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Trojan also installs a rootkit and another strain of malware that can execute DDoS attacks. Malware targeting Linux users may not be as widespread as the strains targeting the Windows ecosystem, but Linux malware is becoming just as complex and multi-functional as time passes by. The latest example of this trend is a new trojan discovered this month by Russian antivirus maker Dr.Web. This new malware strain doesn't have a distinctive name, yet, being only tracked under its generic detection name of Linux.BtcMine.174. But despite the generic name, the trojan is a little bit more complex than most Linux malware, mainly because of the plethora of malicious features it includes. The trojan itself is a giant shell script of over 1,000 lines of code. This script is the first file executed on an infected Linux system. The first thing this script does is to find a folder on disk to which it has write permissions so it can copy itself and later use to download other modules. O...

Workday said the early batch of customers running its finance and HR software on AWS represents a milestone. Workday is beginning to scale customers who are running the company's finance and human resources software on Amazon Web Services. While multiple software providers such as Infor, Salesforce and SAP have customers running their products on AWS, Workday's move to the public cloud is relatively new. Workday said customers running its software on AWS "signals a milestone" and broadens the company's reach. At Workday Rising Europe, the company highlighted Twitch and Fresche Solutions as customers running Workday applications on top of AWS. The company added that Workday Financial Management and Human Capital Management is available to enterprises based in the U.S. and Canada. Workday will extend AWS support to Germany in the first half of 2019 and expand to other geographies. Workday said running on AWS gives it more freedom to choose how and wh...

A tantalizing glimpse was all Samsung gave. It was still enough to make one ponder. He just   pulled it out of his inside jacket pocket , as if this was just another little thing he carried around with him all the time. And there it was. What is the core excitement here? The sheer relief that it's possible to have a phone that folds? Well, what, exactly? A   camouflaged phone   created to show off Samsung's Infinity Flex Display, the fancy wording for the company's new foldable phone. Samsung's SVP of Mobile Product Marketing, Justin Denison, was effusive at yesterday's Samsung Developer Conference. He used creative phrases such as "taking it to the next level" and "big milestone." He insisted he was "honored" to reveal this whole new generation of smartphones.And then he held the phone up and unfolded it. At least one gasp was heard. "When it's open, it's a tablet offering a big screen experience,...

Vulnerability confirmed on Skylake and Kaby Lake CPU series. Researchers suspect AMD processors are also impacted. Intel processors are impacted by a new vulnerability that can allow attackers to leak encrypted data from the CPU's internal processes. The new vulnerability, which has received the codename of PortSmash, has been discovered by a team of five academics from the Tampere University of Technology in Finland and Technical University of Havana, Cuba. Researchers have classified PortSmash as a  side-channel attack . In computer security terms, a side-channel attack describes a technique used for leaking encrypted data from a computer's memory or CPU, which works by recording and analyzing discrepancies in operation times, power consumption, electromagnetic leaks, or even sound to gain additional info that may help break encryption algorithms and recovering the CPU's processed data. Researchers say PortSmash impacts all CPUs that use a  Simultaneous Mu...