Jit, a startup programming security company, dreams of being a top security power. To help make those dreams a reality, Jit recently hired Simon Bennetts, the founder of the world’s most popular web app security scanner, Open Web Application Security…Read … Continue reading →

Innovation Chainguard takes a new approach to building a container Linux with all the security you’d need already baked in. There are many Linux distributions designed expressly for containers. Even Microsoft has one, Common Base Linux (CBL)-Mariner.…Read More

AT&T Alien Labs has discovered a new Linux malware program targeting endpoints and IoT devices. Usually, Linux malware targets servers and cloud instances. You know, where there’s big-time CPU horsepower to turn to cryptocurrency mining. Shikitega,…Read More

When Gartner recently looked into its crystal ball, it saw, “By 2025, more than 50% of enterprise-managed data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud.” So where will it be then? It will be on edge … Continue reading →

The Rust in Linux debate is over. The implementation has begun. In an email conversation, Linux’s creator Linus Torvalds, told me, “Unless something odd happens, it [Rust] will make it into 6.1.” Want a good tech job? Then you need … Continue reading →

Column A few years ago developers knew eBPF as a handy way to build firewalls yet now it’s used everywhere for everything. Get ready for io_uring to do the same. Most people don’t know the first thing about Linux programming. … Continue reading →