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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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How to Encrypt Your Home Folder in Ubuntu 24.04

This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to encrypt your home directory in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. As you may know, the new installer in Ubuntu 24.04 only supports encrypting the entire disk. If you want to dual boot Ubuntu with another OS in single disk, there’s no option so far to encrypt […]

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How to Enable or Disable SELinux Booleans for Apache

The post How to Enable or Disable SELinux Booleans for Apache first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .SELinux, or Security-Enhanced Linux, is a security mechanism for mandatory access control (MAC) implemented in the Linux kernel t…

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20 Best Linux Password Managers in 2024

Password managers are applications created to enable users to keep their passwords in a single place and absolve themselves of the need to remember every single one of their passwords.
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Cloud Active Defense: Open-Source Cloud Protection

Cloud Active Defense is an open-source solution that integrates decoys into cloud infrastructure. It creates a dilemma for attackers: risk attacking and being detected immediately, or avoid the traps and reduce their effectiveness. Anyone, including sm…

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Still On CentOS 6? ELevate Can Now Lift and Shift You to a Modern RHEL Clone

If you’re still running CentOS 6, you know for a fact that you need to get to another operating system pronto. The folks CloudLinux/AlmaLinux know this, and have made changes to their open-source lift-and-shift tool, ELevate, so that you can now easily…

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6 Best Free and Open-Source Web Application Firewalls

A web application firewall (WAF) is a type of application firewall that lets you see and analyze HTTP traffic to and from a web application. It has the objective of preventing attacks that seek to deny service and steal data.
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Clonezilla Live Is Now Patched Against the XZ Backdoor, Powered by Linux 6.7

Steven Shiau released today a new version of his Clonezilla Live system for disk cloning/imaging based on the powerful Clonezilla software, Clonezilla Live 3.1.2-22, which adds a newer kernel and patches the live system against the latest XZ backdoor.

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OpenSSF Warns of Open-Source Social Engineering Threats

Linux dodged a bullet. If the XZ exploit had gone undiscovered for only a few more weeks, millions of Linux systems would have been compromised with a backdoor. We were lucky. But can we stay lucky? The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSF) and the OpenJS Foundation revealed that a similar hacking attempt had targeted several […]

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High-Priority PuTTY Vulnerability Threatens Server Access Security

PuTTY’s security flaw (CVE2024-31497) in ECDSA P521 keys risks private data exposure. Urgent update is needed.
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How to Install Passbolt on Ubuntu 22.04

This tutorial is designed for both tech enthusiasts and IT professionals, offering a straightforward, step-by-step process to install Passbolt CE on your Ubuntu 22.04 system.
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GitHub Restores Access to XZ Utils Repository

A week after finding a malicious backdoor, GitHub has safely restored access to the XZ Utils repo for developers worldwide.
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How to Install Munin Monitoring Tool on Debian 12

Munin is a free and open-source system and network monitoring tool that displays system metrics in graphs through a web browser. This tutorial will show you how to install the Munin monitoring tool on Debian 12.
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How to Enable SSH on Ubuntu (for 20.04, 22.04)

It is possible to enable SSH on Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 in only six steps. Learn how in this tutorial.
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