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Linux Lite users are among the first to try the recently released Linux 5.0 kernel on their computers powered by one of the supported Linux Lite releases.
Released last weekend, Linux kernel 5.0 is a major m […]

A new crypto-mining group is targeting Linux servers. According to ZDNet, the attackers, called Pacha Group, are believed to be from China and have been attacking Linux servers since this past fall, inserting […]

Linux kernel 5.0 is out. Linus writes, “We have more than a handful of real fixes in the last week, but not enough to make me go “Hmm, things are really unstable”. In fact, at least two thirds of the patches are […]

A proof-of-concept hack allows adversaries to tweak old exploits, have code jump containers and attack underlying infrastructure.

Researchers at CyberArk have created a proof-of-concept attack that […]

With no official Google Drive Linux client available, it’s left to third-party apps, devs services to fill the file-syncing void for FOSS fans.

And boy are there are a lot of options out there that do just […]

KDE announces it’s been selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code for the 14th year. See the KDE Community Wiki for ideas and instructions for students interested in working with KDE for GSoC 2019 […]

In my day job at LinuxGizmos, I’ve been neck deep recently in embedded Linux hardware news from the Embedded World show in Nuremberg. There are plenty of new SBCs and compute modules — many based on NXP’s newly […]

A new cryptovirus called “B0r0nt0K” has been putting Linux and possibly Windows Web servers at risk of encrypting all of the infected domain’s files.
The new ransomware threat and the ransom of 20 bitcoins (about […]

Thunderclap vulnerabilities allow the creation of highly dangerous malicious peripherals that can steal data from OS memory.

Windows, Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD systems are all impacted by a new vulnerability that […]

Cmd helps organizations monitor, authenticate, and block user activity that goes beyond expected system usage.
There’s a new Linux security tool you should be aware of — Cmd (pronounced “see em de […]

The Eclipse Foundation this morning announced that Eclipse IoT, “a leading collaboration of vendors working together to define an open, modular architecture to accelerate commercial IoT adoption”, has reached “3 […]

Vorta is a fairly new GUI for BorgBackup (or Borg for short), a command line backup tool with encryption, deduplication, compression and validation. Both Vorta and BorgBackup are free and open source software, […]

Purism announced PureBoot, a centralized, highly secure, and complete boot process for its Linux-powered computers and everyone else who wants to better secure their Linux PCs. 
Dubbed “the high security bo […]

NVIDIA released a security update for the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver software to patch eight security issues that could lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, denial of service, or information disclosure […]

Linux kernel 5.0-rc8 was released yesterday. Linus writes “This may be totally unnecessary, but we actually had more patches come in this last week than we had for rc7, which just didn’t make me feel the warm and […]

Linux has long been the basis of commercial networking devices, but now it’s a mainstay of enterprise infrastructure.
Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but […]

The subject of this week’s Linux Picks and Pans is a representative of a less well-known computing platform that coexists with Linux as an open source operating system. If you thought that the Linux kernel was […]

The problem is that some seem to put too much trust in the capabilities of Linux by default. As a result, they often don’t pay enough attention to the manual aspect of their security. Linux can help you a […]

Linux users will soon have a new way to access and sync OneDrive on Linux. 

Insync, makers of a popular third-party Google Drivesyncing client for Linux (and Windows and macOS), have decided to add another s […]

Google rethinks its planned changes to Chrome’s extension API that would have broken many ad-blocking extensions. Ars Technica reports that Google has made this revision to “ensure that the current variety of c […]