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This week, we'll talk about a vulnerable module in the Linux kernel and new platforms to help recognize and mitigate vulnerabilities.

This week, we review Unicode vulnerabilities, container security, and a vulnerable WordPress plugin that we think requires attention.

In this week’s digest, we focus on malware discovered in ua-parser-js, new OS security updates from Apple, and more.

In this week’s digest, we focus on the importance of using Community IDs, SIEM tools, and a vulnerable WordPress plugin.

This week, in addition to celebrating Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we cover FontOnLake Linux Malware and more.

This week, in our regular blog post series from the Linode Security team, we cover Apache and Fail2Ban vulnerabilities and hardening your VPN.

This week, in our new blog post series from the Linode Security team, we cover WooCommerce security, Capoea Malware, and more.

We recently received new information regarding our 2015 security incident which is relevant to Linode customers who activated their account before 2016. As detailed in our January 2016 blog post, we reset passwords for all users at that time after investigating unauthorized access to some customer accounts. This new information confirms the scope of database […]

This week Intel publicly disclosed a group of processor vulnerabilities known as Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS), also referred to as “ZombieLoad”. MDS affects systems that host virtual machines from varying security domains and/or that the system owner does not fully trust, which includes Linode's infrastructure and Linodes themselves.

Earlier this week Intel publicly disclosed a new class of processor vulnerabilities known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). Variants of L1TF affect many single and multi-tenant environments, including some of Linode’s infrastructure and Linodes themselves. Read on for what you can do...

As we outlined in our last network update, our network engineering department has been hard at work revamping our entire Internet-facing network by turning up gobs of capacity and directly peering with hundreds of networks all over the globe. Since then, we have extended our network backbone to all datacenters in North America and Europe. This […]