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The Web Application Security New Top 10 Risks

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With a focus on risks, rather than only ranking software vulnerabilities, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has made a significant - and welcomed - change in how the organization rates Web application security weaknesses.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 16, 2009

11 Open Source Companies to Watch

Open source companies worth watching focus on cloud computing, security, collaboration and more.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 10, 2009

Hackers descend on Sydney's GooglePlex for mashup jam

Google Australia plans to incorporate data released by the Government 2.0 Taskforce as part of an 'open access' initiative into its Google Maps platform.Taskforce member and director of engineering at Google Australia Alan Noble told iTnews that the web giant was "going to look at all of the data sets" released by federal and state governments "to see which of those can be used."

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2009

Best free Online backup sites

Do you want to back up your data ? I can help you with that. If you have some important data in your computer like documents, photos, music and videos etc.. you should back up these data regularly to avoid data loss due to hardware failure and system failure.. External storage device is an option to back up your data but you will have to spend some money for that. I can suggest some good free alternatives to that.. even if you have external drive you should back up your data at some online secure site so you can assess your data anywhere.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2009

Researchers Create Hypervisor-Based Tool For Blocking Rootkits

Researchers at North Carolina State University and Microsoft Research have come up with a way to combat rootkits by using the machine's own hardware-based memory protection: the so-called HookSafe tool basically protects the operating system kernel from rootkits.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 04, 2009

20 Linux Server Hardening Security Tips

Securing your Linux server is important to protect your data, intellectual property, and time, from the hands of crackers (hackers). The system administrator is responsible for security Linux box. In this first part of a Linux server security series, I will provide 20 hardening tips for default installation of Linux system.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 30, 2009

Six Ways to Botch Your Backups

Many of us were shocked last week that a company as prominent as Danger, Inc. could make such a rookie mistake by losing the data of T-Mobile's Sidekick customers. As a system administrator, if there is one thing you absolutely have to get right, it's backups. Here are six ways to botch them.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 29, 2009

Asset scanning with nmap and ndiff

If you are in a small business or a larger enterprise you know you need to keep track of all those machines. Sure you could easily tag and record them as they go from the box to the desk, but that doesn

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 27, 2009

Security Awareness, According to Google Trends

A wildly unscientific and faintly humorous look at what Google tells us about web searchers' relative (dis)interest in security topics. Google has a nifty tool called Google Trends. It allows you to plug in two or three phrases and see which one is used more often in web searches. Thought I'd check in on current topics and see the degree to which security is fitting into the discussion online.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 20, 2009

GNU/Linux Security: Ubuntu has been Cracked!

Gene may not have taken the best approach to attracting our attention, but what do you think about his ideas on the future of GNU/Linux and security? Okay, I admit I created that title just to get your attention. It worked, you

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 19, 2009

Wikileaks plans to make the Web a leakier place

Wikileaks.org, the online clearinghouse for leaked documents, is working on a plan to make the Web leakier by enabling newspapers, human rights organizations, criminal investigators and others to embed an "upload a disclosure to me via Wikileaks" form onto their Web sites.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 09, 2009

Certified Ethical Hacker: Not Your Everyday Job

The term "hacker" doesn't just apply to crooks, thieves and anyone else looking to subvert computer security systems for malevolent purposes. Some hackers are in the business of improving security. Certified Ethical Hackers are paid by companies and government agencies to test their computer systems against the sort of attacks the bad guys often attempt to pull off.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 08, 2009

Where Defense in Depth Falls Short

For IT security practitioners, hearing about defense in depth can conjure up images of clutter. Here to cut through that clutter, point out the shortcomings and offer a better way is CSO columnist Ariel Silverstone.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 06, 2009

Open source code quality improving

The quality and security levels of open source code are continuing to improve, according to the latest annual audit by code analysis tools vendor Coverity.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2009

Researchers overwhelming vendors with security flaws

Booming numbers of security researchers are uncovering so many flaws that vendors are finding it almost impossible to patch them all in a reasonable timeframe, the latest SANS report has found.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 22, 2009

htop & mytop - Interactive Activity Monitors

htop and mytop are programs similar to the standard top, but monitor in different ways and different functions. htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. Tested with Linux 2.4 and 2.6. Read on for info on mytop, an interactive monitor for MySQL.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 17, 2009

Swiss coder publicises government spy Trojan

A software engineer who created Trojans for the Swiss authorities to intercept Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone calls has published the source code to his programs in order to draw attention to the surveillance threat posed by such software.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 28, 2009

Researchers who hack the Mac OS

Before his coffee was cold he had found a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X Tiger, which could allow people to elevate from normal user to full super user, and had written code that could exploit the hole.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 27, 2009

11 Vital Tips and Hacks to Protect Your WordPress Admin Area

As we continued to emphasize the security of your WordPress admin panel due to the recent attack on our site, we have compiled a fully detailed article that will highlight some of the must have security measures for your WordPress Admin Area.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 18, 2009

Researchers prove kernel is secure

Australian researchers have demonstrated a way to prove core software for mission-critical systems is safe. The researchers this week said they can prove mathematically that code they have developed, designed to govern the safety and security of systems in aircraft and motor vehicles, is free of many classes of error.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 17, 2009

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