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AlmaLinux 9.4 Reinforces Robust Linux Security

The recent release of AlmaLinux 9.4, closely aligned with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.4, presents Linux admins and infosec professionals with an enhanced open-source enterprise Linux solution. AlmaLinux 9.4 is built directly from RHEL's open-so...
May 07, 2024
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Linux Mint 22 Will Bring XApp Independence, Improved Security, and Compatibility

The upcoming release of Linux Mint 22 will introduce si...
May 06, 2024
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run0, A Safer Alternative to sudo, Introduced in Systemd v256

German software engineer Lennart Poettering recent...
May 04, 2024
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20 Linux Server Hardening Security Tips

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Securing your Linux server is important to protect your data, intellectual property, and time, from the hands of crackers (hackers). The system administrator is responsible for security Linux box. In this first part of a Linux server security series, I will provide 20 hardening tips for default installation of Linux system.

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Six Ways to Botch Your Backups

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Many of us were shocked last week that a company as prominent as Danger, Inc. could make such a rookie mistake by losing the data of T-Mobile's Sidekick customers. As a system administrator, if there is one thing you absolutely have to get right, it's backups. Here are six ways to botch them.

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Security Awareness, According to Google Trends

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A wildly unscientific and faintly humorous look at what Google tells us about web searchers' relative (dis)interest in security topics. Google has a nifty tool called Google Trends. It allows you to plug in two or three phrases and see which one is used more often in web searches. Thought I'd check in on current topics and see the degree to which security is fitting into the discussion online.

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Certified Ethical Hacker: Not Your Everyday Job

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The term "hacker" doesn't just apply to crooks, thieves and anyone else looking to subvert computer security systems for malevolent purposes. Some hackers are in the business of improving security. Certified Ethical Hackers are paid by companies and government agencies to test their computer systems against the sort of attacks the bad guys often attempt to pull off.

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htop & mytop - Interactive Activity Monitors

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htop and mytop are programs similar to the standard top, but monitor in different ways and different functions. htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. Tested with Linux 2.4 and 2.6. Read on for info on mytop, an interactive monitor for MySQL.

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Researchers who hack the Mac OS

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Before his coffee was cold he had found a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X Tiger, which could allow people to elevate from normal user to full super user, and had written code that could exploit the hole.

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Researchers prove kernel is secure

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Australian researchers have demonstrated a way to prove core software for mission-critical systems is safe. The researchers this week said they can prove mathematically that code they have developed, designed to govern the safety and security of systems in aircraft and motor vehicles, is free of many classes of error.

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Holes closed in Subversion version control system

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New versions of the Subversion version management system fix vulnerabilities in the client and server which could allow an attacker to gain control of a system. The cause of the problems are multiple heap overflows in the libsvn_delta library, which may occur when the library is parsing difference data streams (binary deltas).

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Taking FOSS Security Seriously

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Developers of open source software projects should be just as concerned about security as anyone developing a proprietary app. However, the nature of the two development processes can be very different at times, and debate still rages about which is inherently more secure -- a secret code kept by a company, or a public one that all eyes can see. Just as important is how each community reacts once a problem is spotted.

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Open-source project aims to makes secure DNS easier

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Very cool. It would be really nice to see a review of this project, and follow it as it progresses. Is anyone interested in reviewing it and letting us know how you make out?A group of developers has released open-source software that gives administrators a hand in making the Internet's addressing system less vulnerable to hackers.

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