Linux Today - Security

ostechnix: 4 methods to remove the password from a PDF document in Linux.

eWEEK: Docker releases a new major update of its flagship Enterprise Edition, for the first time providing full commercial Kubernetes support.

 fosspost: In order to be able to receive updates for firmware available in your computer, fwupd sends a list of some hardware devices you have to the platform on fwupd.org

Linuxize: Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol used for secure connection between a client and a server and supports various authentication mechanisms.

opensource.com: Strong security requires a more proactive strategy.

eSecurityPlanet: There are hundreds of ways to spend your time at the 2018 RSA Conference, but here are the 10 sessions that people will be talking about.

Continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous delivery: Why you need all three for Agile success

eWEEK: The W3C web standards organization is now working with the FIDO Alliance to enable a new era of strong authentication with the WebAuthn effort.

ostechnix: Bootiso is a BASH script to safely create bootable USB drives in Linux.

eWEEK: More than a year after first emerging from stealth, container security startup Capsule8 launches the 1.0 version of its zero-day threat detection platform.

BleepingComputer: Named OpenSnitch, the Linux port works on the same principles of the macOS version, being a host-based firewall

Linux Journal: The obvious parts of that Matrix are maintained by Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Amazon and so on.

Restic is a fast, efficient, free and open source backup application that secures your data with AES-256 encryption.

softpedia: The new kernel update addresses a total of 39 security vulnerabilities for the long-term supported Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

eWEEK: Aqua Security brings enhanced policy and compliance capabilities to its container security platform.

Currently, Fedora uses several ways to ensure that packages from the Fedora repositories are delivered to you securely.

Kernel.org: The Linux Foundation IT team has been working to improve the code integrity of git repositories hosted at kernel.org by promoting the use of PGP-signed git tags and commits.

A web application firewall (WAF) is a type of application firewall that lets you see and analyze HTTP traffic to and from a web application.

As more companies adopt cloud technologies and containerization, security must be tightly integrated throughout the entire infrastructure.

Chances are you aren't encrypting DNS over TLS yet, and that you aren't validating DNSSEC signatures

LinuxJournal: When working with AWS, it's common to have a number of separate accounts run by different teams for different projects.

The New Stack: Etcd, a key-value store and a core component of Kubernetes clusters, is used to store highly sensitive configuration data but is also easily left unprotected, as a developer recently found.

IPFire was designed for users new to firewalling, so it places a premium on user-friendliness.

QuickFixLinux: How to Generate SSL SAN Cert and update in the Apache config file in Linux machines.

itprotoday: GoScanSSH malware infects a range of Linux devices by seeking weak SSH login passwords and takes pains to not infect devices connected to government networks.

Even smart admins can make bad decisions.

SquidGuard is a free and open-source application, which is basically used as a URL redirector

 EnterprisersProject: Organizations worry too much about some aspects of public cloud security  - and too little about others.

Mozilla launched a new Firefox add-on Facebook container that makes tracking harder by isolating your Facebook identity from the rest of web activities.

Ioncube loader is a PHP module to load files that were protected with the Ioncube Encoder software.

eWEEK: A decade after the last SSL/TLS web encryption standard was released, the IETF has finally settled on the 28th draft of the TLS 1.3 standard to be the next major protocol for internet security.