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Recent enhancements have been made to GitHub Actions , a feature of GitHub that enables automation and CI/CD processes for developer teams. The updates focus on boosting security and power for GitHub-hosted runners, virtual machines that execute workflows.

Follows the vendor's decision to overhaul licensing of the popular cache database. Cloud giants AWS, Google, and Oracle have come out in support of a Linux Foundation open source fork of Redis, the popular in-memory database frequently used as a cache, following changes to its licensing.…

Ransomware targeting Linux systems is a growing threat, particularly in IoT ecosystems. Cybersecurity analysts are presenting live forensic techniques to detect ransomware infections on Linux machines. Let's examine Linux ransomware's unique challenges and its potential impact on the IoT industry.

The importance of prioritizing memory-safe programming languages has never been greater. Using memory-safe programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, Go, Rust, and Swift offers significant security advantages for admins and programmers, while avoiding the vulnerabilities associated with memory-unsafe languages like C++.

Is Developer Cloud enough to steal Nvidia's thunder? Interview Intel is attempting to woo developers to its cloud with early access to unreleased hardware and a born-again attitude to open source in a bid to differentiate itself from competitors.…

This guide delves deep into the world of Dockerizing applications on Linux, covering best practices, deployment strategies, and much more to empower developers and DevOps professionals alike.

This guide delves into the intricacies of Disk Partitioning and Logical Volume Management (LVM), equipping you with the knowledge to optimize your Linux system's storage.

Fedora 40 beta , the newest version of the Fedora operating system, is an efficient and lightning-fast release with various new and useful features. Compared to its previous releases, Fedora 40 is lightning-fast and offers maximum efficiency to users.

This article introduces projects available in Flathub with installation instructions. Flathub is the place to get and distribute apps for all of Linux. It is powered by Flatpak, allowing Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distribution. Please read “Getting started with Flatpak“. In order to enable flathub as your flatpak provider, use the instructions […]

In the world of open-source software , security vulnerabilities can have widespread consequences. The recent publication of a Linux privilege-escalation proof-of-concept exploit has sent shockwaves through the Linux community, demanding the immediate attention of Linux admins, infosec professionals, internet security enthusiasts, and sysadmins.

A Linux version of the multi-platform backdoor malware called DinodasRAT has been spotted in cyberattacks across several countries. The malware, also known as XDealer, is a C++-based threat that can harvest sensitive data from compromised systems.

A backdoor in the widely used xz compression utility has been discovered, posing a severe threat to Linux users. The issue is tracked as CVE-2024-3094 and has a maximum CVSS score of 10.

A critical vulnerability has been found in the wall command of the util-linux package that poses a severe security threat to Linux systems. This vulnerability, known as WallEscape and tracked as CVE-2024-28085 , has been present in every package version for the past 11 years.

Red Hat in all caps says STOP USAGE OF ANY FEDORA RAWHIDE INSTANCES. Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression library called xz may be present in Fedora Linux 40, 41, and in the Fedora Rawhide developer distribution.…

CVE-2024-1086 turns the page tables on system admins. A Linux privilege-escalation proof-of-concept exploit has been published that, according to the bug hunter who developed it, typically works effortlessly on kernel versions between at least 5.14 and 6.6.14. …

Andres Freund discovered that the upstream source tarballs for xz-utils, the XZ-format compression utilities, are compromised and inject malicious code, at build time, into the resulting liblzma5 library.

Summary: The latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access. Specifically, this code is present in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the libraries. Fedora Linux 40 users may have received version 5.6.0, depending on the timing of system updates. Fedora Rawhide users may have received version 5.6.0 or 5.6.1.

Monit is an open-source monitoring tool that can be used to monitor servers. This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the Monit monitoring tool on Ubuntu 22.04.

ElkArte is a free and open-source forum software written in PHP language. This tutorial will show you how to install ElkArte on Ubuntu 22.04 with Let's Encrypt SSL.

Munin is a free, open-source system and powerful network monitoring tool for Linux. This tutorial will show you how to install the Munin monitoring tool on Ubuntu 22.04.