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“Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

January 3, 2018 feed

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Windows, Linux, and macOS have all received security patches that significantly alter how the operating systems handle virtual memory in order to protect against a hitherto undisclo

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Web host agrees to pay $1m after it’s hit by Linux-targeting ransomware

June 19, 2017 feed

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A Web-hosting service recently agreed to pay $1 million to a ransomware operation that encrypted data stored on 153 Linux servers and 3,400 customer websites, the comp

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Serious privilege escalation bug in Unix OSes imperils servers everywhere

June 19, 2017 feed

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A raft of Unix-based operating systems—including Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD—contain flaws that let attackers elevate low-level access on a vulnerable compu

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How to install Linux on a Chromebook (and why you should)

June 19, 2017 feed

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Chromebooks are one of the most secure devices you can give a non-technical end user, and at a price point few can argue with, but that security comes with a privacy trade off: you ha

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