Bitdefender researchers have found a new IoT botnet named the botnet “dark_nexus” based on a string it prints in its banner. A new IoT botnet, discovered by Bitdefender researchers, is named Dark Nexus. In one of its earliest versions, it used this name in its user agent string when carrying out exploits over HTTP: “dark_NeXus_Qbot/4.0”,...
Two of the new features introduced with NGINX Unit 1.16.0 are familiar to NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus users. NGINX announced the new features of NGINX Unit 1.16.0. The fallback routing option in the NGINX Unit 1.16.0 is similar to the NGINX “try_files” directive and the “upstreams” object introduces a round‑robin load balancing of...
Commercial Certificate Authority (CA), Sectigo, has released an all-in-one, cloud-based web security solution bundled with TLS/SSL certificates. With the new Sectigo Web Security Platform, users can “easily” identify threats and quickly patch vulnerabilities for their CMS from an all-new comprehensive management portal. Through the platform, customers can automate daily scanning for vulnerabilities, receive proactive notifications, and instantly remove...
SUSE, an independent open source software company, has made a commitment to help all organizations that are producing medical devices to fight COVID-19. To that end, SUSE is offering free services such as support and maintenance for its operating system and container technologies to be embedded in and run those medical devices. These SUSE solutions are available immediately to help speed time to market for device manufacturers.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.8, the latest update from the enterprise-class Linux distribution provider has been released.
A customer service employee at GoDaddy.com faced a spear-phishing attack this week. GoDaddy.com immediately locked down the impacted accounts involved in this incident. A customer service employee of one of the largest domain name registrars, GoDaddy.com, has been targeted by a phishing attack this week. This spear-phishing attack allows the hacker to view and modify...
Shortly after the release of Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine), Canonical announced the new development cycle for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The 8th long-term support version of Ubuntu Linux, 20.04 LTS will be launched on April 23rd of 2020 but the first daily build ISO images are now already ready to be downloaded for the users who want to experience the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.