Oracle Autonomous Linux keeps cloud servers running while installing security patches and bug fixes, and automatically tunes performance.

Attackers are free-riding Linux servers with an unpatched Samba bug to mine for the monero cryptocurrency. Now would be a good time install a patch released by open-source project Samba on May 25 ...

Zero-day flaws in the Linux kernel patched last year took on average more than two years to fix, twice as long as it took to fix those affecting current Windows OS, a report by security ...

Linux 4.0 does, however, include a number of new innovative capabilities, including a live kernel patching capability that could help further advance server high availability.

Two elevation of privilege vulnerabilities have been discovered on the popular Sudo utility, affecting 30-50 million ...

Don’t necessarily expect your Linux desktop to get rebootless patching any time soon, as this requires some work to implement. But it’s a big deal for Linux servers and clusters that need all ...

Now database live patching is available in beta that allows TuxCare to apply security patches to Maria, MySQL, Mongo, and other kinds of databases while they’re running. “So you do not have to restart ...

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.

A Microsoft-sponsored study finds that patch management of Windows clients and servers can cost less than that of comparable open-source systems.

Generate enterprise-grade SSH keys and load them into an agent for control of all kinds of Linux hosts. Script the agent with the Parallel Distributed Shell (pdsh) to effect rapid changes over your ...