It makes sense that UEFI bootkits would work on Linux machines, at that level your operating system doesn't matter to your motherboard. What has been delaying hackers is the infection vector itself,…
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Perfctl is a nasty piece of malware which has recently been discovered and as a testament to it's sneaky nature, security researchers believe it has been spreading undetected on Linux systems since…
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This week has not been good for the sanity of system admins and knowledgeable users both, as there is hardly a system nor network that remains untouched by a new insecurity issues. …
Read MoreWhile Josh might not have been with us, we certainly did mention him. In mostly good ways. All this while we discussed the latest AMD 8000 F-Series, Dell XPS with AMD and…
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Thanks to a curious and technically skilled engineer by the name of Andres Freud, Linux admins are living in a bit of a nightmare world. He discovered a backdoor in the XZ…
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If you like playing with old hardware and have run into troubles finding replacement silicon or would like to pump up the performance significantly, then check out the PiStorm32-Lite and other PiStorm…
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Hey Linux admins, time to update your GNU C Library to 2.38 as glibc 2.37 and glibc 2.36 have a rather nasty vulnerability. There is a difficult but not impossible to exploit…
Read MoreWhat is fifty-three minutes in time, and yet timeless? This episode of the PCPer podcast, of course! Yes, we made Podcast History (tm) once again this week, and did it in just…
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If you are running iOS 16, macOS 13 Ventura, iPadOS 16.5.1, macOS 13.4.1, and watchOS 9.5.2 you had better get patching! There are two zero days out there you are...
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You can add this to the list of things done with Linux because someone figured they could pull it off, as there isn't much of a usage case for a MMU-less system…
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If you've run into workloads on your AMD powered Linux box that are slower than expected, a fix is on the way to make your life better. There is an ancient workaround…
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Phoronix have spent some time with the Intel Arc A380 on the Linux 6.0 core; which is required as is the i915.force_probe module option and Mesa 22.2. You should also ensure to…
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We are starting to see a few companies such as Dell return to offering laptops which are running Linux, instead of Windows. There are also some Windows laptops which are advertised as…
Read MoreNvidia still dealing with hacked data, AMD asks for no OC on their 5800X3D and fixes stuttering due to onboard TPM, Threadripper releases, plenty of Apple M1 Ultra to go around, and…
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Several pipelines have been in the news lately, but this one is a wee bit different as it refers to the pipelines in Linux used to pass data from one process to…
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You may not have known that Intel has been working on developing a real time Linux Kernel, but apparently they have been for more than 10 years. They have brought new…
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Humble Choice, Humble Bundle's subscription service, will be going through some drastic changes as of February. They are dropping their current three tiers for a single $12/month tier, which does...
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Lemonduck is not new malware, it has been driving sysadmins nuts since 2019 but some of what it does is rather unique. It started as a cryptocurrency miner which spread...
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