OpenELA Commits to Building RHEL-Compatible Operating Systems
DevOps.com
AUGUST 16, 2023
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE are forming a trade group committed to developing Linux distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Red Hat Automates More Operating System Tasks
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Red Hat today announced an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that automates a wide range of manual tasks. available in a few weeks, expands the Red Hat System Roles capability that provides a prescriptive and automated means of managing operating system […].
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Torvalds’ Bug Warning is a Lesson for Linux Users
DevOps.com
APRIL 7, 2021
Linux does, occasionally, raise security concerns. While many users see it as the most secure, robust and versatile operating system available — that’s this writer’s opinion, as well — security precautions still have to be taken. The post Torvalds’ Bug Warning is a Lesson for Linux Users appeared first on DevOps.com.
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The Linux Foundation Throws Weight Behind Secure Microkernel
DevOps.com
APRIL 7, 2020
The Linux Foundation announced today it will host the seL4 Foundation, the nonprofit organization established by Data61, an arm of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia that has been developing the seL4 microkernel operating system.
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DBOS: A better way to build applications?
InfoWorld
APRIL 29, 2024
At the end of March 2024, Mike Stonebraker announced in a blog post the release of DBOS Cloud , “a transactional serverless computing platform, made possible by a revolutionary new operating system, DBOS, that implements OS services on top of a distributed database.” As such, storing OS state is a database problem.
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Native Java Debugging on Alpine Linux: GDB, OpenJDK and the Mysterious Unknown Signal
OverOps
MAY 21, 2019
Porting a software project to a new operating system is always interesting and fun, and Alpine Linux with its musl libc brings a unique set of challenges. A while ago, I was tasked with porting OverOps’ native agent to Alpine Linux. LLDB on Alpine Linux. Coping with JVM Signals. Unfortunately, it was still there!
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Frequently Asked Questions About CVE-2024-3094, A Backdoor in XZ Utils
Tenable
MARCH 29, 2024
Frequently asked questions about CVE-2024-3094, a supply-chain attack responsible for a backdoor in XZ Utils, a widely used library found in multiple Linux distributions. XZ is a type of lossless data compression on Unix-like operating systems, which is often compared to other common data compression formats such as gzip and bzip2.
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Cloudera’s RHEL-volution: Powering the Cloud with Red Hat
Cloudera
MARCH 22, 2024
That’s why Cloudera and Red Hat , renowned for their open-source solutions, have teamed up to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL ) to Cloudera on public cloud as the operating system for all of our public cloud platform images. Let’s dive into what this means and why it’s a game-changer for our customers.
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CVE-2022-47939: Critical RCE Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Tenable
DECEMBER 29, 2022
CVE-2022-47939: Critical RCE Vulnerability in Linux Kernel A critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been publicly disclosed by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative in its ZDI-22-1690 advisory. ZDI disclosed the vulnerability to the Linux team in July 2022, and was patched on August 17 in the 5.15.61
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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019
Linux Academy
APRIL 30, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Now Available In Linux Academy Cloud Playground
Linux Academy
MAY 16, 2019
Linux Academy is happy to announce that the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Distribution is available in the Linux Academy Cloud Playground. Cloud Playground is included in both individual Linux Academy memberships , as well as business memberships. How To Launch Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 in Cloud Playground.
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What’s Free At Linux Academy June 2019
Linux Academy
MAY 28, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
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Detecting Drovorub's File Operations Hooking with Tracee
Aqua Security
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
This blog was co-authored by Itamar Maouda Two years ago, the NSA (the United States' National Security Agency) revealed that Drovorub, an advanced Russian malware created by the GRU 85th GTsSS team, had been discovered targeting Linux systems. It has an advanced kernel rootkit that hooks several kernel functions.
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Senser Unveils AIOps Platform Using eBPF to Collect Data
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Senser launched an AIOps platform that leverages eBPF in Linux operating systems to collect data from IT environments.
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What’s Free at Linux Academy — March 2019
Linux Academy
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group, allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
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5 Ways to Protect Scanning Credentials for Linux, macOS and Unix Hosts
Tenable
MAY 15, 2020
Here, we focus on ’nix style systems: Linux, Unix and macOS. In part 2 , I provided specific guidance for Windows systems. In part 2 , I provided specific guidance for Windows systems. Please note that enabling some of these controls may have other effects on your network and systems. Credentialed Scans.
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Challenge Accepted: An Adventure in Linux Part 2
Linux Academy
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
When I can’t do what I want via the GUI, my first instinct is to go to the command line and what’s Linux if I can’t just use the command line? As Elementary is an Ubuntu-based operating system, I went ahead and installed the repositories needed to be able to install packages through using Snapd. sudo apt install snapd.
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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019
Linux Academy
APRIL 29, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
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Docker tutorial for beginners
InnovationM
AUGUST 17, 2023
Each virtual machine needs a full copy of the operating system. They are lightweight and do not need a full operating system. It uses the host’s operating system. Since the operating system has already started on the host, the container will start quickly.
What’s Free At Linux Academy February 2019
Linux Academy
JANUARY 29, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.
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Tips for installing Citus and Postgres packages
The Citus Data
JANUARY 22, 2022
In this blog post, we will focus on Citus open source packaging and installation. But what if you want to see which operating systems the Citus packages support? Is there a matrix of all the operating systems supported by Citus? Citus is a great extension for scaling out Postgres databases horizontally.
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141 Linux Training Courses | New January Releases
Linux Academy
JANUARY 27, 2019
Dive into our latest Linux training courses and Hands-On Labs, and let us know which course you’re most excited to start with #ReleaseTheTraining. Don’t miss your chance to win a free year of Linux Academy! New Hands-On Linux Training Courses. Kali Linux Deep Dive. Linux Operating System Fundamentals.
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Linus Torvalds Signals Support for Memory-Safe Rust Language
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
of the Linux operating system. It would take several additional releases of Linux to add full support for […]. The post Linus Torvalds Signals Support for Memory-Safe Rust Language appeared first on DevOps.com.
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Free Cloud Courses at Linux Academy — July 2019
Linux Academy
JUNE 25, 2019
By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students can develop their Linux and Cloud skills even further. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Principal Systems Engineer from Symantec Corporation and Ell Marquez for a Threat Report Rundown. Become a Master.
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RedHat is acquiring container security company StackRox
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
RedHat, which is perhaps best known for its enterprise Linux products has been making the shift to the cloud in recent years. CEO Kamal Shah, writing in a company blog post announcing the acquisition, explained that the company made a bet a couple of years ago on Kubernetes and it has paid off.
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Challenge Accepted: An Adventure in Linux — Part 1
Linux Academy
JANUARY 25, 2019
Hello once again, Linux Academy family! I am back and in a different role within Linux Academy. I’m not sure about you, but the first thing I do with a new laptop is rekick/reimage the operating system! This is true even when it’s a Linux-based laptop. Simply enough because I can.
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Datavail
OCTOBER 15, 2019
We use Performance Monitor to view the live stats and performance of the system counters. What are the similar utilities for us do the same on Linux? Htop is an enhancement of another system monitoring tool called top. Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool. Yes – you can run it on Linux and on Window.
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Introduction to Flutter
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Flutter was created by Google to help developers create frontends that run on almost any operating system, including Android, iOS, Mac, Linux, Windows desktop and the web. Flutter is a development tool for creating cross-platform applications. Ready to check it out? Installing Flutter To […].
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CVE-2021-3156 sudo Vulnerability Allows Root Privileges
Aqua Security
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
A new severe vulnerability was found in Unix and Linux operating systems that allows an unprivileged user to exploit this vulnerability using sudo, causing a heap overflow to elevate privileges to root without authentication, or even get listed in the sudoers file.
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Red Hat Expands RHEL Subscription Program for Developers
DevOps.com
JANUARY 20, 2021
Red Hat is extending its developer program to make it simpler for both individual developers and small teams to access a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system subscription. These programs are launched in the wake of Red Hat’s decision to no longer invest in an open source CentOS Linux distribution project.
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8 Different Types of Programmers
The Crazy Programmer
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
To become a software developer, the person needs to know a bit about the operating system to work with, such as Linux, Mac, and Windows. They develop and design eCommerce websites for blogs, social media, video, and file-sharing websites. System Hardware Developers. Software QC Or Quality Control Specialist.
Agentless Workload Scanning Gets Supercharged with Malware Scanning
Prisma Clud
JUNE 22, 2023
Users can now gain visibility into vulnerabilities and compliance across Linux and Windows-based cloud workloads for AWS, Azure and GCP — without having to deploy agents. But security teams are unable to secure cloud workloads if their existing solution doesn’t support the operating system.
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Agencies Offer Secure AI Tips, while Stanford Issues In-Depth AI Trends Analysis, Including of AI Security
Tenable
APRIL 19, 2024
Because an SBOM lists the “ingredients” that make up a software program, it can help IT and security teams identify whether and where a vulnerable component is present in their organizations’ applications, operating systems and other related systems. CIS Debian Linux 11 Benchmark v2.0.0 CIS Ubuntu Linux 18.04
Datadog Dives Into Universal Service Monitoring
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
today made generally available a Universal Service Monitoring service that takes advantage of the extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) microkernel in a Linux operating system to automatically detect all the services that make up an application environment without changes to the code used to construct them. Datadog, Inc.
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CVE-2023-41064, CVE-2023-4863, CVE-2023-5129: Frequently Asked Questions for ImageIO and WebP/libwebp Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Tenable
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Background The Tenable Security Response Team has put together this blog to answer frequently asked questions (FAQ) to help provide clarity around recently disclosed vulnerabilities including CVE-2023-41064, CVE-2023-4863 and CVE-2023-5129 in an open source library called libwebp. What is WebP or libwebp?
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Libbpf Vs. BCC for BPF Development
DevOps.com
MAY 3, 2022
If you’re into Linux development, you’ve probably heard BPF mentioned over the last few years. BPF apps can get deep access into an operating system and enable you to perform tasks such as high-performance load balancing, DDoS mitigation and […]. The post Libbpf Vs.
Cybersecurity Snapshot: How To Boost the Cybersecurity of AI Systems While Minimizing Risks
Tenable
JANUARY 12, 2024
CTAs crafted a phishing email, built a convincing fake landing page, and set up the reverse proxy to capture the credentials,” reads a CIS blog. This has lowered the barrier of entry for CTAs with limited technical proficiencies,” the blog adds. CIS CentOS Linux 7 Benchmark v4.0.0 – final update CIS Cisco NX-OS Benchmark v1.1.0
NVIDIA Aims to Drive Disaggregation Following Cumulus Networks Buy
DevOps.com
MAY 11, 2020
The acquisition of the provider of a network operating system (NOS) based on Linux follows an earlier move by NVIDIA to acquire Mellanox, a provider of networking and storage systems. Adoption of open source networking may be about to get a boost following the forthcoming acquisition of Cumulus Network by NVIDIA.
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Harmonizing Real-Time on Edge Platforms
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
What’s the best approach: using Linux, an RTOS (real-time operating system), a hypervisor or something else for edge platforms? Edge computing platforms sit at the boundary between the real-time world and the digital enterprise. Let’s talk about […].
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Red Hat Streamlines Operating System Update Cycle
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 7, 2019
CentOS is a distribution of Linux based on a fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The team that oversees CentOS operates independently of Red Hat. The post Red Hat Streamlines Operating System Update Cycle appeared first on DevOps.com. That team in collaboration […].
Using Secure Configurations | Standardize Your Security
Linux Academy
MAY 31, 2019
This included installing operating system updates, NTP servers, DNS servers, static IPs, audit log options, anti-virus, etc. As soon as an image or template is out of date, we deploy insecure operating systems, which is what this security control prevents. Monitoring Changes to Identify Attackers or Rogue Employees.
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Weekly Update 6-3-2019
Linux Academy
JUNE 3, 2019
This week, we’re talking all about serverless computing, what it is, why it’s relevant, and the release of a free course that can be enjoyed by everyone on the Linux Academy platform, including Community Edition account members. You have to launch the virtual servers, which means you need to: Choose an operating system.
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CVE-2021-21972: VMware vCenter Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Tenable
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would result in an attacker gaining unrestricted RCE privileges in the underlying operating system of the vCenter Server. Klyuchnikov published a blog post detailing his discovery of the vulnerability, as well as two separate paths to achieve RCE. Proof of concept.
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Splunk Donates eBPF Telemetry Data Collector to CNCF
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Splunk’s data collector runs as a sandbox-level program at the kernel of a Linux operating system and takes advantage of extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology […]. Splunk Inc. The post Splunk Donates eBPF Telemetry Data Collector to CNCF appeared first on DevOps.com.
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