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Parrot OS: Security-Focused Linux Distro for Security and Privacy

Parrot Security (ParrotOS, Parrot) is a free and open-source Debian-based Linux distribution that is designed for security experts, developers, and people who care about privacy.
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How to Use Run0 in Linux

Run0 is a powerful privilege escalation app similar to sudo and doas. In this guide, learn how to use Run0 to run as root and make shells in Linux.
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IBM Report: Breach Costs Continue to Rise While Consumers Foot the Bill

One surprises in this years Cost of a Data Breach Report is that generative AI is being successfully used not only to prevent data breaches, but to substantially lower the cost of a breach when one happens.
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How to Encrypt An Existing Ubuntu 24.04 System

This is a step by step tutorial shows how to encrypt Ubuntu, while preserving its data, after you installed it on your computer. While installing Ubuntu 24.04, if you didn’t choose to use the entire disk, then there’s no graphical option to enable encryption. You can however manually encrypt the full Ubuntu system afterward. So, […]

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How to Set Up Wireguard VPN on Linux

Wireguard is a high-performance VPN daemon built into the Linux kernel. Explore the benefits of Wireguard on Linux and set up your VPN today.
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Olympic Games Apps That Collect Data and Sell It on the Marketplace

As Paris attracts crowds sports tourists for the 2024 games, mobile apps marketed to attendees are tracking them, collecting their private data, and then hawking it to advertisers and big tech.
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A Critical Bug in Libwayland Update Causes Plasma Desktop Freeze on Debian Sid/Trixie

A critical bug in libwayland update causes Plasma Desktop freeze at login in Debian Sid/Trixie. The root cause is identified, and the temporary solution is released!
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Run0 vs Sudo: What’s the Difference?

Looking for a privilege escalation tool for your Linux system? Read our comparison of Run0 vs Sudo to find out which one is the best for you.
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26 Security Hardening Tips for Modern Linux Servers

In this post, we’ll explain 25 useful tips and tricks to secure your Linux system. We hope these tips and tricks will help you secure your system.
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Full Disk Encryption Comes to Aeon Desktop: A Boost for Linux Security

The upcoming Release Candidate 3 (RC3) of the Aeon Desktop is set to introduce a comprehensive Full Disk Encryption (FDE) feature.
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Critical Exim Vulnerability Facilitates Malware Delivery (CVE-2024-39929)

The maintainers of the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) have fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-39929) that currently affects around 1.5 million public-facing servers and can help attackers deliver malware to users.
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AlmaLinux Patches Another Security Hole That Red Hat Is Ignoring

AlmaLinux is turning into the RHEL clone with a difference, by patching RHEL security holes that are given a low priority by Red Hat.
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AlmaLinux Patches Another Security Hole That Red Hat Is Ignoring

AlmaLinux is turning into the RHEL clone with a difference, by patching RHEL security holes that are given a low priority by Red Hat.
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BunkerWeb: Open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF)

BunkerWeb is an open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) distributed under the AGPLv3 free license. The solution’s core code is entirely auditable by a third party and the community.
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AlmaLinux 9 Released the OpenSSH Patch for CVE-2024-6409 Vulnerability

Attention, AlmaLinux users! AlmaLinux 9 released a patch for CVE-2024-6409, a new vulnerability found in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) in glibc-based Linux systems.
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Fedora and RHEL Users Alerted to OpenSSH Vulnerability

A new vulnerability, CVE-2024-6409, in OpenSSH versions 8.7 and 8.8 risks remote code execution; Fedora 36/37 and RHEL 9 are affected.
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5 Best Open-Source Firewall Distributions

Here’s our verdict for the best open-source firewall distributions captured in a legendary LinuxLinks chart. All of the software featured in this article is released under an open-source license. Each of the solutions offers a comparable set of feature…

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OpenSSH 9.8 Fixes Critical sshd Vulnerability

OpenSSH 9.8 enhances security, fixing critical race conditions in sshd and logic errors in ssh. Here’s more on that!
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CISA Report Finds Most Open-Source Projects Contain Memory-Unsafe Code

Analysts found that 52% of open-source projects are written in memory-unsafe languages like C and C++. More than half of open-source projects contain code written in a memory-unsafe language, a report from the U.S.’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has found. Memory-unsafe means the code allows for operations that can corrupt memory, leading to vulnerabilities […]

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App Doesn’t Run in Ubuntu 24.04? This AppArmor Update May Fix It

If you’ve been experiencing issues getting some apps to run or work properly in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS it may be down to the distro using AppArmor to restrict the creation of user namespaces. This change (which I touched on in my article look at what&#…

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