Altiris today updated its software to let customers patch Linux systems as well as manage virtual and physical resources side by side. Altiris’ Server Management Suite, which lets users patch Windows ...

The Linux server operating system, used globally to power the internet, along with cloud storage, back-end business operations, embedded systems, and high-performance supercomputers, has a tarnished ...

The US government is warning that a Linux flaw introduced more than a decade ago - and fixed more than a year ago - is being actively used in ransomware attacks.

PatchMon is a lightweight web dashboard that consolidates your Linux infrastructure’s patch and update status into one clean, ...

Application patch management updates software to remove bugs and security loopholes, so it is an important service that every business needs to buy. We review the options. Keeping applications up to ...

Two security vulnerabilities that impact the Control Web Panel (CWP) software can be chained by unauthenticated attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) as root on vulnerable Linux servers. CWP, ...

Just what every Linux system administrator wants just before the holidays: A serious Linux kernel security bug. The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a zero-day security research firm, announced a new Linux ...

Several Linux kernel versions, including 4.9, 4.14, and the upcoming 4.15, will have Retpoline support built in to mitigate against the Spectre vulnerability. Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the head ...

A Predictable, Simpler and Longer Lifecycle: One of the longest support timeframes in the market, a 16 year total lifecycle, ...

There's a lot of FUD about how Linux is being shown recently to be less secure than proprietary systems. That's nonsense. But, now there are hard facts from Google's Project Zero, Google's security ...

the Lineox rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. But if you prefer apt, the associated tools can be installed on most Linux distributions. In this chapter, you'll learn the fundamentals of apt, ...