The Palo Alto Networks (PANW) Unit 42 threat research team was quietly going about their business when they spotted yet another malware file in VirusTotal, the community site for suspicious files, domains, IPs and URLs. This one had gotten a … Continue reading →

GitHub’s Copilot is an AI-based, pair-programming service. Its machine learning model raises a number of questions. Open source experts weigh in. Endless cyber-threat pressure could leave security staff burnt out. Here’s what you need to change Read…Read More

Kali Linux is a Linux distribution designed for penetration testing or — yes — hacking. This Debian-based Linux is a security worker’s favorite distribution. And, now Linode, which recently became part of Akamai, is offering Kali as a supported…Read More

Kali Linux, the Linux of choice for hackers and security pros, is now available on the Linode cloud. The Linux Foundation and Snyk’s report, The State of Open Source Security, finds open source security faces hard challenges even as it … Continue reading →

Here a security hole, there a security hole, everywhere a security hole. One of the latest is an obnoxious one labeled CVE-2022-30522. This is a Denial of Service (DoS) attack in the Apache HTTP Server‘s mod_sed module. Is that ringing … Continue reading →

So, there I was in Austin, Texas, covering The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit a few weeks ago when — pop! — an electrical surge blew out my Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5, a great two-in-one Chromebook/tablet. Argh! I was on … Continue reading →