Blog Series
Month: October 2020
Monthly KernelCare Update – October...
The KernelCare team strives to help make sure you never miss a critical patch. In October, we worked to provide you with simple instructions on how live patching of Linux...
Case Study: University of Zagreb...
Educational institutions are being hacked on a regular basis, and this trend shows no signs of improvement: over half (54%) of UK universities reported a data breach to the regulator...
8 Tools to Keep Linux...
Keeping Linux servers updated and patched isn’t the job of just one tool. You need several tools to ensure your servers are configured properly and aren’t a target for the...
Behind the Scenes at KernelCare:...
Testing is essential for any software update including patches, but it’s even more essential when changes are made to critical infrastructure that powers revenue-impacting services. Release of security updates that...
Linux Server Security Best Practices...
Whether your system is running in a local office or remotely in a data center, security is vital to any environment. Unfortunately, there are often considerable security concerns associated with...
Tools for Meeting and Maintaining...
Meeting System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 compliance is more than just a simple process implemented once to pass an audit. Permanent procedural changes are tedious and time-consuming but are...
Rebootless Patches for ‘BleedingTooth’ are...
Google security researchers recently found a flaw in the way the Linux kernel’s Bluetooth implementation handled L2CAP packets with A2MP CID. A remote attacker in range could use this flaw...
Rebootless Patches for ‘BleedingTooth’ are...
Google security researchers recently found a flaw in the way the Linux kernel’s Bluetooth implementation handled L2CAP packets with A2MP CID. A remote attacker in range could use this flaw...
KernelCare+ Beta Has Completed –...
No downtime or non-compliant? That is the question for companies that do not use automated patch services. There is no middle ground when it comes to the security of your...
How to Try or Purchase...
Since the beginning of KernelCare+ Beta testing, we’ve been working hard on the automation of the trial and purchase of live patching for shared libraries. Today, we are glad to...
Rebootless patches for RHSA-2020:3861 are...
Last year, a CVE-2019-19126 vulnerability was discovered in glibc, where the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable is not ignored when running binaries with the setuid flag on x86_64 architectures. This allows an...