Linux Today - Security

Launched just a few days ago, Karmbian is a Kali Linux based distribution optimized for ARM devices.

Developers from several popular GNU/Linux distributions coordinated the release of updates for the GRUB2 bootloader, which is used in almost all distros to allow users to patch their systems against no less than eight security vulnerabilities.

Previously available for macOS and iOS, IBM's Fully Homomorphic Encryption toolkit is now available on Linux too.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 promises to be yet another hefty update to the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 operating system series, improving IT security and compliance with new security profiles, updating the developer tools, and adding new Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles to enforce remote work strategies.

Progressing in my journey as a beginner hacker, I decided to share some useful tools in Instagram OSINT.

Learn how to use the Shred command to overwrite and securely delete files in Linux so they cannot be easily recovered.

IPFire 2.25 Core Update 147 includes a recent version of the Squid web proxy software that was patched against HTTP Request Smuggling and Poisoning attacks (CVE-2020-15049).

How to limit user file upload size in Nginx to prevent some types of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks and many other related issues.

Data has been used to monitor usage on Gmail’s competitors, sources claim.

Omarine 7.0 implements a new security policy to enhance the overall security of the operating system and make it easier to use SELinux.

A look into the Vulnerability service on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems to assess and monitor the status of security vulnerabilities.

Is your home router leaving your network vulnerable to attack? New research suggests that this worrisome scenario is more likely than you may have thought.

As a Linux user, you can opt either to allow or restrict network access to some services or IP addresses using the firewalld firewall which is native to CentOS/RHEL 8 and most RHEL based distributions such as Fedora.

Linux servers are at greater risk than ever. Here are our top tips for optimizing the security of your Linux system in this ever-evolving threat environment.

 Claws Mail 3.17.6 is here to implement a new Phishing warning that will prompt users whenever they copy a phishing URL, in addition to clicking a phishing URL.

To be on the safe side, the use of SSH passwordless authentication is highly encouraged.

The most important security issue fixed in this new Linux kernel update was discovered in the SELinux network label handling implementation by Matthew Sheets.