Linux Today - Security

HowToForge: Tripwire is a free and open source Intrusion Detection System (IDS).

Tecmint: Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a security mechanism for mandatory access control (MAC) implemented in the Linux kernel.

This tutorial will show you how to install and secure a Nginx web server on Debian 9 with a TLS certificate issued for free by the Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority.

An eWEEK-moderated panel of container security vendors at the DockerCon EU conference discussed what users need to know and how the vendors differentiate themselves from each other.

MakeTechEasier: Do you know that your Home directory in your Linux system contains a lot of hidden files and folders?

 Linux users spend a lot of time using SSH commands to log into and control remote systems.

Based on the latest FreeBSD 11.1 operating system, the pfSense 2.4 release comes with an all-new installer based on bsdinstall and featuring support for the ZFS file system

softpedia: OpenBSD 6.2 is here to introduce a large number of enhancements, among which we can mention better support for various ARM board

After being in development for the past several months, the Q4OS 2 series of the Debian-based OS has been finally materialized as version 2.4, dubbed "Scorpion"

eWEEK: New open-source effort backed by Google, IBM, Red Hat and others, launches to provide auditing and governance for the container software supply chain.

eSecurityPlanet: Apache HTTPD 2.4.28 is now available, fixing a vulnerability that could have potentially enabled information disclosure.

opensource.com: Employ these strategies to secure different layers of the container solution stack and different stages of the container lifecycle.

This guide shows you how to you how to setup an OpenVPN server and get your phone connected in 10 minutes.

There is a view that because open source software is subject to review by many eyes, all the bugs will be ironed out of it.

If you need to manage firewalls (or any application, for that matter) cleanly on more than a few servers, configuration management is usually your best bet.

Every week new security tools are being invented.

Google researchers have discovered seven serious vulnerabilities in Dnsmasq

A group of Virginia Tech researchers has analyzed hundreds of posts on Stack Overflow, a popular developer forum/Q&A site, and found that many of the developers who offer answers do not appear to understand the security implications of coding options

ZDnet: Linux server administrators will want to patch their systems as soon as possible.

With all the hype around containers and orchestrators it can be easy to lose sight of some of their highly useful features.

Tecmint: In this article, we will explain how to audit a given process using autrace utility, where we'll analyze a process by tracing the system calls a process makes.

Linuxconfig: If you're connected to a VPN, you need a killswitch.

eWEEK: Third major release of Kubernetes in 2017 debuts, finally providing stable support for a critical security feature.

 What do frozen peas and software have in common?

eSecurityPlanet: Months after Broadpwn bug, another set of highly critical cross-operating system Wi-Fi flaws has been patched.

Linux.com: Whether you need an antivirus or anti-malware scanner or a tool to hunt for rootkits, Linux has you covered.