Tag: security
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Ebury Malware Still Out There
Ebury is alive but unseen: 400k Linux servers are compromised for cryptocurrency theft and financial gain. One of the most advanced server-side malware campaigns is still growing, with hundreds of thousands of compromised servers, and it has diversified to include credit card and cryptocurrency theft. Ten years ago we raised awareness of Ebury by publishing…
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How to Use ‘Tails’: Max Privacy, Anon
This Linux Distro Is Focused on Maximum Privacy and Anonymity, Here’s How to Use It. (by Dave McKay, from How-to-Geek.) Is online privacy a lost cause? Tails Linux lets you be private online, just as long as you understand its limitations, use it within those limits, and don’t inadvertently blow your cover. The phrase “If…
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Open Container Initiative for FreeBSD
Youtube Video (15mins)Lightning Talk: OCI (Open Container Initiative of Linux Foundation) Containers for FreeBSD – Doug Rabson, FreeBSD Project This would be a lightning talk about Doug’s work over the last 1-2 years porting ‘Podman‘, ‘Buildah‘ and related systems to FreeBSD incuding some of the challenges along the way and future plans. Doug, a long-time…
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Linux on Car Safety & Driver Assistance
Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features.Increasingly, our cars will be controlled by a small number of powerful computers. There’s a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it’s a bit specialized. Its development was led by the automotive electronics supplier Elektrobit, and it’s the first open source OS that…
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How The Media Treats Linux in 2024
The “Reluctant Anarchist” creates insightful videos about Linux and his experiences with our beloved Operating System. This week’s video explores the often contentious relationship between mainstream media coverage and Linux, particularly focusing on how some writers approach reviewing products like the Steam Deck. It highlights a trend of negative language and bias, with some reviewers…
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Why Microsoft is a U.S. ‘National Security Threat’
This week the Register spoke to former senior White House cyber policy director A.J. Grotto — who complained it was hard to get even slight concessions from Microsoft: “If you go back to the SolarWinds episode from a few years ago … [Microsoft] was essentially up-selling logging capability to federal agencies” instead of making it…
