My Linux story: I grew up on PC Magazine not candy
In 1998, the movie Titanic was released, mobile phones were just a luxury, and pagers were still in use. This was also the year I got my first computer. I can remember the details as if it were yesterday: Pentium 133MHz and just 16MB of memory. Back in that time (while running nothing less than Windows 95), this was a good machine. I can still hear in my mind the old spinning hard drive noise when I powered that computer on, and...
Pros and cons of event-driven security
Great news, everyone! Forrester Research says that 95% of all recorded breaches in 2016 came from only three industries: government, technology, and retail. Everyone else is safe… ish, right? read...
An iTunes Bug Let Hackers Spread Ransomware
FBI overreach, hacker payback, and more of the week’s top security news.
System76 will ship Coreboot-powered firmware, a new OS for the apocalypse, and more open source news
In this edition of our open source news roundup, we cover System76 shipping Coreboot-powered firmware, a new OS for the apocalypse, and more open source news! read...
Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200
A new proof-of-concept hardware implant shows how easy it may be to hide malicious chips inside IT equipment.
