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Microsoft Unveils New Antimalware Engine Capabilities for Linux and macOS

Microsoft's new antimalware engine for Linux and macOS will help protect devices or endpoints within organizations.

April 27, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Microsoft announced an upgrade to its next generation of protection on Linux and MacOs with a new Microsoft Defender Antivirus malware engine. The new antimalware engine brings machine learning, big-data analysis, in-depth threat research, and the Microsoft cloud infrastructure to protect devices (or endpoints) within organizations. The new antimalware engine in Microsoft Defender is currently […]

AlmaLinux and Home Assistant Now Independent Cryptographic Validators for Codenotary’s Free Service Enabling Supply Chain Security

April 27, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Independent validation by large open source projects further strengthens Community Attestation Service HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#SBOM—Codenotary, leaders in software supply chain security, today announced it has added independent cryptographic validator nodes to its free and open source Community Attestation Service (CAS), providing another level of transparency, security and third-party verifiability of the data open-source projects notarize and […]

CIQ and Google Cloud to Provide Optimized Experience for Rocky Linux

April 6, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

RENO, Nev.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CIQ and Google Cloud have joined forces to provide mutual customers a direct and unified best-in-class support experience for Rocky Linux. Rocky Linux is a community-maintained and freely available enterprise Linux distribution founded and led by Gregory M. Kurtzer, one of the original founders of CentOS. Since the project was launched, there have […]

AlmaLinux OS 8.5 for PowerPC Now Available, Distribution Inches Closer to Parity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

February 25, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

CentOS successor delivers support for PowerPC architectures widely used in embedded systems, high-performance processors, and other special purpose computing devices PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the only community owned and governed open source CentOS alternative, today announced a new stable release with support for the PowerPC architecture and IBM […]

Cybercriminals Are Using Malware To Target Linux-Based Systems

VMware Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) details how cybercriminals are targeting Linux-based systems with ransomware and cryptojacking attacks.

February 9, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

With 90% of multi-cloud environments running on Linux-based systems and current malware countermeasures mostly focused on addressing Windows-based threats, attackers have found a golden opportunity to strike as cybercriminals are increasingly targeting Linux-based operating systems, according to latest research from VMware. The company’s new report, “Exposing Malware in Linux-based Multi-Cloud Environments,” shows ransomware is evolving […]

Cybercriminals Target Linux-based Systems With Ransomware and Cryptojacking Attacks

February 9, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

VMware report finds more than half of Cobalt Strike users are using the tool illicitly PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As the most common cloud operating system, Linux is a core part of digital infrastructure and is quickly becoming an attacker’s ticket into a multi-cloud environment. Current malware countermeasures are mostly focused on addressing Windows-based threats, leaving […]

Linux Foundation Now Offering Open Source Software Development Certification

The three course program from edX and The Linux Foundation covers Linux, Git and other open source software development tools.

January 19, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, has announced the availability of three new training courses on its edX platform: Open Source Software Development: Linux for Developers (LFD107x), Linux Tools for Software Development (LFD108x), and Git for Distributed Software Development (LFD109x). The three courses can be taken individually or combined to […]

Linux Foundation Now Enrolling for Intro to Open Source & Fundamentals of Open Source Courses

The Linux Foundation is now enrolling for two online training courses that cover knowledge necessary for an entry-level IT role.

December 17, 2021 TD Staff Leave a Comment

The Linux Foundation has announced the immediate online enrollment for two courses: Introduction to Open Source License Compliance Management (LFC193)  and Fundamentals of Open Source IT and Cloud Computing (LFS200). The Introduction to Open Source License Compliance Management (LFC193) course explores the basic concepts and approaches needed for an open source compliance program. The two-hour online […]

AlmaLinux Delivers First HPC CentOS Replacement on Microsoft Azure

December 14, 2021 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Purpose-built Linux image developed in collaboration with Microsoft and the AlmaLinux community for deploying HPC workloads on Microsoft Azure PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the community owned and governed open source CentOS alternative, today announced availability of the first AlmaLinux high-performance computing (HPC) image for deploying HPC workloads on […]

Elastic Announces New Osquery Manager Integration and Memory Threat Protection for macOS and Linux

December 8, 2021 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Providing Users with Real-Time Visibility and Expanding Protection Against Advanced Attack Techniques MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) (“Elastic”), the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced new integrations and enhancements across the Elastic Security solution in its 7.16 release, enabling users to accelerate detection and response, increase real-time visibility into their data, protect […]