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    New Report: Severe Flaws in Cyberoam’s Firewall and VPN Technology Left At Least 86,000 Networks Vulnerable to Exploit
    Date 17 May 2020
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    Know The Enemy: Upgrade Your Threat Detection Strategy with Honeynets
    Date 17 May 2020
    Open Source Intelligence, Security Hacking, and Security Blogger Dancho Danchev
    Open Source Intelligence, Security Hacking, and Security Blogger Dancho Danchev
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    Decade of the RATs: Is Linux Secure?
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    Github uncovers malicious ‘Octopus Scanner’ targeting developers
    Github uncovers malicious ‘Octopus Scanner’ targeting developers
    Date 01 Jun 2020
    Category Hacks/Cracks
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    Have you heard about 'Octopus Scanner', a dangerous strain of malware targeting developers on Github? Github has stated: "Since the primary-infected users are developers, the access that is ...

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    New software security tool to detect bugs in OS
    New software security tool to detect bugs in OS
    Date 01 Jun 2020
    Category Security Projects
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    Have you heard about the Universal Serial Bus (USB) - a portable, flexible, and modular framework for fuzz testing USB drivers? It can be used to identify vulnerabilities in the USB driver ...

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    Google sued by Arizona for tracking users’ locations in spite of settings
    Google sued by Arizona for tracking users’ locations in spite of settings
    Date 29 May 2020
    Category Privacy
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    Have you heard that Arizona has filed suit ...

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    National Security Agency Exposes Tool Used By Russian Hackers
    National Security Agency Exposes Tool Used By Russian Hackers
    Date 29 May 2020
    Category Hacks/Cracks
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    The National Security Agency (NSA) has publicly accused Sandworm, an infamous Russian hacking group, of ...

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    Removing A False Sense Of (open source) Security
    Removing A False Sense Of (open source) Security
    Date 28 May 2020
    Category Security Trends
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    The value of OSS is undeniable. OSS offers organisations greater flexibility and cost savings. However, it needs to be understood that no software is completely bullet proof and OSS shares ...

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    LinuxSecurity.com Launches New site, Celebrates 20 Years of Following Open Source Security News and Resources
    LinuxSecurity.com Launches New site, Celebrates 20 Years of Following Open Source Security News and Resources
    Date 29 Jul 2019
    Category LinuxSecurity.com Feature Articles
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    LinuxSecurity.com, the open-source community’s go-to source for security news and information, has revealed a completely new site design and a renewed focus on providing timely, ...

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    Secure your Linux network with firewall-cmd
    Secure your Linux network with firewall-cmd
    Date 24 Jun 2019
    Category LinuxSecurity.com HOWTOs - How to secure my network
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    Firewalls are a vital part of network security, so it’s important for a sysadmin to be familiar with how they work. If you understand firewalls, you can keep your ...

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    Baltimore ransomware attack will cost the city over $18 million
    Baltimore ransomware attack will cost the city over $18 million
    Date 06 Jun 2019
    Category Hacks/Cracks
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    Fresh off dealing with chaos caused by last month's ransomware attack, the city of Baltimore has a new problem to deal with -- the $18 million in damages that came with ...

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    Linux Security Week: April 22nd, 2019
    Linux Security Week: April 22nd, 2019
    Date 22 Apr 2019
    Category Linux Security Week
    Author Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

    Thank you for reading the LinuxSecurity.com weekly security newsletter. The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick summary of each week's most relevant Linux ...

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    Android phones transformed into anti-phishing security tokens
    Android phones transformed into anti-phishing security tokens
    Date 12 Apr 2019
    Category Security Projects
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

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    New software security tool to detect bugs in OS
    New software security tool to detect bugs in OS
    Date 01 Jun 2020
    Category Security Projects

    Have you heard about the Universal Serial Bus (USB) - a portable, flexible, and modular framework for fuzz testing USB drivers? It can be used to identify vulnerabilities in the ...

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    Github uncovers malicious ‘Octopus Scanner’ targeting developers
    Github uncovers malicious ‘Octopus Scanner’ targeting developers
    Date 01 Jun 2020
    Category Hacks/Cracks

    Have you heard about 'Octopus Scanner', a dangerous strain of malware targeting developers on Github? Github has stated: "Since the primary-infected users are developers, the access that is gained is ...

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    New software security tool to detect bugs in OS
    New software security tool to detect bugs in OS
    Date 01 Jun 2020
    Category Security Projects

    Have you heard about the Universal Serial Bus (USB) - a portable, flexible, and modular framework for fuzz testing USB drivers? It can be used to identify vulnerabilities in the ...

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    Github uncovers malicious ‘Octopus Scanner’ targeting developers
    Github uncovers malicious ‘Octopus Scanner’ targeting developers
    Date 01 Jun 2020
    Category Hacks/Cracks

    Have you heard about 'Octopus Scanner', a dangerous strain of malware targeting developers on Github? Github has stated: "Since the primary-infected users are developers, the access that is gained is ...

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    HOWTOs

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    How to password protect files in...
    Date 25 May 2020
    Getting started with GPG (GnuPG)
    Getting started with GPG (GnuPG)
    Date 22 May 2020
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    Date 20 May 2020
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    Date 19 May 2020
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    Date 18 May 2020
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    Date 08 May 2020
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    Date 06 May 2020

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    Advisories

    SciLinux: SLSA-2020-2344-1 Important: bind on SL7.x x86_64
    Date 01 Jun 2020 @ 04:38
    SciLinux: SLSA-2020-2334-1 Important: freerdp on SL7.x x86_64
    Date 01 Jun 2020 @ 04:38
    RedHat: RHSA-2020-2345:01 Important: bind security update
    Date 01 Jun 2020 @ 02:25
    RedHat: RHSA-2020-2344:01 Important: bind security update
    Date 01 Jun 2020 @ 01:33

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    Security Center

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