Practical Technology

According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), half of US small-business owners said they had open positions they couldn’t fill this June. But look at it this way: that’s better than May 2022, when it was more than half. That,…Read More

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 benign…Read More

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, 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 becomes more…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

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 faint bells?…Read More