reader comments 14 Stealthy and multifunctional Linux malware that has been infecting telecommunications companies went largely unnoticed for two years until being documented for the first time by researchers on Thursday. Researchers from security firm Group-IB have named the remote access trojan “Krasue,” after a nocturnal spirit depicted in Southeast Asian folklore “floating in mid-air,… Read More »
Enlarge / Cue files used to be much better-known, back when we all used CD-Rs to make legal backup copies of material that we owned outright. Getty Images reader comments 6 with It has been a very long time since the average computer user thought about .cue files, or cue sheets, the metadata bits that… Read More »
reader comments 7 with Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen backdoor for Linux that’s being used by a threat actor linked to the Chinese government. The new backdoor originates from a Windows backdoor named Trochilus, which was first seen in 2015 by researchers from Arbor Networks, now known as Netscout. They said that Trochilus executed and… Read More »
Enlarge / A digital Trojan horse. Getty Images | posteriori reader comments 51 with A download site surreptitiously served Linux users malware that stole passwords and other sensitive information for more than three years until it finally went quiet, researchers said on Tuesday. The site, freedownloadmanager[.]org, offered a benign version of a Linux offering known… Read More »
Enlarge / An Alameda County couple watches as investigators prepare to retrieve the body of Nina Reiser in the Oakland hills in July 2008. Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS file system, provided the location after his 2008 murder conviction. Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images reader comments 123 with When Apple… Read More »
Enlarge / AlmaLinux lets you build applications that work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux but can’t promise the exact same bug environment. That’s different from how they started, but it’s also a chance to pick a new path forward. AlmaLinux OS reader comments 7 with I asked benny Vasquez, chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation,… Read More »
How can you argue against these numbers? 20th Century Fox / Aurich Lawson reader comments 146 with According to one measurement by one firm, Linux reached 3.07 percent market share of global desktop operating systems in June 2023. It’s a notable first for the more than 30-year-old operating system, though other numbers in Statcounter’s chart… Read More »
Enlarge / A be-hatted person, tipping his brim to the endless amount of text generated by the conflict of corporate versus enthusiast understandings of the GPL. Getty Images reader comments 123 with When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting down its traditional “rebuild” of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to focus on its… Read More »
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Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of an AI-hallucinated computer. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 69 with 0 posters participating Share this story Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot, based on a deep… Read More »