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…
Read MoreOpenSSH 9.8 enhances security, fixing critical race conditions in sshd and logic errors in ssh. Here’s more on that!
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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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Read MoreIf 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&#…
Read MoreAlthough 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….
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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 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…
Read MoreOracle 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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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 […]
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MorePassword 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 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…
Read MoreIf 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…
Read MoreA 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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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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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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Read MorePuTTY’s security flaw (CVE2024-31497) in ECDSA P521 keys risks private data exposure. Urgent update is needed.
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