February 11, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on VMware Finds Linux Malware on the Rise
Linux is largely secure. Sure, it has security problems like any other operating system, but they tend to get fixed quickly and completely. Unfortunately, if you don’t install Linux correctly on your servers or clouds, while you may not be … Continue reading
January 25, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Don’t cheap out on essential hardware
On the Reddit SysAdmin group, I recently read a horror story. A car dealership had been using a 14-year-old desktop for its one and only business server. On it, the company was running two business’ customer-relation management (CRM) programs and their inventory management … Continue reading
January 12, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Open source isn’t the security problem – misusing it is
We’re going to be cleaning up Apache Log4j security problems for months to come, but the real problem isn’t that it was open-source software. It’s how we track and use open-source code. When security vulnerabilities were found in the extremely popular … Continue reading
December 9, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on It’s time to move off CentOS 8, here are your best choices.
The end of CentOS 8 Linux has been coming for awhile now, and the day is finally here. On December 31, 2021, Red Hat‘s CentOS Linux 8 will reach End Of Life (EOL). Since that falls right in the heart of the holiday season, … Continue reading
January 20, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Red Hat introduces free RHEL for small production workloads and development team
When Red Hat announced it was switching up CentOS Linux from a stable Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone to a rolling Linux distribution, which would become the next minor RHEL update, many CentOS users were upset. Now, to appease some of those users, Red Hat is introducing no-cost … Continue reading
January 14, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on How Parler’s Data Was Harvested
Parler, the right-wing social network, is gone. Amazon Web Services (AWS) switched it off. And, Parler, as it was, isn’t coming back. Parler’s data, however, including death threats and geotagged deleted messages, had been scraped and it’s being published on numerous public websites. Here’s how it … Continue reading