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Cloud Security

How Cloud-Based Automation Can Keep Business Operations Secure
4 open source cloud security tools
Moving on Up: Ready to Climb to the Cloud?

Cryptography

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has security vulnerabilities that could cause loss of funds
Unlocking the future of blockchain innovation with privacy-preserving technologies
Certificate Giant Slams Plan to Shorten HTTPS Lifespans

Documentation

NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To Help Open-Source Drivers
60 percent of enterprise codebases contain open-source vulnerabilities
Ten Linux commands you can

Firewalls

Raluca Ada Popa: Her computer security method could make firewalls a thing of the past
DNS Firewalls Could Prevent Billions in Losses to Cybercrime
CUJO Smart Firewall vulnerabilities exposed home networks to critical attacks

Government

Russia reportedly breached encrypted FBI comms in 2010
Federal Cybersecurity Agency Prioritizes Addressing Chinese Threats, Improving Election Security
IT Security Pros: Encryption Backdoors Are Election Hacking Risk

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Ex-Amazon employee who hacked Capital One bank used its servers to mine cryptocurrency
Beware: This fake iPhone charging cable can hijack your computer
A New Age in Corporate Accountability for Data Breaches

Host Security

Top 7 Remote Access Apps For Linux
5 Linux Tools to Help Recover Data from Corrupted Drives
Don’t Kill the Password. Change the Password

Intrusion Detection

Lizard Squad member jailed after offering DDoS-for-hire attack service
How Creative DDOS Attacks Still Slip Past Defenses
Memcached DDoS: This 'kill switch' can stop attacks dead in their tracks

Network Security

What is Wireguard? Secure, simple VPN still in development
VPNs' Future: Less Reliant on Users, More Transparent, And Smarter
Foreign spies may be hiding in your VPN, warns DHS

Organizations/Events

Why the founder of Apache is all-in on blockchain
4 takeaways from Black Hat 2019
The best and worst of Black Hat 2019

Privacy

Is $100 million enough to save the web from ads?
Mozilla Private Network VPN gives Firefox another privacy boost
Mozilla pilots its VPN service for Firefox desktop users in the US

SELinux

How come MCS Confinement is not working in SELinux even in enforcing mode?
libselinux is a liar!!!
Stop disabling SELinux!

Security Projects

IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
Kali Linux Ethical Hacking OS Switches to Linux 5.2
New Release: Tor Browser 9.0a6

Security Trends

Talking to machines: Lisp and the origins of AI
How secure are your AI and machine learning projects?
Using Zero Trust and Conditional Access Policies to Reshape Cybersecurity

Security Vulnerabilities

Server-squashing zero-day published for phpMyAdmin tool
Patch now: 1,300 Harbor cloud registries open to attack
Warning: Researcher Drops phpMyAdmin Zero-Day Affecting All Versions

Server Security

Thousands of servers infected with new Lilocked (Lilu) ransomware
Do VPNs Have a Place in Container Security?
NCSC in DNS Warning as Hijackers Focus on Home Routers

Vendors/Products

IBM’s new 53-qubit quantum ‘mainframe’ is live in the cloud
GitHub acquires Semmle to help developers spot security vulnerabilities
Chrome 77 released with no EV indicators, contact picker, permanent Guest Mode

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