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Modern datacenters and next-generation IT requirements depend on capable platforms, with open source solutions offering a strong foundation for open hybrid cloud and enterprise workloads. A powerful, unified platform enables enterprises to use a solid foundation to balance demand while utilizing new trends and technologies such as virtual machines and the open hybrid cloud.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 24, 2014

How Secure is Your Security Badge?

Security conferences are a great place to learn about the latest hacking tricks, tools and exploits, but they also remind us of important stuff that was shown to be hackable in previous years yet never really got fixed. Perhaps the best example of this at last week

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 17, 2014

A Convicted Hacker and an Internet Icon Join Forces to Thwart NSA Spying

The internet is littered with burgeoning email encryption schemes aimed at thwarting NSA spying. Many of them are focused on solving the usability issues that have plagued complicated encryption schemes like PGP for years. But a new project called Dark Mail plans to go further: to hide your metadata.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 23, 2014

EFF wants hackers to help build an open, secure router

DIGITAL RIGHTS GROUP the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking hackers to help it with its plans to build a secure but open router.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 22, 2014

KernelCare: New no-reboot Linux patching system

On a well-maintained Linux system, months can go by without needing to reboot. Sooner or later, however, a security patch to the Linux kernel will require you to reboot your machine. That's not a real problem on a desktop, but when you're talking hundreds of servers it can be a real pain. That's where CloudLinux's new program KernelCare comes in.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 07, 2014

Why the media loves to exaggerate Linux security problems

There have been a lot of media reports about Linux security problems recently. ZDNet has taken a stand and pointed out that the problem isn't with Linux, the problem is with certain Linux users and administrators. I'd also argue that the problem is also with certain media outlets who jump on the "linux security stinks!" bandwagon at the earliest opportunity.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 25, 2014

UK's security branch says Ubuntu most secure end-user OS

I've been preaching the gospel of Linux security for decades now, but it's always nice to see proof-positive from an independent organization that Linux is indeed the most secure operating system around.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 25, 2014

Time to drop unnecessary admin privileges

A new study shows that CSOs could dramatically lower the risk of malware infection by becoming a lot stingier with the number of company employees given administrator accounts on computers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 20, 2014

Out in the Open: Hacker Vows to Instantly Analyze Your Big Data

These days, Hadoop is everywhere. It began as an esoteric data-crunching platform used by vanguard web companies like Yahoo, Facebook, and Twitter, and now, less than a decade later, it

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 10, 2014

Former NSA employee looks to make email more secure

It wasn't designed with security in mind. It was just designed to work. But following disclosures of large-scale spying by the U.S. as well as other nations over the last several years, a variety of companies, including Wickr and Silent Circle, see commercial opportunities in making encrypted messaging products that are easier to use.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 03, 2014

Should you switch to a supersecure operating system?

Qubes, a Linux OS, uses Xen to spawn multiple domains and promises to reduce risk with some extra effort. For most of us, the effort would be better spent elsewhere

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 08, 2014

Why security benefits boost mid-market adoption of virtualization

While virtualization has undoubtedly already found its footing in larger businesses and data centers, the technology is still in the process of catching on in the middle market. But a recent study conducted by a group of Cisco Partner Firms, titled "Virtualization on the Rise," indicates just that: the prevalence of virtualization is continuing to expand and has so far proven to be a success for many small- and medium-sized businesses.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 27, 2013

Why Hasn't Open Source Taken Over Storage?

Open source products have very uneven penetration into the world of business technology. If you look at content management systems or languages, open source rules. But if you look at the market for ERP software or for storage systems, open source hasn

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 01, 2013

Take the Exclusive Tour of GitHub

The first thing you see upon arrival at GitHub's brand new San Francisco headquarters is Ryan Tomayko's Macbook Pro. This beat-up old laptop is where Tomayko, one of the company's first engineers, created the "pull request" -- the all-important way of contributing software code (and all sorts of other stuff) to projects housed on the company's web service, a contraption that has redefined the way the world builds things.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 27, 2013

How To Avoid Getting Your DNS Hacked Like The New York Times

When the New York Times

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 29, 2013

Meet the Next Open-Source Stars

The world of open-source software, by design, is something of a collective. Instead of well-defined teams of developers working on a project for pay, open-source software is the result of an amorphous community making contributions

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 02, 2013

The top ten most common database security vulnerabilities

Digital warfare and worldwide cyberattack rates are on the rise, and protection on corporate networks is even more crucial.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 27, 2013

WordPress hardened with XSS, DoS and SSRF fixes

With the second security and maintenance release of WordPress 3.5, the developers of the popular open source blogging software have closed 12 bugs, seven of them security issues. In their announcement, the developers "strongly encourage" all users to update all their installations of the software to version 3.5.2 immediately.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 24, 2013

Can You Completely Secure Linux?

How does Red Hat go about building and developing a secure Linux operating system? That question was asked and answered at the Red Hat Summit this week by Josh Bressers, who heads the Red Hat Product Security Team.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 17, 2013

Create secure remote backups using Duplicity

Remote backup is an increasingly popular way to protect your files, and Duplicity makes it easy to implement a secure yet flexible backup system

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 03, 2013

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