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.

Linux 60

Linux AWS Big Data Course 60

Lacework

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Chris HallCloud Security Researcher, Lacework Labs Whether you’re an engineer or a system administrator, you’ve probably found bash to be a go-to resource for automating your Linux tasks. Bash is so useful that it has become popular among malware authors as well.

Systems Administration 52

Systems Administration Malware Linux Research 52

Lacework

MARCH 6, 2024

Unlike traditional malware, LOTL techniques exploit trusted system tools already present in the environment, making detection incredibly difficult. how known binaries are abused) but the specific approach differs between Windows and Linux systems. Defending against LOTL abuses in Linux environments is much more difficult.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Windows Linux Malware 52

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

The new cash and loan, Miller said, will be put toward bolstering the company’s engineering and R&D departments and strengthening its ongoing sales and marketing outreach. “ To build detection engine models, security companies will ingest millions of samples, indicators and artifacts from a variety of sources,” he added.

Off-The-Shelf 221

Off-The-Shelf Survey Banking Malware 221

The Parallax

JANUARY 22, 2018

Its success was predicated not on “zero-day” vulnerabilities or new forms of malicious software, but rather on older, known malware delivered via an all-too-familiar method: phishing. The malware included hacked versions of end-to-end encrypted communication apps Signal and WhatsApp.

Malware 170

Malware Spyware Mobile Government 170

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MAY 7, 2024

OpenAI has shared some samples generated by Voice Engine, their (still unreleased) model for synthesizing human voices. sotrace is a new tool for Linux developers that shows all the libraries your programs are linked to. It is distinct from Valkey , the fork launched by the Linux Foundation. Ship it” culture is destructive.

Artificial Inteligence 76

Artificial Inteligence Trends Malware Open Source 76

Lacework

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Workload: Mass scanning for vulnerabilities Workloads, which include computing resources like Linux and Windows hosts, are susceptible to compromise. Once the scanning process uncovers possible targets, the next phase is exploitation, where the threat actors deploy various forms of malware. Malware (e.g.,

Weak Development Team 111

Weak Development Team Malware Cloud Internet 111

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2021

Microsoft points out that reverse engineering ML models are easily copied and reverse-engineered. The attack came through malware planted in a security product from SolarWinds. Google’s FuschiaOS, a possible replacement for the Android’s Linux kernel, is now “ open for contributions.” The end of CentOS Linux ?

Trends 100

Trends Artificial Inteligence Linux Systems Review 100

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Bun is an open source JavaScript shell that can run on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Generative AI will make social engineering and phishing more convincing; it will enable inexperienced actors to create much more dangerous attacks. A variant of the Mirai malware is attacking Linux systems. JavaScript as a shell language?

Artificial Inteligence 74

Artificial Inteligence Trends Software Review Open Source 74

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Kerla is a Linux-like operating system kernel written in Rust that can run most Linux executables. I doubt this will ever be integrated into Linux, but it’s yet another sign that Rust has joined the big time. library (UA-Parser-JS) installs crypto miners and trojans for stealing passwords on Linux and Windows systems.

Trends 126

Trends Artificial Inteligence Machine Learning Linux 126

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

It supports iPhones, Windows, Linux, MacOS, and web browsers. PyPI has been plagued with malware submissions, account takeovers, and other security issues. It’s not just Linux. The Prossimo project is improving memory safety on the Internet by rewriting important Unix/Linux infrastructure components using Rust.

Artificial Inteligence 92

Artificial Inteligence Trends ChatGPT Open Source 92

Tenable

MARCH 29, 2022

On March 15, CrowdStrike published technical details and a proof-of-concept for CVE-2022-0811, a vulnerability they have named cr8escape, in the CRI-O Container Engine for Kubernetes. CRI-O is an open source container runtime engine that is used to share kernel resources among applications running on a container node. Proof of concept.

Malware 52

Malware Policies Linux Open Source 52

Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The blue team deployed the Cortex XDR Pro for Endpoint agent on both Windows and Linux endpoints. This would be the case if they opted out of the Linux evaluation.) Each of these detections was categorized based on the detection quality observed. None – There was no detection. (No

Linux 118

Linux Analytics Testing Network 118

Tenable

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

On September 2, Censys, a search engine for discovering internet devices, published a blog post analyzing the number of hosts vulnerable to CVE-2021-26084. BleepingComputer reports they’ve reviewed a separate active exploit that attempts to install the Kinsing malware, which Trend Micro analyzed in November 2020.

Data Center 101

Data Center Software Review Authentication Linux 101

Gorilla Logic

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Web servers typically run on either Linux or Microsoft Windows machines, with most website hosting companies using Linux. Database engine: The repository for the website’s data, including information such as products, orders, transactions, user records, etc. Nginx and Apache account for over 60% of Internet traffic today.

PHP 52

PHP Web Development Linux Windows 52

Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You can use Wazuh in a Docker container or on Linux, Windows, and macOS systems. You can use GRR in a Docker container or on standard Linux systems. You can use Osquery on Windows, Linux, and macOS machines. Recently turned over to The Linux Foundation to ensure continued support. GRR is composed of a client and a server.

Tools 109

Tools Linux Analysis Open Source 109

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Programming The free, open source Godot game engine is proving to be an alternative to Unity. OpenTofu , OpenTF’s fork of Hashicorp’s Terraform, has been backed by the Linux Foundation and adopted by several major enterprises. Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware. A nice piece of analysis.

Artificial Inteligence 87

Artificial Inteligence Trends Open Source ChatGPT 87

Tenable

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Microsoft addresses 60 CVEs in its September 2021 Patch Tuesday release, along with patches for a critical vulnerability in its MSHTML (Trident) engine that was first disclosed in an out-of-band advisory on September 7. Windows Subsystem for Linux. 4 Critical. 56 Important. 0 Moderate. Windows Key Storage Provider. Windows Scripting.

Windows 87

Windows SMB Azure Storage 87

Tenable

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Claire Tills, senior research engineer with Tenable's Security Response Team, contributed to this item.). The Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan ” (The Linux Foundation and The Open Source Security Foundation). Alongside the guidance from these U.S. Software Supply Chain Best Practices ” (CNCF).

Security 52

Security IoT Open Source Linux 52

Lacework

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Learn about: Secure communication, data classification, phishing, physical security, social engineering, data privacy, third-party/application security. Other free modules in the learning path will teach you about Linux and Windows fundamentals, network basics, and how the web works. . Structure: Videos, text transcript, or test.

Video 52

Video AWS Training Linux 52

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 5, 2022

The argument about whether Google’s LaMDA is “sentient” continues, with a Google engineer placed on administrative leave for publishing transcripts of conversations that he claimed demonstrate sentience. Linus Torvalds predicts that Rust will be used in the Linux kernel by 2023. Autonomous vehicles should have the same advantage.

Artificial Inteligence 87

Artificial Inteligence Trends Software Review 3D 87

Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Prisma Cloud Command Line Interface (CLI) — twistcli — allows users to scan images for vulnerabilities, compliance issues, malware and secrets with the ability to operate on a developer’s laptop, as well as their CI/CD tooling. We’re excited to announce this much sought after feature — image analysis sandbox.

Google Cloud 81

Google Cloud Serverless Azure Weak Development Team 81

AlienVault

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Empire can deploy PowerShell and Python agents to infect both Windows and Linux systems. Empire is detected as it is installed and executed on a machine with the following detections: Malware Infection - Windows Defender Malware Detected. It provides a management platform for infected machines. Install itself for persistence.

Malware 40

Malware Windows Linux Network 40

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

A government (probably North Korea) is targeting security researchers in the US and elsewhere, using various forms of social engineering (including asking researchers to collaborate on a research project) and malware. Security and Privacy. TabFS is a browser extension that allows you to mount your browser tabs as a filesystem.

Trends 88

Trends Systems Review Technical Review Software Review 88

Xebia

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Use the following command on the terminal for Linux or Mac: ifconfig | grep -E ‘([0-9]{1,3}.){3}[0-9]{1,3}’ First of all you should always validate the input of the user and secondly most modern template engines provide ways to output encode user controlled data. Now it is time to fix the problem.

Applications 130

Applications Testing Authentication How To 130

The Parallax

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Currently a senior security engineer at GitLab , Loveless’ career dates back to the early 1990s. They pulled the hard drive out of the wall safe, plugged it into my Linux laptop, booted it up off of a different drive, and then accessed files and copied it. “ I had an incident occur in my hotel room at Black Hat.

Hotels 131

Hotels Conference Government Linux 131

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 16, 2024

A couple of weeks ago, a supply-chain attack against the Linux xz Utils package, which includes the liblzma compression library, was discovered just weeks before the compromised version of the library would have been incorporated into the most widely used Linux distributions. We’ve been very lucky. or “I’m trying to help you.”

Malware 91

Malware Open Source Linux Social 91

Kentik

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Cloudflare Suspends Torrent Website for Cryptocurrency Miner ‘Malware’ (CoinDesk). Google security engineers found “seven vulnerabilities including three potential remote code executions, one information leak, and three denial of service vulnerabilities” in the software.

Internet 40

Internet Software Review Network Systems Review 40

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Prior to being the high performance computing lead, Dan served as the lead system engineer for the NCCS over the past 10 years where he has architected dramatic increases in computational and storage capabilities for NASA scientists. Before joining NASA in 2003, Dan worked on highly parallel applications for the Department of Defense (DoD).

Fractional CTO 134

Fractional CTO Technical Review Big Data Analytics 134

CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Prior to being the high performance computing lead, Dan served as the lead system engineer for the NCCS over the past 10 years where he has architected dramatic increases in computational and storage capabilities for NASA scientists. Before joining NASA in 2003, Dan worked on highly parallel applications for the Department of Defense (DoD).

Fractional CTO 113

Fractional CTO Program Management Programming Big Data 113

Prisma Clud

JUNE 20, 2023

Not All Applications Are Built the Same Real-world applications make use of a diversity of workload types, container runtimes, engines and architectures, which poses a significant challenge to runtime protection solutions. In the realm of cloud security, the role of security operations center (SOC) engineers shouldn’t be forgotten.

Cloud 105

Cloud Development Team Review Serverless Linux 105

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

But what’s new is Devin : an AI software engineer from Cognition Labs. Its makers claim that it “can execute complex engineering tasks requiring thousands of decisions. A supply chain attack added a back door to Linux systems through the widely used xz package. It’s available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Artificial Inteligence 75

Artificial Inteligence Trends Open Source Linux 75

Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

Alicia is an expert in hunting and collecting threats, and in reverse-engineering malware using code analysis. Before we share what happened in the heat of the moment, let’s take a break instead and learn who Alicia is. Who’s Alicia?

Windows 55

Windows Systems Review Policies Software Review 55

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s now used in operating systems (Linux kernel components), tool development, and even enterprise software. Prompt engineering, which didn’t exist in 2022, became a significant topic, with roughly the same usage as Transformers. Data engineering deals with the problem of storing data at scale and delivering that data to applications.

Trends 116

Trends Technical Review Technology Artificial Inteligence 116

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 10, 2021

An attacker plants malware on your system that encrypts all the files, making your system useless, then offers to sell you the key you need to decrypt the files. An email to a victim entices them to open an attachment or to visit a website that installs malware. Chaos engineering, an approach developed at Netflix, is a good idea.

Backup 137

Backup Google Cloud Systems Review Authentication 137

Lacework

JUNE 2, 2022

For years, Lacework has helped security teams understand what’s happening in their workloads via an agent that runs on Linux operating systems. that typically require threat detection or anti-malware and file integrity monitoring that includes OS coverage. clusters, nodes, pods, and containers. . Virtual Machines. Containers .

Windows 52

Windows Linux Systems Review AWS 52

Palo Alto Networks

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Cortex XDR has added support for new log formats, including LEEF and Elastic Filebeat, and can ingest additional types of log files, including AWS® CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Google Kubernetes® Engine and PingFederate®. Endpoint Agent Enhancements.

Systems Review 98

Systems Review Malware Linux Virtualization 98