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IPFire developer Peter Müller announced today the general availability of IPFire 2.27 Core Update 172 as the latest stable release of this open-source hardened Linux firewall distribution for routers and firewalls bringing updates to VPN cryptography and updated components.
Thursday the Kudelski Group's cybersecurity division released "a tool for Linux that allows creation of multiple hidden volumes on a storage device in such a way that it is very difficult, even under forensic inspection, to prove the existence of such volumes."
The fall version of systemd is here, with support for increased boot security, including tightened full-disk encryption.
The critical security vulnerability turned out to be two serious vulnerabilities. Still, they need patching ASAP.
Building your own initial RAMdisk? That's insecure!
The OpenSSL Project team has announced that, on November 1, 2022, they will release OpenSSL version 3.0.7, which will fix a critical vulnerability in the popular open-source cryptographic library (but does not affect OpenSSL versions before 3.0).
The random number generator "RNG" and crypto subsystem pull requests have already been submitted for the Linux 6.1 merge window.
WireGuard and OpenVPN keep you safe online, but which is best?
Hearing "open-source", "PSP", and "security" all together got me excited with my initial reaction thinking it was about AMD's Platform Security Processor (PSP) albeit that's not the case here. Google's PSP is the "PSP Security Protocol" and is designed for dealing with cryptographic hardware offloading at data center scale and used by Google already in production.
Lots of people “run Linux” without really knowing or caring – many home routers, navigational aids, webcams and other IoT devices are based on it; the majority of the world’s mobile phones run a Linux-derived variant called Android; and many, if not most, of the ready-to-go cloud services out there rely on Linux to host your content.
