Server Security - Page 8

Qubes OS: Enhanced Security Through Fedora and Xen Hypervisor

Qubes, a Linux OS, uses Xen to spawn multiple domains and promises to reduce risk with some extra effort. For most of us, the effort would be better spent elsewhere

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• Jan 08, 2014

Exploring Security's Role in Virtualization Growth for Mid-Market Firms

While virtualization has undoubtedly already found its footing in larger businesses and data centers, the technology is still in the process of catching on in the middle market. But a recent study conducted by a group of Cisco Partner Firms, titled "Virtualization on the Rise," indicates just that: the prevalence of virtualization is continuing to expand and has so far proven to be a success for many small- and medium-sized businesses.

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• Nov 27, 2013

Understanding Open Source Adoption Challenges in Storage Technologies

Open source products have very uneven penetration into the world of business technology. If you look at content management systems or languages, open source rules. But if you look at the market for ERP software or for storage systems, open source hasn

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• Nov 01, 2013

Tour GitHub Headquarters: Legacy Of The First Pull Request Artifact

The first thing you see upon arrival at GitHub's brand new San Francisco headquarters is Ryan Tomayko's Macbook Pro. This beat-up old laptop is where Tomayko, one of the company's first engineers, created the "pull request" -- the all-important way of contributing software code (and all sorts of other stuff) to projects housed on the company's web service, a contraption that has redefined the way the world builds things.

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• Sep 27, 2013

How DNS Attacks Affected The Incident Involving The New York Times

When the New York Times

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• Aug 29, 2013

Introducing The Future Wave Of Open-Source Trailblazers Today

The world of open-source software, by design, is something of a collective. Instead of well-defined teams of developers working on a project for pay, open-source software is the result of an amorphous community making contributions

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• Jul 02, 2013

Top Ten Database Security Attacks and How to Safeguard Data

Digital warfare and worldwide cyberattack rates are on the rise, and protection on corporate networks is even more crucial.

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• Jun 27, 2013

WordPress 3.5.2 Moderate: XSS, DoS, and SSRF Security Fixes

With the second security and maintenance release of WordPress 3.5, the developers of the popular open source blogging software have closed 12 bugs, seven of them security issues. In their announcement, the developers "strongly encourage" all users to update all their installations of the software to version 3.5.2 immediately.

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• Jun 24, 2013

Exploring Red Hat's Approach To Linux Security Management

How does Red Hat go about building and developing a secure Linux operating system? That question was asked and answered at the Red Hat Summit this week by Josh Bressers, who heads the Red Hat Product Security Team.

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• Jun 17, 2013

Creating Secure Remote Backups With Duplicity: A Comprehensive Guide

Remote backup is an increasingly popular way to protect your files, and Duplicity makes it easy to implement a secure yet flexible backup system

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• Jun 03, 2013

Pressure Mounts for Security in Application Development Practices

Security has seldom been a priority in application development, but pressure from businesses stuck patching faulty software is having an impact on the industry.

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• May 20, 2013

Managing Admin Privileges to Enhance Security Practices

We've all known for a long time that unnecessary use of elevated privileges is a bad thing. You shouldn't be logged in as an administrator while surfing the Internet or checking your email; in particular, you shouldn't do that stuff while logged onto a server as an admin. Your organization shouldn't have too many enterprise admins, domain admins, or server admins. We all have that.

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• May 07, 2013

Google, NXP, CrucialTec Join FIDO Alliance for Enhanced Security

The FIDO Alliance, an organisation that aims to develop user-friendly password alternatives, has gainedPDF several new members and supporters this week. Google, NXP and CrucialTec have joined the Alliance's board of directors, taking seats alongside existing "Board Level" members.

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• Apr 26, 2013

Exploring Security Risks Due To Rapid Technological Advancements

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• Mar 21, 2013

DNSSEC: Enhancing Internet Security With Google Public DNS

The Internet's a dangerous place for an innocent Web browser to be searching alone for the right Web page, so the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) was created to make searching safer. That's the good news. The bad news is that DNSSEC adoption has been lagging. Now, Google has announced that it's supporting DNSSEC in its Google Public DNS service.

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• Mar 20, 2013

Linux Kernel Security Issue: Critique by Developer Jonathan Corbet

A senior Linux kernel developer has pointed to an instance of what he calls a lax approach to security in the Linux kernel, citing the case of a serious vulnerability that is now more than a month old and is yet to be fixed.

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• Feb 26, 2013

New PCI SSC Guidelines for PCI-DSS 3.0 Compliance and Security

There is a big different between compliance and security. The PCI-DSS (Payment Council Industry Data Security Standard) is the measure against which e-commerce security is measured and it is now in the process of gearing up for a major update at the end of the year.

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• Feb 04, 2013

Key Security Measures For Your Linux Web Server Configuration

With the significant prevalence of Linux web servers globally, security is often touted as a strength of the platform for such a purpose. However, a Linux based web server is only as secure as its configuration and very often many are quite vulnerable to compromise.

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• Jan 15, 2013

Apple Hires Kristin Paget To Boost Security Initiatives

Apple has tapped a a noted hacker for its security team. Wired reported that the company has hired Kristin Paget, who was part of a small team of hackers who helped lock down Windows Vista for Microsoft before that OS shipped.

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• Dec 07, 2012

Rootkit.Linux.Snakso.a Affects Nginx Web Pages on Linux Server

Rootkit.Linux.Snakso.a is designed to infect the Linux kernel version 2.6.32-5-amd64 and adds an iframe to all served web pages by the infected Linux server via the nginx proxy.

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• Dec 03, 2012