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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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No Need to Move From CentOS 7 by June 30 If You Have Aftermarket Support

Although Sunday will be the last day that CentOS 7 will be officially supported, you don’t have to move to something else right away. There are plenty of support services you can use to keep your workloads safe and secure until you’re ready to migrate….

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Improve Website Performance – Install Memcached on RHEL 9

The post Improve Website Performance – Install Memcached on RHEL 9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Memcached is an open-source distributed memory object caching program that allows us to improve and speed up the performance…

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How to Install Fail2ban to Stop Brute-Force Attacks on Ubuntu 24.04

The post How to Install Fail2ban to Stop Brute-Force Attacks on Ubuntu 24.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Fail2ban is a powerful Python-based security tool that helps protect Linux systems from brute-force attacks by blo…

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Linux Mint Will Hide Unverified Flatpaks in Software Manager

The Software Manager app in Linux Mint 22 will deliver faster start-up times and introduce a significant security safeguard for search results. As you may know (and if you don’t, what’s living on Mars like? ;P), the Linux Mint Software Mana…

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How to Disable Avahi-Daemon in Linux

The post How to Disable Avahi-Daemon in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Avahi-daemon is a service running on Linux systems that provides network service discovery using mDNS (Multicast DNS) and DNS-SD (DNS
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Ebury Botnet Compromises 400,000+ Linux Servers

Ebury has been deployed as a backdoor to compromise almost 400,000 Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD servers; more than 100,000 were still compromised as of late 2023. In many cases, Ebury operators could gain full access to large servers of ISPs and well-kn…

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Oracle Linux 9.4 Released, Here’s What’s New

Oracle Linux 9.4 offers the latest programming tools and strict security measures to ensure enterprise stability. Here’s more on that.
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