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He was once one of the world's top hackers, but now Pablos Holman is using his powers for good. He was in town for Chicago Ideas Week and joined us with some tips for protecting yourself online.
Linux has a few different options for monitoring your system's resources, but our favorite is definitely the lightweight, super-configurable Conky, which sits right on your desktop.
In recent months, the web world was hit with a code exploit that affected many users across various web development platforms, from custom systems to Drupal and WordPress.org. This hack exploited a security vulnerability in the popular TimThumb image resizing PHP script, which allowed the hacker full access to any website running the older version of this script.
As most folks know by now, a security breach affecting kernel.org was discovered in September. While that didn't affect kernel sources, it did get Linux kernel developers to thinking about their personal system security--and it might not be a bad idea for others to do the same.
Any operating system can be cracked if you don
Linux has long had a close, working relationship with governments, but Lightweight Portable Security (LPS) is the first official U.S. Linux distribution.
We reviewed 100 Chrome extensions and found that 27 of the 100 extensions leak all of their privileges to a web or WiFi attacker. Bugs in extensions put users at risk by leaking private information (like passwords and history) to web and WiFi attackers.
When you ask for it. A new trend in business is to enhance ones sense of security for their website and/or confidential business data. An emerging trend to ensure your website, business server or database is secure is to hire a professional hacker and have them target you for an evaluation. Sounds crazy!
Teens often explore the world by tinkering with it. How can you channel that impulse and turn it into real engineering? Send them to Hacker High School.
Apache, the open-source Web server, is the most popular Web server on the planet. It's also as safe as safe can be. Well, usually it is. An old, unfixed security hole has come back to haunt the Apache webmasters in the form of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack tool: Apache Killer.
The best way to ensure that your Linux server is secure is to build it from scratch with a minimum amount of code that can be exploited by a hacker -- a custom compiled kernel and the bare minimum of packages needed for the server to do its intended job.
In this op-ed, a cybersecurity researcher argues that major companies are leaving customers at risk by not enforcing security by default. The opinions expressed here do not necessarily represent the opinions of Ars Technica.
By 1992, federal agents were closing in on Kevin Mitnick, the FBI's most-wanted hacker. But he already knew this; he was watching them.
Security minded Linux users have options if they want to lock their systems down extra-tight. They can jump to a close Linux relative like OpenBSD. If they know what they're doing, they can set ultra-secure configuration options. Or they can choose from a few freely available Linux distros that make security a top
There are some people for whom being told that something is impossible is all the motivation they need. That seems to be the case for Richard Perkins and Mike Tassey, who were told that an in-flight hacking platform was impossible. In response, the pair plan on showing off their off their Wi-Fi hacking, phone-snooping, home-made UAV at the Black Hat and Defcon hackerfests in Las Vegas. They call their creation the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform, or WASP.
The Black Hat Security Conference and DEFCON bring together the world
With all the hundreds of Linux distributions already available for practically every niche and purpose, users of the open source operating system are accustomed to having a wealth of choices. Recently, however, the set of options got even bigger thanks to a brand-new, security-focused Linux distribution from none other than the U.S. Department of Defense.
The U.S. Department of Defense and the Air Force Research Laboratory have decided to respond and offer up a way to use a PC securely by developing a new lightweight and secure Linux distribution.
The OSSEC team is pleased to announce the general availability of v2.6. This version includes support for IPV6, a new tool for key management of
Later this month I'll be canceling my subscription to a leading security suite that runs on two of my home-office PCs. I'll replace it with Microsoft's free Security Essentials, which I've been using on my notebook since I bought it two years ago. I realized several months ago that I simply no longer needed to spend money for the convenience of an all-in-one security app.
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