Practical Technology

When Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s (RHEL) source code would no longer be easily available, it rocked the world of RHEL clones such as AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, and Rocky Linux. The fight was on! Oracle trash-talked Red Hat and…Read More

Is there room for another hyper-cloud company? Market-leading content delivery network (CDN) power Akamai, after its purchase of Linode, a developer-friendly, Linux-based, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, believes so. Now, with the $900…Read More

Despite the public fascination with elaborate hacking methods in movie after movie, most security breaches don’t require Mission Impossible elite hacker teams. No good old social engineering and credential theft are the real threats. Password misuse…Read More

With SCARLETEEL, attackers can exploit a vulnerable Kubernetes container and pivot to going after the underlying cloud service account. Back in February, the Sysdig Threat Research Team discovered a sophisticated cloud attack in the wild, SCARLETEEL,…Read More

Every few years, people get excited that maybe this will be the year of the Linux desktop. Now, I can argue, and I have, that happened long ago. But when you’re talking about the traditional PC running a desktop Linux system such as Linux Mint, MX…Read More

Sonatype‘s Repository Firewall, a security code scanner, is now available as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), which can be used to help block malicious code from getting into a supply chain early on. The Repository Firewall, Sonatype claims, scans and…Read More