The FBI and NSA issue joint security alert containing technical details about new Linux malware developed by Russia’s military hackers. …read more Source:: Linux
Tag: security
The next generation of the Purism Linux laptop is on its way
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•If you want a free software and security first Linux desktop, keep an eye out for Purism’s forthcoming Librem 14 laptop. …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft releases Defender ATP for Linux
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•Yes, you read that headline correctly, Microsoft has just released a security program for Linux. …read more Source:: Linux
Check Point released an open-source fix for common Linux memory corruption security hole
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•For years, there’s been a security problem with how the GNU C Library dealt with single-linked-lists. Now, Check Point has released a patch, which will fix the problem once and …read more Source:: Linux
Securing Linux’s master sysadmin command: Sudo
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•There’s a new release of the open-source Linux command sudo, and it comes with improved auditing, logging, and security. …read more Source:: Linux
Best practices for selecting software composition analysis tools
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•By IT Central Station SCA tools automate the process of identifying and classifying open source code used in a development environment, identifying security, licensing and quality issues. Here’s how to pick a product. …read more Source:: OpenSource
CouchDB 3.0 puts safety first
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Apache CouchDB, the NoSQL database lauded for its speed and querying capacities, but derided for potentially lax default security choices, just rolled out a 3.0 release that …read more Source:: OpenSource
Firefox for Mac and Linux to get a new security sandbox system
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•Firefox’s new RLBox sandbox system to ship to Linux users in Firefox 74 and Mac users in Firefox 75. …read more Source:: Linux
OpenSSH adds support for FIDO/U2F security keys
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•OpenSSH 8.2 adds support for authentication via FIDO/U2F protocols, most commonly used with hardware security keys. …read more Source:: Linux
Nasty Linux, macOS sudo bug found and fixed
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•Who’da thought hiding passwords behind asterisks as you entered the characters could be a security problem? …read more Source:: Linux