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September 29, 2022
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Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17 arrives

Some people still insist that OpenStack, the open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, is dead. They are so, so wrong. By Statista’s count, OpenStack is the most popular open-source cloud of all. And what’s more important for Red Hat is…Read More

September 27, 2022
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Comments Off on Uber Hack: It’s the Simple Things That Kill Your Security

Uber Hack: It’s the Simple Things That Kill Your Security

In Uber’s last update about its recent hack, the ride-sharing company blamed the Lapsus$ hacking group for its security fiasco. Lapsus$, Uber added, had also breached Microsoft, Cisco, Samsung, Nvidia, and Okta. Over the last week, they’d also…Read More

September 23, 2022
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Jit and ZAP: Improving programming security

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 →

September 22, 2022
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Comments Off on Chainguard releases Wolfi, a Linux ‘undistribution’

Chainguard releases Wolfi, a Linux ‘undistribution’

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