LinuxSecurity Contributor - Alex
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Top 7 Remote Access Apps For Linux
21 March 2018
A common misconception among Linux users is that it is near impossible to remote into your Linux PC
Host Security
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FBI: we don’t want a backdoor; we just want you to break encryption
13 March 2018
“We’re not looking for a ‘back door'” that breaks encryption, the FBI said on Wednesday. Don
Government
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How Creative DDOS Attacks Still Slip Past Defenses
12 March 2018
Distributed denial of service attacks, in which hackers use a targeted hose of junk traffic to overw
Intrusion Detection
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6 Questions to Ask Your Cloud Provider Right Now
06 March 2018
The cloud is fairly new territory for many organizations and, consequently, it’s an area where mis
Network Security
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5 Linux Tools to Help Recover Data from Corrupted Drives
02 March 2018
Did your screen just turn black or your laptop freeze without warning? Maybe your hard drive has sta
Host Security
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Memcached servers can be hijacked for massive DDoS attacks
01 March 2018
A flaw in the implementation of the UDP protocol for Memcached servers can allow anyone to launch a
Intrusion Detection
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Github Open Sources a Tool That Will Teach Students to Code
14 March 2017
Software engineers can share, shape and work jointly on code through Github. It is also a nice wa
Organizations/Events
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CISA data-sharing bill passes Senate with no privacy protections
14 March 2017
A controversial draft law, which one senator called a "surveillance bill by another name," has pa
Government
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New DDoS attack uses smartphone browsers to flood site with 4.5bn requests
14 March 2017
Researchers suspect a mobile advertising network has been used to point hundreds of thousands of
Intrusion Detection