Building a pocket Linux server with Termux and an old phone was a challenge. But I unlocked new possibilities for file ...

Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

Microsoft recently announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit North America 2026 in Minneapolis. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based, general-purpose server distribution ...

Approximately 6 million internet-accessible systems are using FTP today, and almost half of them do not use encryption, a fresh Censys report shows. In use for more than half a century, FTP uses a ...

Nearly 6 million web servers – about 3% of the global total – still expose FTP services, relying on the 55-year-old legacy file transfer protocol. Due to inherent security weaknesses, security experts ...

A botnet known as GoBruteforcer has been actively targeting Linux servers exposed to the internet, using large-scale brute-force attacks against common services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL and ...

Remote access tools have become essential for developers, system administrators, and power users. While SSH scripts like takeover.sh make it easy to control Linux systems from another computer, modern ...

Whenever you make a connection to a network host and send your password as part of the authentication process, the connection is insecure. It doesn't matter whether the connection is telnet, ssh, ftp, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Some weeks start better than others. If you are a member of an ...

Linux servers are known for their reliability and security, which has made them popular in both enterprise and individual deployments. However, no system is impervious to attacks. With cyber threats ...

Exploiting a catalog of 20,000 misconfigurations to infect Linux servers, the cryptomining malware has gone largely undetected through use of process masquerading but appears capable of more. Security ...

A multipurpose and mysterious malware dropper has been terrorizing Linux servers worldwide for years, infecting untold thousands of victims with cryptomining and proxyjacking malware. A fresh analysis ...