Linux Today - Security

Nmap was released 19 years ago on September 1.

What's new in Tails 2.6 RC1?

Nixcraft: Learn how to use Let's Encrypt to install a free SSL certificate for Nginx web server along with how to properly deploy Diffie-Hellman on your nginx server to get SSL labs A+ score.

eWEEK: The alleged attacker behind the 2011 breach of kernel.org is arrested as details on the actual attack now emerge.

The Bridge Authority is a simple but essential piece of the Tor Network.

eSecurityPlanet: The CTO of the Linux Foundation discusses how the governance structure for the Core Infrastructure Initiative is changing to promote better security.

softpedia: Tor 0.2.8.7 comes exactly twenty days after the release of Tor 0.2.8.6 to address an important issue that has been recently discovered in the ReachableAddresses option.

ostechnix: A simple and easiest way to hide files inside images in Linux.

How can I force users to choose the secure password that will prevent users from using stupid passwords?

Linux.com: The web is not secure.

bsdly: we found a campaign where our OpenBSD greylisting setup was 100% effective in stopping the miscreants' messages

Learn how to install the strongSwan IPsec VPN on Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS)

ModSecurity is a Web Application Firewall: a program that can be used to inspect information as it passes through your web server,

VIDEO: Nicko van Someren, CTO of the Linux Foundation, discusses how the CII is moving forward to make open-source software more secure.

"Secure by design" doesn't mean that Linux users should take a carefree approach to security.

 HowToForge: This guide explains how to password-protect web directories (with users from a MySQL database) with mod_authn_dbd on Apache2 on a Debian 8 (Jessie) server.

eWEEK: The Linux Foundation's new online Linux security training program will cover a broad range of topics, from application security to network security.

Firewalld provides a way to configure dynamic firewall rules in Linux that can be applied instantly, without the need of firewall restart and also it support D-BUS and zone concepts which makes configuration easy.

GNU Privacy Guard (also called GPG or GnuPG) is an implementation of the OpenGP standard that allows you to encrypt/decrypt and sign data communications.

If your network administrator has blocked (using a proxy or firewall) any outgoing ssh connection (port 22) and you can't pull, clone, push, from a remote repository you can fix it by using the https protocol.

In this article, we will share some interesting Linux tips and tricks to generate random passwords and also how to encrypt and decrypt passwords with or without slat method.

What started as an attempt to secure TCP/IP in Linux ended up enabling an attack vector that can be used to break, or even hijack, Internet connections between Linux and Android systems.

FirewallD is the Dynamic Firewall Manager of Linux systems.

eWEEK: Four flaws reported by Check Point aren't the most serious Qualcomm Android flaws reported this year

A brief introduction to how Linux containers are designed and image signing.

softpedia: Claws Mail 3.14.0 is now available as the latest and most advanced version, bringing support for securing passwords for your email accounts by using a Master Passphrase.

eWEEK: The early indication is that the flaw was not exploited and no Fedora accounts or information was altered because of it.

Guide through the possible steps to secure your private information online.

eWEEK: DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge pitted machine against machine in an effort to find the best in autonomous computer security. In the end, Mayhem was the big winner.

VIDEO: How do you build an app that is secure enough for a hacker conference?