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In the world of cloud-native computing, security is paramount. The recent announcement by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) about the graduation of Falco , a cloud-native security tool, brings it to the forefront. Falco, described as the de facto Kubernetes threat detection engine, has gained significant traction among notable organizations like Booz Allen Hamilton, GitLab, Shopify, and many more.

The open-source, cross-platform, and free video editor Shotcut has been updated to version 24.02, a release that introduces Ambisonic spatial (spherical) audio support, as well as some improvements and bug fixes.

A Lucifer DDoS botnet malware variant has been identified, specifically targeting Apache Hadoop and Apache Druid servers. This sophisticated malware campaign exploits existing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations within these systems to carry out malicious activities, including cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks .

The i18n team is testing changes for Fedora Linux 40 (ibus-anthy 1.5.16, IBus 1.5.30 and many more). As a result, the i18n and QA teams organized a test week from Friday, March 05, 2024, to Friday, March 11, 2024. The wiki page in this article contains links to the test images you’ll need to participate. […]

A new variant of Bifrost, a remote access Trojan (RAT), has been observed attacking Linux servers. The new variant, dubbed Bifrose, employs a deceptive domain name to evade detection.

A showstopping issue has come to light that has now led to this feature being diverted to Fedora 41 instead. The matter was raised over an important difference in behavior during the storage/disk setup between the existing installer and the new web UI solution.

The long-awaited support for variable refresh rate (VRR) in GNOME is finally coming with the next major version of the popular desktop environment, GNOME 46, due out later this month.

A ransomware variant dubbed "Abyss Locker" has been observed targeting Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms. The Abyss Locker ransomware is believed to be based on the HelloKitty ransomware source code. It steals and encrypts victims' files, demanding ransom for decryption and preventing the release of stolen data. The ransomware's severity level is classified as high, showcasing the urgency of addressing this issue.

Nagios is an open-source monitoring system for servers, networks, and applications. It also provides proactive problem resolution with a real-time tracking IT infrastructure. In this guide, we will show you how to install the Nagios Monitoring Tool on the Almalinux 9 server.

Actually, what happens right now during deploying KVM Guest via Fedora-Workstation-Live-osb-40-20240301.n.0.x86_64.iso . At the time of writing I clearly saw Anconda Web UI behavior during installation via ISO image pointed above. Awareness of article https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Web-Installer-F41-Delay explains the reason why Anaconda Web UI was postponed until Fedora 41 and provide some light on why OSB image behaves the way described here in details .

The KDE Project released today Plasma Mobile 6 as the latest version of their Plasma desktop environment for mobile devices based on the recently released KDE Plasma 6 desktop series and postmarketOS.

With Mobile World Congress (MWC) in full swing, there has been no shortage of news about open radio access networks (open RANs) and the multitude of vendors racing to provide services to support that technology.

Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system (OS), is now entering the market with a new offering available on the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (EKS Anywhere) that is designed specifically for open RAN deployments.

Librum is a free and open-source cross-platform e-book reading application with a modern UI, support for cloud sync, and cross-platform compatibility.

Zulip is an open-source chat server, similar to Microsoft Teams, Rocket Chat, or Slack. It is written in Python and uses Django, PostgreSQL, and JavaScript. This tutorial teaches you how to install and configure Zulip Chat on a Rocky Linux 9 server.

Richard Hughes released today fwupd 1.9.14 as the latest version of this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux-based operating systems adding support for new hardware and various improvements.

A new release of Sway 1.9 is now available.

GParted 1.6 open-source partition editor software has been released today as a maintenance update that addresses several bugs to improve support for various filesystems.

Openwall has released Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) 0.9.8 with significant updates and improvements. For those unfamiliar with Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG), it is a kernel module that performs runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel and detects security vulnerability exploits against the kernel.

Kali Linux 2024.1 launches with a fresh theme, expanded mirrors, and upgraded cybersecurity tools. Here's more on that!

Offensive Security announced today the release and general availability of Kali Linux 2024.1 as the first update in 2024 for this Debian-based, rolling-release distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing.