How Many Linux Systems Do You Use? Don’t Answer Too Quickly
Jan 26,
2016
“Linux? Where you have to type everything and it’s all a bunch of cryptic nonsense like this? ls -laRF | less I don’t use it, I never would!” Don’t answer so fast. While Linux runs 97% of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, it runs on many devices you encounter in everyday life. And it’s not just […]
The Shellshock Bug Hits Linux and the Internet of Things
Sep 27,
2014
The security world came abuzz recently when a very serious bug was announced in the GNU Bash shell. It’s a bad one, easy to exploit and with serious results. The new trend is to give a significant bug a catchy name and logo, and this one quickly became known as Shellshock. Here is a […]
Hotel Security and the Internet of Things
Sep 22,
2014
The Hilton chain of hotels, a total of 11 brands, is rapidly increasing the degree to which customers can use their smart phones not only as reservation tools but as keys. They have announced that guests will, by the end of this year, be able to use their smart phones to select their room at […]