Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Linux.
A security researcher demonstrated how he can take control of a system with a normal-looking USB cable without the antivirus software noticing anything. It's no longer a secret that it's a bad idea to just insert an unknown USB stick into your PC. Security researcher Mike Grover now shows in a conv... Read more
5 years ago
Hackers have developed a new backdoor trojan that can run on Linux systems. The malware is called SpeakUp and currently focuses mainly on Linux servers located in China. The hackers behind this series of attacks use the ThinkPHP framework to infect servers. Once the trojan gets a foothold in one of ... Read more
5 years ago
Security researchers found vulnerabilities in processors in early 2018, which were given the name Spectre. Various solutions have now been rolled out for this, but they also appear to result in significantly lower performance in Linux systems. Now an option to disable the solutions has been added, r... Read more
5 years ago
Systemd doesn't make any friends. The widely used but little-loved system and service manager in most Linux distributions appears to contain three vulnerabilities. This allows a local user to gain root access. Systemd, developed under the Red Hat umbrella, is the standard system and service manager ... Read more
5 years ago
Linux 5.0 is on its way, says maker Linus Torvalds. But according to him, there's not much to be excited about. "The change in the number does not indicate anything special", he wrote in his Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), reports ZDNet. "If you want to have an official reason, it's because I didn... Read more
5 years ago
Security company ESET has announced that it has discovered 21 new Linux-based malware families. All families work in the same way: as a trojan version of the OpenSSH client. That's what ZDNet reports. The families managed to stay under the radar for four years. The reason for this is that Linux is s... Read more
5 years ago
Researchers from the Russian antivirus manufacturer Dr. Web have found a new form of malware that steals passwords and turns off antivirus software. This is an unnamed trojan, which focuses on Linux. That's what ZDNet reports. The trojan itself is a gigantic shell script with over 1,000 lines of co... Read more
5 years ago
2018 is the year in which Intel regularly made negative news. Spectre and Meltdown are still critical leaks that are difficult to plug. Linux 4.20 partially tackles the problem, but some benchmarks note a delay of up to 50 percent in performance. Phoronix' test results leave little to the imaginatio... Read more
5 years ago
Red Hat has released the official beta version of its business Linux platform Enterprise Linux 8 Beta. With this, the open source specialist wants to lay the foundation for a switch to hybrid cloud environments and the use of applications such as Linux containers, Kubernetes or blockchain for new an... Read more
5 years ago
Trend Micro security researchers have discovered a new variant of malware that minets cryptographic currency on Linux computers. The malware distinguishes itself from others because it downloads a rootkit to change the behavior of the operating system and hides the unwanted high CPU consumption that... Read more
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