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…
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 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…
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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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 […]
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…
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 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…
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…
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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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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PuTTY’s security flaw (CVE2024-31497) in ECDSA P521 keys risks private data exposure. Urgent update is needed.
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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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A week after finding a malicious backdoor, GitHub has safely restored access to the XZ Utils repo for developers worldwide.
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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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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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Canonical launches Ubuntu Pro for Devices subscription for IoT deployments, bringing security and long-term compliance for up to 10 years.
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Until last November’s release of AlmaLinux 9.3, you wouldn’t see AlmaLinux issuing a security patch to fix any hole that remains unpatched in RHEL, just as you would be unlikely to see Rocky Linux — another RHEL clone — issuing a patch for its distro until after Red Hat had fixed the same vulnerability in […]
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AlmaLinux can now develop and apply security patches and bug fixes ahead of RHEL, because it no longer seeks to be a line-by-line exact copy of Red Hat’s operating system.
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