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Event  The security landscape is constantly shifting. If you're running Linux, staying ahead may rely on understanding the challenges - and opportunities - unique to Linux environments.…

Infosec in brief  A teenager has pleaded guilty to calling in more than 375 fake threats to law enforcement, and now faces years in prison.…

Systems Approach  I have been playing around with passkeys, or as they are formally known, discoverable credentials.…

Developers looking to continue working in the C and C++ programming languages amid the global push to promote memory-safe programming now have another option that doesn't involve learning Rust.…

Switzerland's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about malware being spread via the country's postal service.…

An Ohio man, who operated the Grams dark-web search engine and the Helix cryptocurrency money-laundering service associated with it, has been sentenced to three years in prison.…

Science fiction author Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics, and you'd never know it from the behavior of today's robots or those making them.…

A critical zero-day vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks' firewall management interface that can allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code is now officially under active exploitation.…

A major US mortgage lender has told customers looking to make the biggest financial transaction of their lives that an intruder broke into its systems and saw data belonging to 171,000 of them.…

Webinar  As organizations expand their digital footprint, the range of endpoints - spanning from laptops to IoT devices - continues to grow.…

The US is sending the main figure behind the 2016 intrusion at crypto exchange Bitfinex to prison for five years after he stole close to 120,000 Bitcoin.…

Private businesses and public-sector organizations are unwittingly exposing millions of people's sensitive information to the public internet because they misconfigure Microsoft’s Power Pages website creation problem.…

A now-patched, high-severity bug in Fortinet's FortiClient VPN application potentially allows a low-privilege rogue user or malware on a vulnerable Windows system to gain higher privileges from another user, execute code and possibly take over the box, and delete log files.…

A rampant cybercrook and repeat attacker of medical facilities in the US is being sentenced to a decade in prison, around seven years after the first of his many crimes.…

Children's shoemaker Start-Rite is dealing with a nasty "security incident" involving customer payment card details, its second significant lapse during the past eight years.…

The full list of messaging apps officially blocked by Brit banking and insurance giant NatWest Group is more extensive than WhatsApp, Meta's Messenger, and Skype – as first reported.…

The head of tech security at Asda, the UK's third-largest food retailer, has left amid an ongoing tech divorce from US grocery giant Walmart.…

The cyber security agencies of the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have issued their annual list of the 15 most exploited vulnerabilities, and warned that attacks on zero-day exploits have become more common.…

The US government has confirmed there was "a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign" conducted by China-linked snoops against "multiple" American telecommunications providers' networks.…

Bitdefender has released a free decryption tool that can unlock data encrypted by the ShrinkLocker ransomware.…