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Researchers customize Android for sophisticated smartphone lockdown

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Virginia Tech researchers for the past month and a half have been working to customize Google

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 21, 2011

Virtualization Security Checklist

What's the most dangerous threat to your virtualized systems? Hint: it's not the latest zero-day exploit. The most pressing risk is IT staff who have full privileges in these systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 21, 2011

Hackers Share Attack Techniques, Beginner Tutorials on Online Forum

Imperva researchers analyzed the activities of a large hacker forum for a year and found that members are discussing distributed denial of service attacks and providing tutorials.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2011

Former Hacker Pablos Holman

He was once one of the world's top hackers, but now Pablos Holman is using his powers for good. He was in town for Chicago Ideas Week and joined us with some tips for protecting yourself online.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 14, 2011

The Best System Monitor for Linux

Linux has a few different options for monitoring your system's resources, but our favorite is definitely the lightweight, super-configurable Conky, which sits right on your desktop.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 11, 2011

Four ways to improve security on your WordPress site

In recent months, the web world was hit with a code exploit that affected many users across various web development platforms, from custom systems to Drupal and WordPress.org. This hack exploited a security vulnerability in the popular TimThumb image resizing PHP script, which allowed the hacker full access to any website running the older version of this script.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 07, 2011

Kernel Developers Share Security Tips

As most folks know by now, a security breach affecting kernel.org was discovered in September. While that didn't affect kernel sources, it did get Linux kernel developers to thinking about their personal system security--and it might not be a bad idea for others to do the same.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 05, 2011

How to lock down Linux

Any operating system can be cracked if you don

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 04, 2011

The Air Force's secure Linux distribution

Linux has long had a close, working relationship with governments, but Lightweight Portable Security (LPS) is the first official U.S. Linux distribution.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 03, 2011

Security Bugs in Google Chrome Extensions (And How To Avoid Them)

We reviewed 100 Chrome extensions and found that 27 of the 100 extensions leak all of their privileges to a web or WiFi attacker. Bugs in extensions put users at risk by leaking private information (like passwords and history) to web and WiFi attackers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2011

When Is A Web Hacker Good For My Business?

When you ask for it. A new trend in business is to enhance ones sense of security for their website and/or confidential business data. An emerging trend to ensure your website, business server or database is secure is to hire a professional hacker and have them target you for an evaluation. Sounds crazy!

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 28, 2011

Hacker High School

Teens often explore the world by tinkering with it. How can you channel that impulse and turn it into real engineering? Send them to Hacker High School.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 21, 2011

Defending Against the Apache Killer

Apache, the open-source Web server, is the most popular Web server on the planet. It's also as safe as safe can be. Well, usually it is. An old, unfixed security hole has come back to haunt the Apache webmasters in the form of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack tool: Apache Killer.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 29, 2011

Linux Hardening - Quick Wins

The best way to ensure that your Linux server is secure is to build it from scratch with a minimum amount of code that can be exploited by a hacker -- a custom compiled kernel and the bare minimum of packages needed for the server to do its intended job.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 22, 2011

Not an option: time for companies to embrace security by default

In this op-ed, a cybersecurity researcher argues that major companies are leaving customers at risk by not enforcing security by default. The opinions expressed here do not necessarily represent the opinions of Ars Technica.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 18, 2011

Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed

By 1992, federal agents were closing in on Kevin Mitnick, the FBI's most-wanted hacker. But he already knew this; he was watching them.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 17, 2011

Linux Distros: When It Absolutely, Positively Has to Be Secure

Security minded Linux users have options if they want to lock their systems down extra-tight. They can jump to a close Linux relative like OpenBSD. If they know what they're doing, they can set ultra-secure configuration options. Or they can choose from a few freely available Linux distros that make security a top

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 12, 2011

Wi-Fi, Phone Hacking Plane is Terrifying, Inspiring

There are some people for whom being told that something is impossible is all the motivation they need. That seems to be the case for Richard Perkins and Mike Tassey, who were told that an in-flight hacking platform was impossible. In response, the pair plan on showing off their off their Wi-Fi hacking, phone-snooping, home-made UAV at the Black Hat and Defcon hackerfests in Las Vegas. They call their creation the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform, or WASP.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 04, 2011

WASP: The Linux-powered flying spy drone that cracks Wi-Fi & GSM networks

The Black Hat Security Conference and DEFCON bring together the world

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 29, 2011

DoD Debuts a Brand-New Linux for Telecommuters

With all the hundreds of Linux distributions already available for practically every niche and purpose, users of the open source operating system are accustomed to having a wealth of choices. Recently, however, the set of options got even bigger thanks to a brand-new, security-focused Linux distribution from none other than the U.S. Department of Defense.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 28, 2011

Security Projects - Page 25

Strengthen Your Linux Software Development Pipeline with Code Security Scanners

Linux Security Modules (LSM): SELinux vs AppArmor vs TOMOYO

OpenSSL's New Governance Structure: A Beacon of Progress for Open-Source Security