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Open Source is Revolutionizing Careers in Cybersecurity - What You Need to Know

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Technology is an integral part of our everyday lives. Widespread reliance on devices that connect us to the Internet and cloud platforms that facilitate digital communications has markedly increased since the beginning of this pandemic. As technology companies are scrambling to meet businesses’ and consumers’ evolving needs, one trend has become clearly apparent - open-source is at the forefront of modern technological innovation, revolutionizing careers available in the field of cybersecurity in the process. 

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TLS Email Encryption Explained - How To Encrypt Email with TLS

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It is no secret that email is the preferred method of communication for businesses - a trend that has only been magnified with the increase in remote workers brought on by the pandemic. That being said, email is effectively a plaintext communication sent from email clients to receiving email servers or from one server to another, leaving the content of messages in transit vulnerable to compromise without additional protection via encryption technology such as the Transport Layer Security (TLS) standard.

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Complete Guide to Installing Security Updates in Debian & Ubuntu

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Whether you are a DevSecOps engineer responsible for managing your organization’s application infrastructure or you have your own personal Linux server that you use at home, the importance of keeping your systems safe and secure against malicious attacks by bad actors cannot be over emphasized.

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Open Source Utilization in Email Security Demystified

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Open Source is currently being recognized by more organizations than ever before for its ability to give rise to flexible, cost-effective and exceptionally secure software and technologies. Over 75% of organizations worldwide are now contributing to and consuming open-source software and products.

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Secure Linux Hosting for Businesses

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Linux prevails as the most popular OS among hosting providers - and for good reason. Linux is secure by design, cost-efficient, compatible with the majority of key programming languages used worldwide and offers high levels of customization. 

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What Is Threat Intelligence?

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Thank you to Oyelakin Timilehin Valentina and Duane Dunston for contributing this article. Threat intelligence (or threat intell) is information used to understand past, present, and future threats targeting an organization. It is evidence-based knowledge about a previous, existing or emerging threat to organizational assets. Threat intelligence also includes settings, implications, mechanisms, context, and even action-oriented advice on the threat. Context mentioned here includes who the attackers are, what their motivation is, what their capabilities are, and what indicators of compromise are in your system. An Indicator of compromise (IOC) is forensic data in a system log file, for example, which identifies malicious activities on a system or network.

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Biden's New Executive Cybersecurity Order Highlights the Power of Open-Source Security

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On Wednesday, May 12th, in the wake of the recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that shut down one of the largest US pipelines for nearly a week, President Biden signed an executive order placing strict new standards on the cybersecurity of all software sold to the federal government. This order is part of a broad, multi-layered initiative to improve national security by incentivizing private companies to practice better cybersecurity or risk being locked out of federal contracts. 

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21Nails: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Exim Mail Server - Patch Now!

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The Qualys Research Team has discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in the popular Exim mail server, which they have named 21Nails. Some of these flaws can be chained together to obtain full remote unauthenticated code execution and gain root privileges. With 60 percent of the world’s public email servers worldwide running on Exim, this set of flaws represents a serious threat to many organizations.

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Protect Your WordPress Sites with CrowdSec

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The CrowdSec team is expanding the capabilities of their open-source and free security solution by finalizing the release of its brand new application bouncer on the WordPress marketplace. This new bouncer is compatible for versions 1.0.x and beyond. Given that the vast majority of websites in the world are hosted on WordPress, this addition will improve CrowdSec's defense arsenal in its mission to defend the greatest number. 

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Can Linux Be Used To Offer More Security In A WFH World (On And Offline)?

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Operational security at least seemed so much easier back when traditional 9-to-5 office life was still dominant. Talk of professionals taking their work home with them was largely metaphorical, with only occasional instances of C-suite types dragging their laptops everywhere they went. Business hardware and systems would be shielded through physical security and isolated networks. One office (or office complex), one place to guard: entirely straightforward.

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