Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

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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Aqua Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This blog was co-authored by Itamar Maouda Two years ago, the NSA (the United States' National Security Agency) revealed that Drovorub, an advanced Russian malware created by the GRU 85th GTsSS team, had been discovered targeting Linux systems. It has an advanced kernel rootkit that hooks several kernel functions.

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Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 7, 2021

The Unit 42 cybersecurity consulting group published research on the first known malware targeting Windows containers, which was discovered by Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant and named Siloscape. Diagram of Windows container (source: Microsoft). A cluster is the basic architecture of Kubernetes (an open-source container platform).

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 15, 2024

In a thought-provoking interview on the Threat Vector podcast , Palo Alto Networks researchers Bar Matalon and Rem Dudas shed light on their groundbreaking research into AI-generated malware and shared their predictions for the future of AI in cybersecurity. We did that for different operating systems – for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Skys performance is similar to OpenAI o1-preview, and its fully open: Training data, weights, code, and infrastructure are all open source. 4M is an open source framework for training multimodal AI models. Fast-LLM is an open source library for training large language models. 32B-Instruct.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 16, 2024

A couple of weeks ago, a supply-chain attack against the Linux xz Utils package, which includes the liblzma compression library, was discovered just weeks before the compromised version of the library would have been incorporated into the most widely used Linux distributions. We’ve been very lucky. If you see something, say something.”

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Perficient

JANUARY 31, 2023

A common operating system (OS) on personal computers, servers, and other gadgets is Linux. The fact that Linux is very customizable is one of its key advantages. The source code can be simply changed by users to suit their unique requirements or tastes. Linux is also renowned for its security and dependability.

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CIO

AUGUST 25, 2022

After all, you wouldn’t want your haptic glove to misbehave in the metaverse or your autonomous vehicle sensors to be hijacked by malware. Separating system and application spaces is already gaining followers for immutable Linux operating systems – even in consumer devices. Operating Systems for the edge. Learn more about SUSE here.

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Aqua Security

APRIL 22, 2020

This is being exploited by malicious actors to embed sophisticated malware in innocent-looking images. Application dependencies within container images are often based on open source packages that can be exploited by a dishonest contributor, who’s gained a sufficient level of trust and was able to into an open-source project.

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Lacework

MARCH 29, 2022

They never miss an opportunity to cash in, whether they take advantage of common cloud configuration mistakes, target software supply chains, or adapt malware to evade detection. This malicious update opened up Linux systems to receive and run the open-source cryptocurrency miner, XMRig. View Infographic.

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Tenable

AUGUST 25, 2023

Oh, and the White House wants your input on open source security. The vast majority of enterprises polled – 95% – experienced multiple cyberattacks in the past 12 months, with phishing (74%), malware (60%) and software vulnerability exploits (50%) being the most common. CISA thinks so. And much more!

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

There’s also an open source OpenDevin project on GitHub. A supply chain attack added a back door to Linux systems through the widely used xz package. Fortunately, this attack was discovered before the package was incorporated into the leading Linux distributions. Artificial Intelligence What does open source mean for AI?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

Mosaic has released MPT-7B, an open-source family of large language models that allows commercial use. OpenLLaMA is completely open source; it was trained on the open source RedPajama dataset, allowing it to avoid the licensing restrictions attached to LLaMA and its descendants. It’s not just Linux.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 1, 2024

And attackers are targeting participants in GitHub projects, telling them that their project has vulnerabilities and sending them to a malware site to learn more. Programming With the addition of preemptive multitasking to the kernel, Linux can now be a true real-time operating system. lwIP is a small, lightweight open source IP stack.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Kerla is a Linux-like operating system kernel written in Rust that can run most Linux executables. I doubt this will ever be integrated into Linux, but it’s yet another sign that Rust has joined the big time. OSS Port is an open source tool that aims to help developers understand large codebases. Programming.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

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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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 6, 2024

We’re also seeing a surge in malware traffic, along with bogus vulnerability reports in CVE. It is semi-open: Source code and weights are available, but not training data, and there are restrictions on its use. Mistral’s NeMo is a small open source multilingual language model. Large 2 is available on Hugging Face.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 1, 2022

And Allen AI’s Macaw (surely an allusion to Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru’s Stochastic Parrots paper) is open source, one tenth the size of GPT-3, and claims to be more accurate. It is freely available and open-source. NVIDIA has open-sourced its Linux device drivers. Artificial Intelligence.

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You’ll also be introduced to nine open-source tools you can use to automate and streamline your incident response processes. The following are popular, free, open-source tools you can use to automate or streamline your incident response process. You can use GRR in a Docker container or on standard Linux systems.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 2, 2024

The Podman AI Lab is a good way for Linux users to experiment with running AI locally. OpenTofu, the open source fork of Terraform, now has State Encryption , a highly requested feature that has been on Terraform’s queue for nearly a decade. Linux malware controlled by emojis sent from Discord ? That’s creative.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2022

23, a new variant of wiper malware, named HermeticWiper, was discovered in Ukraine. In January 2022, Unit 42 researchers were able to map out three large clusters of Gamaredon’s infrastructure used to support different phishing and malware purposes. New Linux Vulnerability CVE-2022-0492 Affecting Cgroups: Can Containers Escape?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Also on the legal front: Hashicorp’s switch to a non-open source license has led the OpenTF foundation to build OpenTofu, a fork of Hashicorp’s Terraform product. Meta has released an open source dataset named FACET for testing AI models. Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DECEMBER 3, 2024

OpenScholar is an open source language model designed to support scientific research. It uses RAG to access a large database of open-access scientific papers, which ensures that citations are accurate. The project is open source. Magentic-One is open source for researchers and developers.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

And we have a rare legal section with items on AI regulation, Telegram, and open source licenses. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released version 0.0.9 of their definition of Open Source AI. Their definition requires that training data be recognized as part of an open source system.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

An independent open source implementation is already on GitHub. Microsoft’s Phi-2 model is now open source; it has been relicensed with the MIT license. Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source and available on GitHub. A variant of the Mirai malware is attacking Linux systems.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MAY 3, 2022

IBM has open sourced the Generative Toolkit for Scientific Discovery (GT4SD) , which is a generative model designed to produce new ideas for scientific research, both in machine learning and in areas like biology and materials science. The malware targets WatchGuard firewalls and Asus routers.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 5, 2022

Polycoder is an open source code generator (like Copilot) that uses GPT-2, which is also open sourced. Because it is open-source, it enables researchers to investigate how these tools work, including testing for security vulnerabilities. It is not open source. Quantum Computing.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 2, 2021

There’s a new technique for protecting natural language systems from attack by misinformation and malware bots: using honeypots to capture attackers’ key phrases proactively, and incorporate defenses into the training process. But Google Glass showed the way, and that path is being followed by Apple and Facebook in their product development.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Its accuracy is impressive and, unlike other OpenAI products, it is open source. Stephen O’Grady’s article on bait-and-switch open source licenses is a must-read. Chaos is new malware that can infect both Windows and Linux devices, including routers, firewalls, and other networking hardware. Programming.

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CIO

MAY 17, 2024

Un modelo entrenado, por ejemplo, en un archivo de teorías conspirativas sobre la Tierra plana será malo para responder a preguntas científicas, o un modelo ajustado por hackers norcoreanos podría ser malo para identificar correctamente el malware. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Data Management, Open Source

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Palo Alto Networks

JULY 13, 2020

Prisma Cloud now leverages the power of AutoFocus to: Detect: Automatically detect and alert across over 15 categories of common public cloud threats including cryptomining, ransomware, Linux malware, backdoor malware, hacking tools and more.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

Our own theory is that it’s a reaction to GPT models leaking proprietary code and abusing open source licenses; that could cause programmers to be wary of public code repositories. It’s now used in operating systems (Linux kernel components), tool development, and even enterprise software. But those are only guesses.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We conclude with a demo of an open source DAST tool called OWASP ZAP by using it against our own vulnerable web application. We will be using OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), an open source tool that can also be used for penetration testing. This time we will focus on Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST).

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Top network device CVEs exploited by PRC state-sponsored cyber actors (Source: “ People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Exploit Network Providers and Devices ” advisory from the U.S. This model then details high-level threats against each component.

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Tenable

MARCH 29, 2022

CRI-O is an open source container runtime engine that is used to share kernel resources among applications running on a container node. This could further allow the attacker to spread malware or exfiltrate sensitive data, making it a useful flaw for ransomware groups in particular. Proof of concept. On March 15, version 1.22.3

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Lacework

OCTOBER 6, 2022

There are several ways to detect threats using system call (syscall) and kernel tracing in Linux. Advanced Threat Detection on Linux. Many cloud workloads run on Amazon EC2 and Kubernetes while most run on Linux. In modern Linux kernels, there are three main ways to monitor syscalls: Tracepoint .

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Lacework

JULY 21, 2022

Lacework Labs often sees remote access methods co-deployed with cryptomining malware (IRC bots, dropped ssh keys, etc.). Before deploying cryptomining malware and associated payloads, an attacker needs to deploy their malware on a target host. This often results in the first payload (e.g.,

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