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The 8 Best Wireless Penetration Testing Tools for Linux

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Protecting your wireless networks from infiltrators is critically important in keeing your Linux environment secure! Check out these eight great wireless hacking tools for Linux.

Brittany Day
Sep 20, 2021

Should You Block Connections to Your Network From Foreign Countries?

This LinuxSecurity.com article featured on the frontpage of Slashdot examines the concept of geo filtering and how it could add a valuable layer of security to your firewall, and explores how the Geolocation for nftables project is leveraging Open Source to provide intuitive, customizable geo filtering on Linux.

Brittany Day
Feb 15, 2021

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What Is Penetration Testing and How Does It Improve Network Security?

The best way to improve and guarantee your network’s security is by continuously testing it, looking for flaws to fix. Penetration testing an excellent method of verifying and improving network security. Here's what you need to know about network pentesting.

Brittany Day
Dec 25, 2020

IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Now Supports WPA3 to Make Wi-Fi Safe Again

The IPFire 2.25 Core Update 153 release brings WPA3 support to the hardened open-source firewall Linux distro - making Wi-Fi safe again for IPFire users.

Brittany Day
Dec 24, 2020

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 bypasses the Windows 10 Firewall

The Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will bypass the Windows 10 firewall and any configured rules, raising security concerns for those who use the feature - the main concern being a lack of awareness of this change.

Brittany Day
Oct 02, 2020

WireGuard VPN is a step closer to mainstream adoption

Linux network stack maintainerDavid Millerhascommittedthe WireGuard VPN project into the Linux "net-next" source tree. Miller maintains bothnetandnet-next—the source trees governing the current implementation of the Linux kernel networking stack and the implementation of thenextLinux kernel's networking stack, respectively. Learn more:

Brittany Day
Dec 19, 2019

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The VPN is dying, long live zero trust

The traditional VPN is being replaced by a smarter, safer approach to network security that treats everyone as equally untrusted. Learn more about zero trust and how getting started with a zero-trust security model could improve your business's security posture:

Brittany Day
Dec 17, 2019

Research: 5G Networks Still Vulnerable to Location Tracking, Downgrading Attacks

A group of researchers have found 11 flaws in 5G protocols, several of which would expose a device’s location and when a user calls or sends texts, compromising privacy and security. Learn more in an interesting Security Today article:

Brittany Day
Nov 19, 2019

7 Ways VPNs Can Turn from Ally to Threat

VPNs are critical pieces of the security infrastructure, but they can be vulnerable, hackable, and weaponized against you. Here are seven things to be aware of before you ignore your VPN:

Brittany Day
Sep 21, 2019

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What is Wireguard? Secure, simple VPN still in development

Are you familiar with Wireguard? The Wireguard VPN offers better performance and a simpler, effective approach to cryptography. Learn more in this interesting CSO article:

Brittany Day
Sep 03, 2019

VPNs' Future: Less Reliant on Users, More Transparent, And Smarter

Interested in what the future has in store for VPNs? Virtual private networking is poised to become more automated and intelligent, especially as endpoints associated with cloud services and the IoT need protection. We'd love to hear your thoughts on this article. Market consolidation, transparent operation, greater intelligence: If this were Jeopardy, here's where you'd say, "What's the future of the VPN market look like?" Then you'd be on to Technology Forecasts for $500. What isn't in question is that virtual private networking technology will remain critical to protecting users, organizations, and their data. What is changing, according to industry experts, is the degree of automation and intelligence in VPN technology, not to mention the degree to which VPN functionality resides less in the hands of users (consistently cited as secure networking's weakest link) and more on the back end of the network. But continued growth of cloud services and the Internet of Things (Iot) means secure connectivity will still be needed.

Brittany Day
Jul 24, 2019

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Foreign spies may be hiding in your VPN, warns DHS

Before we get into the latest scary-virtual private network (VPN) news, let’s do as Naked Security’s Paul Ducklin advises and repeat after him:

Brittany Day
May 31, 2019

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TRON critical security flaw could break the entire blockchain

A critical security flaw has been discovered in the TRON network which had the potential to render the ecosystem's blockchain useless.

Brittany Day
May 07, 2019

How a Nigerian ISP Accidentally Hijacked the Internet

On November 12, 2018, a small ISP in Nigeria made a mistake while updating its network infrastructure that highlights a critical flaw in the fabric of the Internet. The mistake effectively brought down Google — one of the largest tech companies in the world — for 74 minutes.

Brittany Day
Apr 25, 2019

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Hotspot finder app blabs 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords

This should come as no surprise, but it still sucks big-time: thousands of people who downloaded a random, very popular app called WiFi Finder found that it got handsy with users’ own home Wi-Fi, uploading their network passwords to a database full of 2 million passwords that was found exposed and unprotected online.

Brittany Day
Apr 23, 2019

Researchers find 36 new security flaws in LTE protocol

A group of academics from South Korea have identified 36 new vulnerabilities in the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard used by thousands of mobile networks and hundreds of millions of users across the world.

Brittany Day
Mar 23, 2019

Holes in 4G and 5G Networks Could Let Hackers Track Your Location

Over the past 18 months, revelations about wireless carriers selling smartphone location data to third parties have forced telecoms to promise reform. Worryingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, these user protections have been slow to actually materialize. Even if carriers shape up, though, an attacker can still track a smartphone's location and snoop on phone calls thanks to newly discovered flaws in 4G and even 5G protocols.

Brittany Day
Feb 27, 2019

FCC Says Gutting ISP Oversight Was Great For Broadband

The FCC this week proclaimed that broadband connectivity saw unprecedented growth last year thanks to agency policies like killing net neutrality. The problem? That doesn’t appear to be true.

Brittany Day
Feb 27, 2019

Over 19,000 Orange modems are leaking WiFi credentials

Over the weekend, a security researcher has discovered that nearly 19,500 Orange Livebox ADSL modems are leaking WiFi credentials.

Brittany Day
Dec 26, 2018

Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used to Be

As you travel this holiday season, bouncing from airport to airplane to hotel, you’ll likely find yourself facing a familiar quandary: Do I really trust this random public Wi-Fi network? As recently as a couple of years ago, the answer was almost certainly a resounding no. But in the year of our lord 2018? Friend, go for it.

Brittany Day
Nov 18, 2018

Network Security - Page 90

I2P 2.5.0 Release Brings Improvements in Tunnels, I2PSnark & More

Canonical Makes Network Management Simpler and More Secure with Netplan 1.0

GTPDOOR Linux Malware Threatens Telecoms, Exploits GPRS Roaming Networks