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The article reports on the improving trend concerning mobile malware development. Topics covered include the increase in computer infections rate based on the 2016 Intel Security McAfee Labs Threats Report and the detection of 42 million new malware in 2015. Also mentioned is the impact of the move of Google to launch a monthly patch cycle on Android mobile malware developers.

The article reviews the "Vulnerability Review 2016" report from Secunia Research that monitors the systems and applications by customers of Software Vulnerability Management product line from Flexera Software. Topics discussed include the study findings that there were 25 products that had zero-day vulnerabilities as well as most software vulnerabilities having patches within one day. Also mentioned are charts showing global vulnerabilities from 2009 to 2015 and rising browser vulnerabilities.

The article informs that 25th anniversary edition of the annual RSA Conference was held from February 29-March 4, 2016 in San Francisco. It is noted that Mark McLaughlin, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Palo Alto Networks; Michael Brown, CEO of Symantec; and Martin Fink, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Hewlett Packard were among speakers who highlighted Internet security threat, issues related to hiring and training Information Technology (IT) professionals and improving data security.

The article highlights the companies and products making news at the RSA Conference held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California from February 29 to March 4, 2016. Topics covered include the acquisition of the company Resilient Systems by IBM, the launch of the Anti Targeted Attack Platform and the Security Intelligence Services (SIS) by Kaspersky Lab, and the collaboration between BT and Intel Security to create solutions for improving security and prevent cyber-attacks.

Several charts depicting global data breaches in 2015 based on the Breach Level Index report from security vendor Gemalto including breach of government records, identity theft as the main goal and North America as the most breached region, are presented.

The article discussed the 2016 Cyber Risk Report from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. company that offers worldwide information technology, technology and enterprise products and solutions, that reveals statistics and some analysis on security trends for the 2015. The report reveals increasing risk and exposure to individuals from the collateral damage that flows from large breaches.

The article evaluates the LibreOffice 5.1 enterprise application from the Document Foundation (TDF).

The article reports that according to the report, Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) released by software firm Arbor Networks there is an increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in 2015 and presents several charts on the same. Topics include DDoS affecting internet connectivity, web server Port 80 targeted the most, the use of NetFlow-based analyzers by organizations to detect threats; and domain name system (DNS) and Network Time Protocol (NTP) affected by DDoS.

The article reports that the BlackArch Linux improves its tools for security research. It mentions that the BlackArch Linux security distribution add more tools that help researchers in finding flaws in software, systems and networks. It offers information on the Static PHP Analysis and Fuzzer (spaf) tool to identify entry points.

The article offers brief information on several operating systems including the Solus Operating System 1.0, Raven operating system and Linux desktop operating systems from Firefox.

The article reports on a study conducted by the cloud service provider Akamai on the increasing attempts of security risks such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack with the increasing broadband speeds. Topics discussed include 149G-bps attack observed against a gaming industry customer, several countries that were the source of attacks such as Great Britain and China; and the transport method used by most of the attacks was Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

The article reports that according to recent threats report of McAfee Labs, macro malware are on the rise in third quarter of 2015. It mentions that North America is the top most target for the marco malware. It states that trend of file less malware is observed in 2015 which doesn't drop any files on a infected device and relies on memory resident code. It informs that mobile malware is increasing in 2015.

The article offers brief information on the Linux Mint 17.3 operating system from Linus Torvals.

The article offers brief information on Fedora 23, updated version of Linux distribution system from software company Red Hat Inc.

The article offers brief information on the OpenStack, open-source cloud-computing software platform, from OpenStack.

The article offers brief information on the GNOME 3.18 Open-Source Linux Desktop environment from the GNOME project.

The article presents several bar graphs and a pie chart depicting the August 2015 Threats Report of the software firm Intel Security's McAfee Labs which include a bar graph depicting rise in ransomware, a bar graph showing rise in malware, and a pie chart depicting prevalence of botnets.

The article offers information on the annual VMworld USA conference by the cloud software provider VMware held at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Topics discussed inlcude views of Martin Casado, senior vice president at VMware on his belief of app is the network; notions of Ray O'Farrell, vice president of Cloud Native Apps at VMware, on the vSphere Integrated Containers effort; and notions of Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer at VMware, on imperatives for digital success.

The article offers information on the LibreOffice 5.0.1 Open-Source Productivity Suite, which provides improved stability and performance and includes document, spreadsheet and presentation apps.

The article offers information on the desktop environment Plasma 5.4 from K Desktop Environment (KDE).

Several graphs and charts are presented showing increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks worldwide as per the content delivery network Akamai's second-quarter 2015 state-of-the-Internet security report.

The article focuses on LinuxCon North America conference, which featured Linux operating system and open-source technologie. It mentions that International Business Machines (IBM) announced and displayed its new LinuxONE mainframe. It mentions the views of Linux creator Linus Torvalds on the vision of Linux. It mentions views of Linux kernel developer Jonathan Corbet on new Linux kernel.

Several charts are presented depicting results of the State of Bug Bounty Report 30 by cybersecurity service provider Bugcrowd on topics such as effectiveness of bug bounty programs in improving security, bug reports submitted by India and cross-site scripting (XSS) as top vulnerability.

The article offers information on conferences titled "Black Hat USA 2015 " and "DefCon 23 " discussing the topics including computer systems security vulnerabilities, hacking of weapons, and death certificates for a living person, to be held in the U.S.

The article offers information on the OpenStack open source cloud computing software from OpenStack.

The article focuses on increased risks of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in internet security according to a report by software company Arbor Networks. Topics discussed include attacks reflecting SYN (synchronization) packet floods in computer networking, highest DDoS reflection attacks in France and, a the largest attack size through Network Time Protocol (NTP) reflection.

The article discusses the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit that was organized by electronic commerce firm Amazon.com in New York on July 9, 2015. Topics discussed include presentation by Werner Vogels, chief technological officer (CTO) of Amazon, on trends in cloud computing, improving the security and data utility of services, use of secure application program interface (API) cloud service providers, and forecasts on the cost of cloud usage.

The article evaluates the Mageia 5 Linux distribution, operating system based on Linux, from Mandriva Linux.

The article focuses on the Red Hat Summit, conventions hosted by Red Hat, software company providing open-source software products, held in Boston, Massachusetts, in June 2015. Topics discussed include emphasis on the value of open-source technology by Red Hat's chief executive officer (CEO) Jim Whitehurst, launch of the System Z mainframe operating systems from International Business Machines (IBM), and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (RHEL 7.2) Roadmap.

The article discusses changes in trend of phone fraud as per a research from Pindrop, provider of solutions to protect enterprise call centers and phone users. Topics discussed include fraud calls from voice-over internet protocol (VOIP), highest fraud rates faced by credit card institutions, and electronic commerce as a medium for attackers to exploit victims.

The article presents several charts related to Linux kernel development including one depicting the number of changes for each kernel version, another depicting growth in kernel size, and other listing software companies that contributed to changes in Linux kernel.

The article offers information on several cloud computing technologies showcased by Amazon Web Services (AWS) at AWS' 2014 Re:Invent conference held from November 11 to 14 including the CodeDeploy application lifecycle management (ALM) tool, the CodeCommit ALM tool and the Amazon Aurora database.

The article presents results of a study conducted by American think tank Pew Research Center which reports on how Americans feel about the privacy of their personal information post the revelation of Edward Snowden on online government snooping. Other topics discussed include majority of the study's participants being of the view that the government's monitoring of internet communications and phone calls is concerning and overall lack of confidence in privacy afforded by communication forms.

The article talks about the OpenStack Summit of 2014, which was held from November 3 to 7, 2014 in Paris. Other topics discussed include the summit being an opportunity for users and developers to discuss and demonstrate the latest trends and technology in the OpenStack open-source cloud platform and a slideshow projecting the highlights of the summit.

The article offers information on the SLED 12, updated version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) from SUSE.

The article offers information on services provided by Linux distribution for forensic investigators CAINE (Computer Aided Investigative Environment). Topics discussed include applications and tools provided by CAINE to help investigators for computer security forensics, use of the CAINE 6.0 operating system to examine system memory, and also act as a tool for software firm Apple iOS backup data analysis. It mentions the use of autopsy as forensic browsing tool.

The article presents a second-quarter State of the Internet Report (SOTI) conducted by the cloud computing service provider Akamai on the status of Internet security and bandwidth with some key changes in cyber attack traffic. The report shows that the prevalence of attacks against server port 80 has been double from the first quarter of 2014. It reports on an increase in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) reflection attacks and rise in bandwidth speeds on the Internet.

The article evaluates the Gnome 3.14, a desktop environment which is composed entirely of free and open-source software, developed by the Gnome Project.

The article offers tips to limit security risks in the open-source WordPress blog and content management system platform. Topics covered include the pingback URL tracking feature, and the flaws in the image-processing library plug-in Timthumb. Also mentioned is the need to keep the core server software updated including the Web server, operating system, PHP and Web serverMySQL applications.

The article discusses the use of K Desktop Environment (KDE) by users of Linux and Unix operating systems, and the development of the KDE Plasma 5. Topics covered include the special features of the KDE Plasma 5, the development of the KDE desktop environment as an open-source project, and the different desktop effects and desktop setting options for the KDE. It also discusses the features of the Dolphin file manager inside of the KDE 5.

The article discusses the findings of the first-quarter 2014 State of the Internet report conducted by Akamai, a company that develops software for web content and application delivery, which covers global Internet speeds and attack patterns. Findings include the global average connection speed at the end of the quarter, the growth of the global average connection speed, and attack traffic from 194 countries. The report also found that China is the top source for attack traffic.

The article evaluates the CentOS 7 Linux operating system (OS) which is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 enterprise OS.

The article presents release of the 2014 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) Trends Report by Internet communications VeriSign on DDoS attacks hitting financial customers of the company on June 5, 2014. Topics discussed include attacks by Network Time Protocol (NTP) amplification to the company's network ranges from 50 to 75 gigabyte per second, the NTP attacks risk warnings by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and the attacks targets vendors of media and entertainment.

The article previews the Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon software for desktop computers.

The article examines key findings from the 2014 Trustwave Global Security report released May 21, 2014 which include the fact that the U.S. is both the top source for attack traffic and the most attacked country. Other topics discussed include a downward trend in Spam to 70% in 2013, the password "1234567" as the most popular among victims of the Pony botnet and Java vulnerabilities toping the most prevalent exploits detected by Trustwave.

The article presents the highlights of the OpenStack Juno Summit held in Atlanta, Georgia on May 12-16, 2014. OpenStack Foundation executive director Jonathan Bryce gave a keynote speech on the condition of information technology (IT). Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth announced a deal with International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and the launch of its managed cloud services. Various sessions also addressed cloud security measures.

The article reports on a user survey conducted by U.S.-based open source cloud platform OpenStack on open space deployments around the world. Findings include the facts that the U.S. is the top country for deployments, that OpenStack users run different OpenStack releases without always updating to the latest version and that the Ubuntu Linux operating system is the top choice for OpenStack clouds in production followed by Puppet as the leading deployment tool and Grizzly.

The article offers information on Amnestic Incognito Live System (Tails), U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden's Linux distribution of choice, which hit its 1.0 release on April 29, 2014.

The article reports that the OpenStack Foundation has officially launched the OpenStack Icehouse cloud on April 17, 2014. The open source software was a joint project by open cloud company Rackspace and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The software is supported by the world's leading technical companies like International Business Machines (IBM), Hewlett Packard (HP), and Intel. Software firm Red Hat is said to be the lead contributing company for the software.

The article features the Ubuntu 14.04 long-term support (LTS) release software.