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The Linux Foundation has launched a project to guarantee the security of critical systems using Linux. It’s called it ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) and its objective is to create an...

The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has developed together with the Nodalblock company a ticket tracking system based on blockchain . This technology will allow activating and monitoring t...

Security experts at Check Point have discovered a new Trojan that exploits vulnerabilities in six Linux distributions and macOS devices. This malware is able to implement a backdoor in the system t...

Data security is undoubtedly one of the aspects that most concerns both private users and organizations. If you are a GNU / Linux user, Tomb may be the tool you were looking for. It’s a free and Op...

Security researcher Sergey Zelenyuk has discovered a zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox, the Open Source virtualization software developed by Oracle. This failure allows malware to leave the virt...

The latest release of the VDI and vApp connection broker vApp UDS Enterprise 2.2 introduces a new concept in the configuration of virtual desktops: persistent desktops at user level. This new devel...

After the soaring problems with the Meltdown and Specter, Intel is once again experiencing security-related issues. This time it is a vulnerability called Lazy FP State Restore, which affects the I...

Making a secure connection to any web page or server is nowadays essential, since there are many illicit practices that pursue the objective of subtracting sensitive information from users. When it...

Eight new variants of Spectre affecting Intel chips have been found by a team of security researchers. These new vulnerabilities have been named Spectre Next Generation and make it possible to run ...

Microsoft continues to take steps to get closer to Linux supporters. The latest surprise was the announcement of Azure Sphere, an operating system , based on Linux, whose objective is to improve th...

On Monday, March 26 Luxembourg will host the third edition of the Open Source Security Software Hackathon. The event, organized by the hack.lu team will bring groups of developers together to work ...

When our computer stops working, the disk is damaged, we suffer a data loss from the main unit or it becomes infected with a virus, we look for a fast and effective solution. Since prevention is be...

Although Linux is considered the safest operating system, it has recently been proven that it is not always safe from vulnerabilities. Therefore, it is important to adopt security measures that gua...

In May of this year 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will enter into force, which will be mandatory in all countries of the European Union. This new regulation will affect all co...

Since the beginning of the year, the alarms about the existence and effects of Meltdown and Spectre have been raised, news related to these attacks do not stop popping out. The latest information s...

The company Snyk has released a report that analyzes The State of Open Source Security focusing on three main areas: the Open Source panorama, the life cycle of a vulnerability detected in Open Sou...

In the world of VDI, balance is also essential when it comes to user experience and security. Unfortunately for VDI administrators, there is no all-powerful chosen one who can swoop in and deliver ...

Printers and multifunction printers (MFPs) are not immune to the security threat and are vulnerable to the same risks as any device on the network. As IoT devices they are susceptible to the growin...

Millions of IT professionals have been praising desktop Linux for ages for some reasons that privacy is a new one of them. Chrome OS and Android, for example, are Linux distributions, but they perf...

Yesterday, Docker announced that Docker for AWS is graduating to public beta. Docker for AWS is a great way for ops to setup and maintain secure and scalable Docker deployments on AWS. With Docker ...

If you’ve used tools like Docker, you already know that these tools are capable of isolating processes in small “containers”. Running processes in Docker containers is like running them in virtual ...