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The Dual Edge of Open Source: Examining Key Benefits and Security Challenges

Open-source software (OSS) adoption has increased dramatically over recent years due to its flexibility and cost-cutting benefits, but whether or not OSS is completely safe is often controversial. Due to its open and collaborative nature, this t...
Dec 04, 2024
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Understanding Open Source: Benefits and Security Challenges of OSS

Open-source software (OSS) adoption has increased ...
Dec 04, 2024
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Enhance Your Business Agility and Security with Low-Code Platforms

What if your team could build an app in days, not month...
Dec 03, 2024
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EnGarde GDSN Subscription Price Reduction

EnGarde GDSN Subscription Price Reduction

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Guardian Digital, the world's premier open source security company, announced today that they will be reducing the annual subscription cost of the Guardian Digital Secure Network for EnGarde Community users from $229 to $60 for a limited time.

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R00ting The Hacker

R00ting The Hacker

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Dan Verton, the author of The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers is a former intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps who currently writes for Computerworld and CNN.com, covering national cyber-security issues and critical infrastructure protection.

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Fun Things To Do With Your Honeypot

Fun Things To Do With Your Honeypot

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Most of the papers deal with the potential gains a honeypot can give you, and the proper way to monitor a honeypot. Not very many of them deal with the honeypots themselves.

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Intrusion Detection Systems: An Introduction

Intrusion Detection Systems: An Introduction

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Intrusion Detection is the process and methodology of inspecting data for malicious, inaccurate or anomalous activity. At the most basic levels there are two forms of Intrusion Detection Systems that you will encounter: Host and Network based.

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Days of the Honeynet: Attacks, Tools, Incidents

Days of the Honeynet: Attacks, Tools, Incidents

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Among other benefits, running a honeynet makes one acutely aware about "what is going on" out there. While placing a network IDS outside one's firewall might also provide a similar flood of alerts, a honeypot provides a unique prospective on what will be going on when a related server is compromised used by the intruders.

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Remote Syslog with MySQL and PHP

Remote Syslog with MySQL and PHP

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Msyslog has the ability to log syslog messages to a database. This allows for easier monitoring of multiple servers and the ability to be display and search for syslog messages using PHP or any other programming language that can communicate with the database.

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Patching It Up

Patching It Up

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Patching and upgrading software requires more than running a few commands. Having a patch recovery plan, communicating with developers on that server, and knowing who to contact in case of a botched patch job is critical.

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Newest Members of the Team

Newest Members of the Team

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Just to give everyone an idea about who writes these articles and feature stories that we spend so much of our time reading each day, I have decided to ask Brian Hatch and Duane Dunston, the newest members of the LinuxSecurity.com team, a few questions.

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No A Word In Time

No 'A' Word In Time

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Maintaining accurate time is required for security. Many tools and devices exist to ensure that accurate time is maintained on an organization's system. It makes the job of analysis and system administration much easier to deal with, as well.

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If It Aint Broke See If Its Fixed

If It Ain't Broke See If It's Fixed

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Attackers are still compromising servers with well-known attacks. General awareness can assist the busy administrators and users to protect their systems from these kinds of attacks. SANS provides a list of the Top 20 most common security vulnerabilities, how to identify each, and what can be done to protect against these vulnerabilities.

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Security: Apache (2 of 3)

Security: Apache (2 of 3)

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This is the second installation of a 3 part article on LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP). Apache is the most widely used HTTP-server in the world today.

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Remote Syslogging - A Primer

Remote Syslogging - A Primer

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The syslog daemon is a very versatile tool that should never be overlooked under any circumstances. The facility itself provides a wealth of information regarding the local system that it monitors.

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Designing Shellcode Demystified

Designing Shellcode Demystified

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This paper is about the fundamentals of shellcode design and totally Linux 2.2 on IA-32 specific architectures. The base principles apply to all architectures, whereas the details might obviously not.

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