Gumstix, a company that has been selling small system boards – about the size of a “gum stick” – for years, is now offering crowdfunding for hardware that users can design themselves. (Stick with me ...

A financially motivated hacking group named Magnet Goblin uses various 1-day vulnerabilities to breach public-facing servers and deploy custom malware on Windows and Linux systems. 1-day flaws refer ...

MontaVista Software, a key sponsor to the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation announced Rocky Linux 10.x support and ...

Why it matters: In December 2021, the security team at Intezer identified custom-written malware on a leading educational institution's Linux web server. The malware, since named SysJoker, was later ...

Timesys Corp. has an offer that no sane embedded developer who wants to get started with open source Linux can refuse: built-to-spec custom Linuxdistributions for device designs based on the PowerPC, ...

There are strong technical and business reasons to consider using Linux for your next embedded application project such as diverse hardware support, performance, scalability, high reliability, and ...

Follow along with this step-by-step guide to creating your own distribution. In an article in the June 2018 issue of LJ, I introduced a basic recipe for building your own minimal Linux-based ...

NerbianRAT, a remote access malware used by Magnet Goblin, is downloaded on systems initially compromised with critical Ivanti Connect Secure flaws. A financially motivated hacker group, tracked as ...

US authorities have arrested and charged a 20-year-old student from Chicago with providing material support to ISIS. According to court documents, the suspect allegedly created a Python script to ...

Microsoft has done a few custom Linux projects over the years. There was a Linux-based OS for datacenter network switches and a Linux-based microcontroller OS that it built for its Azure Sphere secure ...