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An IoT botnet was partly behind Friday's massive DDOS attack

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Oct 24, 2016
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Easy-to-exploit rooting flaw puts Linux computers at risk

The maintainers of Linux distributions are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability that's already being exploited in the wild and poses a serious risk to Linux based servers, desktops and other devices. Read More

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