If you're looking to automate tasks in Linux, cron is the tool to use. Find out how it's done here.

Security researchers have discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) for Linux that keeps an almost invisible profile by hiding in tasks scheduled for execution on a non-existent day, February 31st.

Continuing with his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen introduces you to the basics of task scheduling with cron.

These jobs are stored in a crontab file, which contains the action to be taken and specifies when it should be executed. I will be using Ubuntu 18.04 for this article, which has cron installed by ...

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IT security researchers have discovered an unusual type of attack: the perpetrators have set up an emulated Linux environment as a backdoor.

You can do this using an SSH key distributed via Puppet and an IdentityFile entry in /root/.ssh/config. If you apply changes now, you should see that there is an entry in root's crontab, and every ten ...