CloudLinux offers CentOS 8 users a support lifeline
Red Hat won't support CentOS 8 past the end of the year - but CloudLinux will provide updates and support to CentOS 8 until the end of 2025, giving CentOS 8 users a critical lifeline.
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Ubuntu Linux gets certified for secure and regulated workloads
Canonical has announced that Ubuntu is set to drive high security and regulated workloads thanks to gaining a new FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) certification. Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, Canonical's product manager for security, states, "With the new FIPS 140-2 validation, we can continue to deliver the security requirements that our government, finance, and healthcare clients trust to implement the most secure open-source software to power their infrastructure."
Case Study: Payment Processor Streamlines Threat Detection and Response
Uptycs - a leader in cloud-native security analytics - is helping organizations close security observability gaps across attack surfaces with its Uptycs Security Analytics Platform. Learn how Uptycs is helping a SaaS-based payment processing solution vendor automate their risk analysis and reduction strategy.
Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner
Microsoft now has its own lightweight and secure Linux distro, CBL-Mariner. With the distro's limited size also comes a minimal attack surface, making it easy to deploy security patches to it via RPM. Its designers also make a particular point of delivering the latest security patches and fixes to its users.
Mozilla Firefox 90 Is Now Available for Download, Removes Built-In FTP Support
Mozilla Firefox 90 is now available to Linux users for download, removing built-in FTP (File Transfer Protocol) support, and introducing support for Fetch Metadata Request Headers, a security feature that lets web apps protect themselves and you against various cross-origin threats, such as cross-site request forgery (CSRF), cross-site leaks (XS-Leaks), or speculative cross-site execution side channel (Spectre) attacks.
Tails 4.20 Anonymous OS Released with Brand-New Tor Connection Assistant
Tails, the amnesic incognito live system known for the anonymity it provides users online, has been updated to version 4.20 - a release that introduces a brand-new connection wizard for the Tor network.
Deepin Linux 20.2.2 Introduces a Brand-New App Store, Secure Boot Support
Deepin Linux 20.2.2 has been released featuring the eye-candy Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE), a brand-new app store and secure boot support, along with various bug fixes.
