Linux Today - Security

Datamation: Mozilla is out with the Firefox 21 open source browser release today, fixing at least 8 security vulnerabilities, three of which are rated as being critical.

Help Net Security: In 2012, the average number of serious vulnerabilities per website continued to decline, going from 79 in 2011 down to 56 in 2012.

TechRepublic: Last week I had one of those real eye-opening moments where it finally dawned on me just why Windows can be so insecure.

FOSS Force: U.S. News & World Report was the first to announce this afternoon that the Senate will evidently not vote on the cybersecurity bill known as the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act or CISPA.

InternetNews: From the 'Multi-tenant VM Security' files

Virtually Hyper: It’s trusted and I feel so much safer.

Tecmint: The Google Authenticator is an open-source module that includes implementations of one-time passcodes (TOTP) verification token developed by Google.

 Linux Drops: If you are logging iptables logs, using afterglow to visualize them can be fun.

 tecmint: pam_tally2 module is used to lock user accounts after certain number of failed ssh login attempts made to the system.

 Linuxaria: Fail2ban is an intrusion prevention framework written in the Python programming language

eSecurity Planet: Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report identifies financially motivated cybercrime as being the top breach of 2012, but don't underestimate China.

eSecurity Planet: OpenStack Security Group makes progress securing the open source cloud platform, but lots of work remains.