Winboat is a new technology to run Windows apps on Linux. If the developers can deliver, this will be a game changer.

SSH known hosts store server fingerprints to prevent security risks. Learn how to use SSH known host commands to manage entries on Linux systems.

These files contain all the components needed for the code to run — a bit like a Java application — but are rarely scanned by anti-malware engines and can go largely undetected.

Researchers have uncovered a piece of botnet malware that is capable of infecting computers running Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux that have Oracle's Java software framework installed.