New Pumabot Botnet Brute-Forces SSH Credentials to Hijack IoT Devices

In today’s connected world, IoT devices are becoming increasingly common, powering everything from home automation to industrial systems. However, this rapid growth has also expanded the attack surface for cybercriminals. A recent discovery of the Pumabot botnet demonstrates how attackers are exploiting weak security, particularly poor SSH credential management, to breach and control vulnerable devices. […]

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Vet: Open-source software supply chain security tool

Vet is an open source tool designed to help developers and security engineers spot risks in their software supply chains. It goes beyond traditional software composition analysis by detecting known vulnerabilities and flagging malicious packages.
The p…

Kapitano is a New GTK ClamAV Frontend for Linux

Kapitano is a ClamAV frontend for Linux that scans files for malware, ideal if you want to check Windows files safely on the Ubuntu desktop.
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NordVPN Updates Linux App with GUI

NordVPN today announced a major update to its Linux app, adding a much-requested GUI front-end that makes it easier to control, configure and monitor connections. Linux users have been able to use an official, comprehensive command-line interface for N…

CVE Foundation Emerges From Stealth to Rescue CVE Program

The rapid defunding and refunding of the CVE Project is just another sign of the destabilization our government is currently experiencing.

Vivaldi Adds Built-In Proton VPN to Its Browser

Vivaldi, the proprietary Norwegian browser that’s largely built on open-source code, further distinguishes itself from other Chrome-based browsers by adding a baked-in on-demand Proton VPN implementation.
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TuxCares New Partnership With Trend Microsystems Brings New Options for AlmaLinux Users

There’s a lot of “one hand washing the other” in this collaboration: TuxCare gains cred by contributing to Trend’s proprietary platform, AlmaLinux gains another reason for potential users to choose it over the competition, and Trend now has something t…

TuxCares New Partnership With Trend Microsystems Brings New Options for AlmaLinux Users

There’s a lot of “one hand washing the other” in this collaboration: TuxCare gains cred by contributing to Trend’s proprietary platform, AlmaLinux gains another reason for potential users to choose it over the competition, and Trend now has something t…

Block Ads & Trackers System-wide in Ubuntu Linux using hBlock

This tutorial shows how to block ads, trackers, and malware domains system-wide in Ubuntu and other Linux desktop using hBlock. hBlock is a free open-source script that collects a large list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources. It blocks them by mapping all those domain names to 0.0.0.0 using […]

AlmaLinux Now Has a DOD Guide for Security Hardening the Distro as Much as You Want

Users who take advantage of the new DISA STIG can make their AlmaLinux servers about as secure as is possible. There’s another feather in the…
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Ubuntu Patches Major Security Vulnerabilities in Rsync

Doing anything right now? Oh, you’re reading this – appreciated – but once you’re done go and install the pending update to Rsync, pushed out to all supported versions of Ubuntu desktop and server this week. Rsync is a command-line tool pre…

Critical Rsync Vulnerability Requires Immediate Patching on Linux and Unix systems

Rsync is a opensource command-line tool in Linux, macOS, *BSD and Unix-like systems that synchronizes files and directories. It is a popular tool for sending or receiving files, making backups, or setting up mirrors. It minimizes data copied by transfe…

TuxCare Stops Microsoft From Killing .NET 6.0

For the first time, TuxCare is offering support for Microsoft software that’s no longer supported. .NET 6.0 reached end of life last November.
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TuxCare and Cloudimg Partner to Bring Support to Dead Linux Cloud Images

TuxCare has partnered with UK-based Cloudimg, to bring its customers TuxCare Endless Lifecycle Support for keeping end-of-life Linux distributions supported.
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Supply Chain Focused Startup, Stacklok, Donates Minder Platform to OpenSSF

StackloK’s founders say that security software designed to help with open source issues should also be open source. Stacklok, the security startup focused on securing…
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There Is Just One Way To Do Open Source Security: Together

HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos highlights how open source can address security issues.
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There Is Just One Way To Do Open Source Security: Together

HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos highlights how open source can address security issues.
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There Is Just One Way To Do Open Source Security: Together

HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos highlights how open source can address security issues.
The post There Is Just One Way To Do Open Source Security: Together appeared first on Linux Today.

There Is Just One Way To Do Open Source Security: Together

HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos highlights how open source can address security issues.
The post There Is Just One Way To Do Open Source Security: Together appeared first on Linux Today.

There Is Just One Way To Do Open Source Security: Together

HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos highlights how open source can address security issues.
The post There Is Just One Way To Do Open Source Security: Together appeared first on Linux Today.