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Cybersecurity Best Practices for Email Templates Enhancing Data Security

Template email is more than a design tool in the campaign of consistent communication; it also has a hidden danger.LinuxSecurity

  

Ubuntu Pro Minimal 22.04 LTS with CIS hardening is now generally available on AWS

August 28, 2025 – We are excited to announce the general availability of Ubuntu Pro Minimal 22.04 LTS with CIS

  

What Is a Privilege Escalation Vulnerability?

Imagine this scenario: you’re managing Linux servers that host critical applications, where uptime is everything and security is non-negotiable. You’re

  

Canonical’s Ubuntu to be supported on NVIDIA Jetson Thor

Canonical commits to Ubuntu long-term support and security patching for NVIDIA Jetson Thor, bringing real-time performance, out-of-the-box compatibility, and a

  

69% of organizations in Europe believe adopting open source makes them more competitive – new Linux Foundation research

New report indicates that open source adoption increases productivity, and offers opportunities for developing digital sovereignty and advancing AI projects

  

Generating allow-lists with DNS monitoring on LXD

Allow-listing web traffic – blocking all web traffic that has not been pre-approved – is a common practice in highly

  

Linux Rootkits: Detecting, Preventing, and Surviving an Attack

Let’s talk about a threat that’s smart, sneaky, and dangerous to your Linux systems: rootkits. If you’ve ever heard the

  

Docker Desktop 4.44.3 Security Update Mitigates Container Escape Risk

Docker containers are supposed to provide a safe boundary”a virtual sandbox separating workloads from the host machine. When that boundary

  

Enhancing SMB Linux Security with Managed IT Support Solutions

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can’t afford to take a hit when it comes to security. And many SMBs rely

  

Broadcom and Canonical expand partnership to optimize VMware Cloud Foundation for modern container and AI workloads

Collaboration combines the leading cloud OS with the industry’s first unified private cloud platform to accelerate cloud native innovation [LAS

  

Arch Linux Under Fire: DDoS Attack Enters Second Week

If you’ve tried pulling files from Arch’s main site, hit the AUR, or popped into their forums recently, then you’ve

  

A complete security view for every Ubuntu LTS VM on Azure

Azure’s Update Manager now shows missing Ubuntu Pro updates for all Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases: 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and

  

Kali Vagrant Rebuilt: Out With Packer, In With DebOS

Vagrant files, *.box, are pre-configured Virtual Machines (VM) VM images, which when imported into HashiCorp’s Vagrant, allow for VMs to

  

CVE-2023-46604: Critical Threat for Linux Servers Running ActiveMQ

CVE-2023-46604 is not just another box on your patching to-do list”it’s a major remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache

  

Canonical is now a platinum member in the Open Source Robotics Alliance

Ubuntu is the home of ROS. The very first ROS distribution, Box Turtle, launched on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Hardy Heron,

  

AMD SEV-SNP host support available on Ubuntu 25.04

Ubuntu 25.04 introduces full AMD SEV-SNP host support, making Ubuntu the first production-grade Linux distribution to deliver end-to-end confidential computing

  

What Is A Virtual Private Network (VPN)?

If you’re managing a Linux environment, on-prem or in the cloud, chances are you’ve already tangled with questions of network

  

Tails OS 7.0~rc2: A Closer Look at Whats Coming in This Security-Focused Release

If you’ve worked with Tails OS before, you already know it’s not just another privacy-focused Linux distro ”it’s the go-to

  

Real-time OS examples: use cases across industries  

In sectors where precision and predictability are non-negotiable, timing is everything. Whether coordinating robotic arms on a factory floor, maintaining

  

RingReaper Malware: A Stealthy Challenge for Linux Defenders

There’s a new tool of mischief in the Linux cybersecurity world, and it’s not just a cause for concern”it’s quite

   

Kali Linux 2024.4

A Kali Linux fejlesztői csapata kiadta a 2024.4-es verziót, amely az év negyedik és egyben utolsó frissítése. A frissítés 14

   

A Play Ransomware új Linux változata az ESXi rendszereket célozza

A LinuxSecurity oldalon megjelent cikk a Play zsarolóvírus csoport fejlődését tárgyalja, amely az utóbbi időben a Linux rendszereken futó VMware

   

Mallox Ransomware: A növekvő fenyegetés a Linux szerverekre

Az Uptycs kutatócsoportja nemrégiben a Linux szervereket célzó zsarolóvírus-támadások növekedését figyelte meg. Az elemzés a Linux-szerverek felé történő elmozdulást mutatta

   

A DISGOMOJI malware az indiai kormány elleni támadásokban emojikat használ a parancsok végrehajtásához

A Volexity kiberbiztonsági cég egy újonnan felfedezett, “DISGOMOJI” nevű Linux malware-t azonosított. Ez a rosszindulatú szoftver egy újszerű módszert alkalmaz,