Thank you for reading our Linux Security Week newsletter! In this weekly newsletter, we strive to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the week's most relevant open source security news. We want to provide you with the type of content you are interested in, and would love to hear your thoughts on this week's articles.
Today’s newsletter highlights our two most recent feature articles: Protect Your WordPress Sites with CrowdSec and Cybersecurity World Mourns Over Security Researcher Dan Kaminsky's Passing. We also examine various topics including the banning of the University of Minnesota from Linux kernel development after researchers tried to slip bad patches into the Linux kernel as a "test", and some excellent alternative free and secure Linux distros to consider as a CentOS replacement. Happy Monday - and happy reading!
Yours in Open Source,
LinuxSecurity.com Feature Extras:
Protect Your WordPress Sites with CrowdSec - The CrowdSec team is expanding the capabilities of their open-source and free security solution by finalizing the release of its brand new application bouncer on the WordPress marketplace.
Cybersecurity World Mourns Over Security Researcher Dan Kaminsky's Passing - On Saturday, April 24th, 2021, the computer security world was shaken by the news of the sudden death of Dan Kaminsky, a renowned hacker best known for his contributions in the realm of DNS security.
Greg Kroah-Hartman bans University of Minnesota from Linux development for deliberately buggy patches (Apr 22) | ||
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Looking for a CentOS Replacement? Start Here (Apr 20) | ||
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Google issues Chrome update patching seven security vulnerabilities (Apr 21) | ||
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Parrot OS Security edition is a Linux desktop distribution geared for security admins (Apr 23) | ||
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Graphical Linux apps are coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux (Apr 23) | ||
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Camera hack peels back layers of embedded Linux (Apr 21) | ||
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Rust support in Linux may be possible by 5.14 release: Torvalds (Apr 19) | ||
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Tails 4.18 Anonymous OS Released with Tor Browser 10.0.16, Updated Intel Firmware (Apr 22) | ||
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How to check if a port is open on remote Linux system (Apr 20) | ||
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6 advanced tcpdump formatting options (Apr 19) | ||
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How open source security flaws pose a threat to organizations (Apr 20) | ||
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