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Linux cryptominer steals passwords and turns off antivirus software

Researchers from the Russian antivirus manufacturer Dr. Web have found a new form of malware that steals passw...

Eveline Meijer November 26, 2018

2018 is the year in which Intel regularly made negative news. Spectre and Meltdown are still critical leaks th...

Berry Zwets November 21, 2018

Red Hat has released the official beta version of its business Linux platform Enterprise Linux 8 Beta. With th...

Floris Hulshoff Pol November 16, 2018

Trend Micro security researchers have discovered a new variant of malware that minets cryptographic currency o...

Eveline Meijer November 12, 2018

Sophos researchers have discovered the new DDoS botnet Chalubo, which targets poorly secured SSH servers. This...

Eveline Meijer October 30, 2018

A new security error affects most Linux and BSD distros. The problem lies in the escalation of consents and sh...

Jim Pedd October 26, 2018

Linus Torvalds decided a few weeks ago to reconsider his role in the Linux community. Today, however, he appea...

Jim Pedd October 23, 2018

Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network (OIN). This is a consortium of patent sharing companies that can pr...

Jim Pedd October 11, 2018

The developers of Ubuntu and Debian receive a warning from Googles Project Zero. Project Zero researcher Jann ...

Jim Pedd October 3, 2018

Three years ago, Mark Russinovich, CTO of the Microsoft Azure Cloud, announced that one in four Azure instance...

Jim Pedd September 28, 2018