve heard the stories that Microsoft loves Linux and fully embraces the open-source world. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Among the relationships Microsoft has formed with Red Hat, Oracle, and SUSE since its mobile-first, cloud-first initiative in 2014 , one of its closest is Canonical. and many more.

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Radar Trends to Watch: February 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Stratoshark is a new tool for analyzing system calls on Linux. Heres one that runs on Linux and macOS. Since roughly 2014, PlugX has been used by the Chinese government to steal data from victims. Need to write applications for the Cray X-MP in your basement? Youll need a compiler.