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There are at least 35,000 publicly accessible and insecure MongoDB databases on the Internet, and their number appears to be growing. Combined they expose 684.8 terabytes of data to potential theft.

Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader's password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system.

The open-source project behind the widely used Joomla content management system has issued a patch for a vulnerability that is now being widely used by hackers.

The open source MongoDB NoSQL database is powering an increasing number of websites and services. Here are nine examples of organizations transforming their business with MongoDB.

Why worry about the desktop when you've conquered everything else?

In the era of mobile and cloud, we are becoming consumers of our own data and the companies whose services we use are becoming the owners. These five technologies or projects are game changers because they ensure that we remain in charge of our digital lives.

Both Red Hat and Canonical have free enterprise distributions: CentOS and Ubuntu respectively. Until last week, SUSE didn't have any such offering -- at least not officially. Everything changed with the arrival of Leap.

Administrators of Web servers that were infected with a recently released ransomware program for Linux are in luck: There's now a free tool that can decrypt their files. The tool was created by malware researchers from antivirus firm Bitdefender, who found a major flaw in how the Linux.Encoder.1 ransomware uses encryption.

Malware researchers from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web have recently discovered a new malware program for Linux-based systems that they've dubbed Linux.Encoder.1.

The openSUSE community is taking a big leap, dropping the old regular release cycles of openSUSE and moving to openSUSE Leap.

SUSECon 2015 kicked off today in Amsterdam. One of the biggest highlights of the keynote was SUSE's entry into the platform as a service (PaaS) landscape: the company is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

Different ‘Ubuntus’ come with different desktop environments that have different sets of applications pre-packaged. But there are certain things that all Ubuntu users should do to get most out of the distro.

There's more to Ubuntu than, well, Ubuntu. Here are the 9 official flavors that make up the Ubuntu family.

It's been just over a year since Oracle first released an OpenStack version tailored for its namesake Linux distribution, and on Tuesday it followed up with a key update reworked specifically for today's containerized world.

By offering big data services in its Azure cloud on Linux, Microsoft is sending several important messages to customers.

In this second video in the foundation's 'World Without Linux' series we see just how hard it can be to get from point A to point B.

The curl command is a versatile tool for working with web sites and web applications.

When Benjamin Kerensa, a software developer and newly diagnosed diabetes sufferer, didn’t find any open source glucose monitoring apps he set out to write his own. The fruit of his labor is called Glucosio.

IBM is gunning for a slice of Intel's x86 server chip business with a new family of Power systems that run Linux and will be sold directly to customers over the Web.

Now 10 years old, the Open Invention Network protects more than 2,000 software packages