Linux is known for being a flexible and highly stable operating system and its almost a certainty that you have a few instances of a Linux OS somewhere within your infrastructure. One of the main selling points of Linux is the fact that its open-sourced. There are plenty of benefits when using open sourced operating systems as it creates an environment of flexibility and customizability that closed operating systems simply cannot match. Additionally open-source software has the reputation of quality and security because bugs are identified and fixed by the much larger open-source developer community. But all this freedom and code-sharing comes at a price. Because there is so much freedom, it has fostered a huge number of Linux distributions that cause a great deal of confusion when trying to standardize and support only a few flavors.

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The Catalyst 13.1 Proprietary Linux Graphics were just let loose into the wild, and it provides budding Linux gamers with bona fide GPU support for a huge swath of AMD Radeon graphics cards. Everything from the Radeon HD 5000 series to the RadeonE6760 embedded family is supported as well as cards that are stuffed within all-in-one PCs, integrated GPS and AMD Mobility GPUs. The latest version of the AMD Catalyst Linux software suite is designed to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite 5.7, 5.8, 6.2 and 6.3, SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 and 11 SP2, OpenSUSE 11.4 and 12.1, and Ubuntu 12.10. Known issues and further instructions are there in the via link and you can feel free to leave a FINALLY comment below if you are appreciative of getting a bit of well-deserved Linux.

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Rootkit.Linux.Snakso.a is designed to infect the Linux kernel version 2.6.32-5-amd64 and adds an iframe to all served web pages by the infected Linux server via the nginx proxy. The malware appears to be in its development stages as the code is rather large (more than 500k including debugging information) and Kaspersky.

Security researcher said that the code does not seem to be a variant of a publicly available rootkit, but a result of contract work of an intermediate programmer with no extensive kernel experience. The malware is also likely to have been customized by the buyer which introduced critical flaws. Researcher speculated that based on his research the rootkit may have been created by a Russia-based attacker. The security researcher concluded that the code quality would be unsatisfying for a serious targeted attack, including a lack of any obfuscation and proper HTTP response parsing which ultimately also led to discovery of this rootkit.

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There are all kinds of Linux hosting servers.The most complicated of these require you to be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE). Many of them require you to do more than download a distro, burn a CD and install and boot up your new bare-bones servers.Well, one excellent choice is TurnKey Linux.

With TurnKey Linux the only hardware you need is any device that can support a Web browser and a credit card. That’s because while you can run TurnKey Linux on an ordinary dedicated server or on VMWare, OpenStack, or OpenVZ, the mindlessly simple and fast way to do it is to spin up your own server on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Here’s how it works.

TurnKey Linux until recently was built on Ubuntu Linux 10.04. Now, the core TurnKey Linux is in the process of being migrated to old but rock solid Debian Squeeze (6.0.4) Linux distribution. But you as someone who just needs a server Right Now don’t need to worry about what’s happening in the background. No all you have to do is pick the appropriate TurnKey Linux server.

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The software nasty targets machines running 64-bit GNU/Linux and a web server and acts like a rootkit by hiding itself from administrators, writes The Register’s John Leyden. A browser fetching a website served by the compromised system will be quietly directed via an HTML iframe to malicious sites loaded with malware to attack the web visitor’s machine.

Considering that this rootkit was used to non-selectively inject iframes into nginx webserver responses, it seems likely that this rootkit is part of a generic cyber crime operation and not a targeted attack, CrowdStrike senior security researcher Georg Wicherski wrote in a detailed analysis.However, a Waterhole attack, where a site mostly visited from a certain target audience is infected would also be plausible. Since no identifying strings yielded results in an Internet search. it appears that this is not a modification of a publicly available rootkit.

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