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The Dell Sonicwall Threats Research team have come across a new ransomware family called Locky.

Over the holiday weekend, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency became a victim to a ransomware attack.

Investigators from the US Department of Justice, the FBI, Eurojust, Europol, and other global partners announced the takedown of a massive botnet named “Avalanche,” estimated to have involved as many as 500,000 infected computers worldwide on a daily basis.

Mozilla moves quickly to fix vulnerability that was being actively exploited in attacks against Tor Browser, which is based on Firefox.

Zorin OS is one such flavor — a desktop-focused Linux distribution with the goal of helping Windows and macOS users to make the transition to Linux.

The transaction announced today also includes a non-exclusive agreement under which HPE will OEM SUSE’s OpenStack IaaS and SUSE’s Cloud Foundry PaaS technology for use inside HPE’s Helion OpenStack and Helion Stackato solutions.

Starting today, ESET® will offer ESET Threat Intelligence, a service that predicts and proactively notifies customers of real-time threats targeting their businesses so they can be more flexible when adapting to a rapidly changing threat landscape. The service will be rolled out through 2017. Built on a unique blend of our core disciplinary knowledge and latest technologies, ESET Threat Intelligence allows … Read More

According to the description of the attack, firewalls will suffer performance issues if hit by a few 10s of MBits of ICMP traffic, even for firewalls that are supposed to be able to dell with Gigabit networks.

Windows 10 is a really great desktop operating system, but it is not for everyone. For those that care deeply about security and privacy, an open source Linux-based operating system is a wise alternative. The problem? Learning a new user interface can be hard for some. If you have always used a Windows OS in the past, moving to a desktop … Read More

We’re proud to announce the availability of the Zorin OS 12 Core and Ultimate–the biggest release in the history of Zorin OS. With this new version, we’ve introduced an entirely new desktop experience that will make your computer more useful, more powerful and more enjoyable to use.   Zorin Desktop 2.0 We have entirely reimagined the Zorin Desktop environment in … Read More

In May this year, we reported on Microsoft’s upcoming plans to bring its SQL Server to the Linux platform, providing developers and organizations with freedom of choice for both cloud and local infrastructures when it comes to implementing a powerful database server. And now, it looks like Canonical prepared a public preview of SQL Server on Linux, allowing Ubuntu users to get familiar with it.

At a time when the size of distributed denial-of-service attacks has reached unprecedented levels, researchers have found a new attack technique in the wild that allows a single laptop to take down high-bandwidth enterprise firewalls. The attack, dubbed BlackNurse, involves sending Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets of a particular type and code. ICMP is commonly used for the ping … Read More

Among the many areas that IBM is pushing forward with its Power architecture is in deep learning. Today IBM announced a new tool called PowerAI that aids in helping organizations learn things faster in a bid to generate advanced artificial intelligence capabilities. “PowerAI contains the major machine, deep-learning open-source software that we have optimized and compiled for our POWER8 with … Read More

Looking for a new Linux desktop distribution? You are definitely spoilt for choice. The market is well saturated with quality desktop distributions, featuring different desktop environments. Between Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE, you have a choice of well-supported distributions with lots of up-to-date software and commercial backing, as well as a choice of almost any desktop environment like GNOME, Unity or … Read More

An old Linux security ‘feature’ script, which activates LUKS disk encryption, has been hiding a major security hole in plain sight. Sometimes Linux users can be smug about their system’s security. And sometimes a major hole that’s been hiding in Linux since about version 2.6 opens up and in you fall. Please do not code this way. When a system … Read More