Lacework

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Jared Stroud, Tom Hegel Cloud Security Researchers – Lacework Labs Key Points Lacework Labs identified new samples and infrastructure associated with HCRootkit / Sutersu Linux rootkit activity, building-off its recent initial identification from our colleagues at Avast. These files compromise a host [.].

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The Parallax

JANUARY 24, 2019

The Cyber Independent Testing Lab , a nonprofit organization that focuses on consumer cybersecurity, published research in December demonstrating how 28 home wireless routers fail to use even basic security techniques. The organization’s acting director, Tim Carstens, says the research will be published soon on the CITL site.

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Toptal

JUNE 11, 2021

Researchers snuck vulnerabilities past the peer-review process and into the open-source Linux kernel codebase. What does this mean for the ubiquitous Linux kernel, and open source in general?

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Aqua Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In the past couple of days there has been many troubling publications and discussions about a mysterious critical Linux vulnerability allowing remote code execution. While this headline is very alarming, after diving into details there are many preconditions that cool down the level of alertness.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Agents installed by default on Azure Linux virtual machines are vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw that can be exploited with a single request. The flaws, which are collectively referred to as “OMIGOD,” are found within OMI agents that are installed on Microsoft’s Azure Linux virtual machines (VMs) by default. Background.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

At Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver today, the company announced plans to extend its Red Hat Lightspeed generative AI capabilities across all its platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Data Center Automation, Generative AI, IT Skills, Linux, Red Hat

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

If the Perplexity answer app has become your default research tool - and why shouldn't it be!? here's how to include it on your Linux desktops.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Microsoft has begun a project that will make Linux’s eBPF available on Windows. In the Linux world, eBPF has proven invaluable for observability, security, and compliance tools. Windows eBPF will be bytecode compatible with Linux. Want to run Linux on an Intel 4004 , a CPU from 1971? Python 3.13 has been released.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

Since the 1990s, when open source platforms like Linux and the Apache Web Server first made their way into enterprise production environments, debate has raged about whether open source software is as secure as closed-source alternatives. Learn more about IDC’s research for technology leaders. Contact us today to learn more.

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Tenable

JUNE 16, 2020

Tenable Research discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server, a popular media streaming and sharing service, that could allow attackers to gain full system privileges and access to personal files. Tenable Research has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server, affecting versions prior to 1.18.2. Background.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 4, 2018

Two newly discovered critical security vulnerabilities are very likely affecting your laptop and phone, security researchers revealed on Wednesday. Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android are all affected by the bugs. . ”—Dan Kaminsky, security researcher. The good news is that patches are coming to protect your devices.

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TechBeacon

JUNE 24, 2021

Google is funding the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) to sponsor the Rust for Linux organization. Money will be funneled from la GOOG’s bottomless coffers to pay Miguel Ojeda as a full-time developer.

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CIO

AUGUST 22, 2024

Keep reading for a look at key findings from our research, along with tips on how CISOs can apply them to enhance the effectiveness of the security personnel they manage. Learn more about IDC’s research for technology leaders. He is also a longtime Linux geek, and he has held roles in Linux system administration.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 4, 2025

Weve also noted the return of Pebble, the first smart watch, and an AI-driven table lamp from Apple Research that looks like it came from Pixars logo. The hypotheses are based on the scientists goals, ideas, and past research. The companys looking for researchers to help with testing. Linux booting inside a PDF in Chrome.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

IT executives, hiring managers, recruiters, researchers, and workers themselves say there are certainly jobs — such as the one Williams signed on for in 2022 — where certifications are preferred because they indicate that the candidate has the specific skills required to do that job. Rather, the answer is: It depends.

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CTOvision

JULY 3, 2019

Over 30 VMware products are affected by SACK Panic and SACK Slowness, two recently disclosed Linux kernel vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely without authentication for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Research So my research took me to various tools, from Minikube , Kind to the recently released AKS Edge Essentials Preview from Microsoft TechCommunity. The setup was a bit involved and I had to research a fair bit on running kubectl commands to get my cluster up and individual Pods running.

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CIO

JUNE 27, 2024

The open source world has seen a share of troubles in the recent past,” said Andrew Cornwall, senior analyst at Forrester Research. Finally, we’ve seen a sole overworked maintainer give co-maintainer status to a party who injected malicious backdoor code into a hobby project that’s also part of the Linux kernel.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

“Together is spearheading AI’s ‘Linux moment’ by providing an open ecosystem across compute and best in class foundation models,” Lux Capital’s Brandon Reeves told TechCrunch via email. ” Together, launched in June 2022, is the brainchild of Vipul Ved Prakash, Ce Zhang, Chris Re and Percy Liang.

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CIO

JULY 10, 2024

Christopher Tozzi , an adjunct research advisor for IDC, is senior lecturer in IT and society at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to pivoting to his current focus on researching and writing about technology, Christopher worked full-time as a tenured history professor and as an analyst for a San Francisco Bay area technology startup.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Learn more about IDC’s research for technology leaders. Christopher Tozzi , an adjunct research advisor for IDC, is senior lecturer in IT and society at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is also a longtime Linux geek, and he has held roles in Linux system administration. Contact us today to learn more.

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Tenable

MARCH 14, 2025

Thats a question Tenable Research set out to answer via a detailed analysis of the popular open-source product, which is owned by a Chinese AI company also called DeepSeek. At its core, DeepSeek can create the basic structure for malware, Tenable Staff Research Engineer Nick Miles wrote this week in a blog post detailing the findings.

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Tenable

MARCH 29, 2024

Frequently asked questions about CVE-2024-3094, a supply-chain attack responsible for a backdoor in XZ Utils, a widely used library found in multiple Linux distributions. What Linux distributions are affected? build of XZ as a precaution Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) [link] No versions of RHEL are affected.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This years evaluation was more rigorous than ever, incorporating false positive testing, macOS support and expanded Linux scenarios. These results reaffirm our commitment to providing the most comprehensive defense for every major OS Windows, macOS and Linux.

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The Parallax

APRIL 2, 2019

Ilja van Sprundel, the director of penetration testing at security research company IOActive , says he’s detected a significant amount of rot in the foundation of a wide swath of commonly used software code. Researchers have known about this vulnerability for more than 30 years. Netflix and NASA use Nginx to run their websites.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 23, 2018

Your favorite Web browser is inching toward a more secure future, according to new research revealed at the cybersecurity conference ShmooCon here on Sunday. In a statement to The Parallax, Google said it “appreciates” the CITL research. WASHINGTON, D.C.—Your Yes, you have seat belts, but are they good seat belts?”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

“We’ve been working on trustworthy AI on the public interest research side for about five years, hoping other industry players with more AI expertise would step up to build more trustworthy tech,” Surman said. The creators of these models say that they’re taking steps to curb abuse. “They haven’t. ” Mozilla.ai

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That’s why SaaS giant Salesforce, in migrating its entire data center from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has turned to generative AI — not only to help with the migration but to drive the real-time automation of this new infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Zededa’s tech stack, for example, builds on the Linux Foundation’s EVE-OS, an open Linux-based operating system for distributed edge computing. ” Some research bears this out. Image Credits: Zededa. “As a result of this, edge computing projects are accelerating within organizations.”

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When Bash, a command interpreter used by Unix-based systems including Linux and macOS, processed this variable, it would execute the function, but also run the arbitrary commands appended after the function definition. Researchers found it trivial to identify the flaw and develop proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for it.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 1, 2025

Local Deep Research is a tool that looks up resources, similar to the deep research offerings from OpenAI and other AI vendors, but uses Ollama to run the model of your choice locally. The researchers have named this emergent misalignment. Its available from GitHub and other repositories. Its based on the OpenAPI standard.

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Tenable

JUNE 18, 2019

Researchers at Netflix have disclosed new remote denial of service and resource consumption vulnerabilities in most Linux and FreeBSD versions. The advisory highlights four separate vulnerabilities, each of which impacts either specific versions of the Linux and FreeBSD kernels or all Linux kernel versions. Background.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We found that in many organisations, the CISO (or equivalent role) thought that the Board was accountable, whilst the Board thought it was the CISO,” reads a blog about the research titled “ How to talk to board members about cyber. ” s cyber agency has found. As a result, the U.K.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

APRIL 21, 2025

I was totally against AI until I found two tools that make handling all the research I do every day much easier.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Researchers are building large natural language models, potentially the size of GPT-3, to decode the “speech” of whales. a threat to privacy, or a valuable academic research tool? Facebook AI Research has created a set of first-person (head-mounted camera) videos called Ego4D for training AI. through trial and error.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2023

IBM Watson integration to aid backend automation The integration of IBM’s Watson AI into SAP’s portfolio will not only help automate backend tasks but also aid in churning business insights, said Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst of AI platforms at Omdia Research. “I Like IBM, SAP certainly has invested heavily in its own AI research.

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Lacework

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Jared Stroud, Tom Hegel Cloud Security Researchers – Lacework Labs Key Points Lacework Labs identified new samples and infrastructure associated with HCRootkit / Sutersu Linux rootkit activity, building-off its recent initial identification from our colleagues at Avast. These files compromise a host [.].

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