Over the span of just 14 days, threat actors unleashed more than 81 million login attempts against Microsoft’s Azure command-line interface (CLI). The campaign, which security researchers at Huntress identified as an ongoing, automated password-spray...
You’re staring at a service or a cron job that’s giving you a bad feeling. Stop. The most dangerous thing you can do right now is act on that gut feeling alone. Linux systems are inherently noisy—package managers, configuration management, and the oc...
Building effective behavioral detections starts with understanding how processes behave at runtime, rather than simply collecting more logs. eBPF gives Linux security teams the visibility needed to correlate those behaviors into meaningful detections...
When a security alert fires, the panic often sets in before the analysis. Many administrators instinctively reach for /var/log/auth.log or journalctl, but those logs tell only a partial story. They document successful logins and authentication attemp...
SELinux troubleshooting is a necessary skill for any system administrator. When a service fails despite correct file permissions and ownership, the immediate instinct is often to disable SELinux to confirm if the security policy is the bottleneck. Wh...
When a production server spikes at 99% CPU or the disk starts grinding, the knee-jerk reaction is usually to blame a bad code push or a runaway backup job. But if you’ve spent enough time in security incident response, you know that "performance issu...