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Vast majority of organizations are still vulnerable to Heartbleed

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According to research from Venafi, a vast majority of the world's top businesses are still vulnerable to Heartbleed, which was disclosed a year ago this month. The OpenSSL flaw impacted organizations both large and small, but the latest figures show that 74-percent of the Global 2000 remain vulnerable.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 08, 2015

OpenSSL Patch to Plug Severe Security Holes

The world is about to get another reminder about just how much of the Internet runs on technology maintained by a handful of coders working on a shoestring budget. OpenSSL

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 19, 2015

Clinton's Homebrew E-Mail Server: Risky or Genius?

No, it's not always a room filled with wires and glowing blue lights. It's probably not even the size of your furnace. The personal email server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton during her time as secretary of state was probably about the size of your office desktop computer and could have been tucked quietly in a corner somewhere.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 09, 2015

No, Lizard Squad Was Not Responsible For Facebook Outage

Contrary to suggestions hacker group Lizard Squad took out Facebook, there was almost certainly no attack on the social network and its photo sharing property Instagram, which both went down late last night. According to a source with knowledge of the matter, the downtime was the result of a technical foul up. Facebook is now confirming this in statements to media.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 27, 2015

Lavabit founder wants to make

Ladar Levison is probably most well-known to Ars readers as the founder of the secure e-mail service Lavabit, which he shut down in mid-2013 in an effort to avoid being forced to comply with a US government demand to turn over users

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 06, 2015

The Dismal State of Embedded Device Security

On Friday, the firm Allegro Software of Boxborough, Massachusetts, released an odd-sounding statement encouraging all its customers to

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 23, 2014

Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Backdoor?

A backdoor has multiple meanings. It can refer to a legitimate point of access embedded in a system or software program for remote administration.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 11, 2014

CloudFlare Rolls Out Free SSL

In a move that will essentially double the number of SSL-protected sites on the Web in the space of 24 hours, CloudFlare on Monday said that it was enabling SSL for all of its more than two million customers for free.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 30, 2014

Performance and security in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Modern datacenters and next-generation IT requirements depend on capable platforms, with open source solutions offering a strong foundation for open hybrid cloud and enterprise workloads. A powerful, unified platform enables enterprises to use a solid foundation to balance demand while utilizing new trends and technologies such as virtual machines and the open hybrid cloud.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 24, 2014

How Secure is Your Security Badge?

Security conferences are a great place to learn about the latest hacking tricks, tools and exploits, but they also remind us of important stuff that was shown to be hackable in previous years yet never really got fixed. Perhaps the best example of this at last week

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 17, 2014

A Convicted Hacker and an Internet Icon Join Forces to Thwart NSA Spying

The internet is littered with burgeoning email encryption schemes aimed at thwarting NSA spying. Many of them are focused on solving the usability issues that have plagued complicated encryption schemes like PGP for years. But a new project called Dark Mail plans to go further: to hide your metadata.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 23, 2014

EFF wants hackers to help build an open, secure router

DIGITAL RIGHTS GROUP the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking hackers to help it with its plans to build a secure but open router.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 22, 2014

KernelCare: New no-reboot Linux patching system

On a well-maintained Linux system, months can go by without needing to reboot. Sooner or later, however, a security patch to the Linux kernel will require you to reboot your machine. That's not a real problem on a desktop, but when you're talking hundreds of servers it can be a real pain. That's where CloudLinux's new program KernelCare comes in.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 07, 2014

Why the media loves to exaggerate Linux security problems

There have been a lot of media reports about Linux security problems recently. ZDNet has taken a stand and pointed out that the problem isn't with Linux, the problem is with certain Linux users and administrators. I'd also argue that the problem is also with certain media outlets who jump on the "linux security stinks!" bandwagon at the earliest opportunity.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 25, 2014

UK's security branch says Ubuntu most secure end-user OS

I've been preaching the gospel of Linux security for decades now, but it's always nice to see proof-positive from an independent organization that Linux is indeed the most secure operating system around.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 25, 2014

Time to drop unnecessary admin privileges

A new study shows that CSOs could dramatically lower the risk of malware infection by becoming a lot stingier with the number of company employees given administrator accounts on computers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 20, 2014

Out in the Open: Hacker Vows to Instantly Analyze Your Big Data

These days, Hadoop is everywhere. It began as an esoteric data-crunching platform used by vanguard web companies like Yahoo, Facebook, and Twitter, and now, less than a decade later, it

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 10, 2014

Former NSA employee looks to make email more secure

It wasn't designed with security in mind. It was just designed to work. But following disclosures of large-scale spying by the U.S. as well as other nations over the last several years, a variety of companies, including Wickr and Silent Circle, see commercial opportunities in making encrypted messaging products that are easier to use.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 03, 2014

Should you switch to a supersecure operating system?

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

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 08, 2014

Why security benefits boost mid-market adoption of virtualization

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.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 27, 2013

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Magnet Goblin Hackers Exploit One-Day Flaws to Deploy Custom Linux Malware

New Bifrost Malware Evades Detection, Threatens Linux Server Security

Cryptocurrency Mining Migo Malware Attacks Linux Redis Servers