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Securing Your Linux Server: Understanding and Mitigating Modern Threats

In this digital age, Linux servers face unprecedented challenges posed by cyber threats. These, in turn, introduce new vulnerabilities that system administrators must address. Traditionally considered a more secure environment compared to other opera...
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Essential Server Security Security Strategies for Administrators

In the current threat landscape, Linux servers have eme...
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Ensuring Linux Server Security: A Comprehensive Guide

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Content Security: Keeping Sites Safe

Content Security: Keeping Sites Safe

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Here's an article that talks about keeping your site safe. It is a discussion of some commercial security products, some of which run on Linux. "Still, there's a more insidious threat that such technologies don't guard against: actions . . .

Develop Your Website Wisely

Develop Your Website Wisely

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"Establishing a Web presence can be crucial to a company's success, but the wrong moves can tarnish your image." This article "... gives tips on how to safely develop and deploy websites and how a comprehensive information technology policy . . .

BIND Version 9 beta 2 released

BIND Version 9 beta 2 released

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This new version of bind (not for production use yet) includes support for IPv6, many security improvements, protocol and operational improvements and especially support for DNSSEC. The quicklist of security improvements include: Support for DNSSEC, Support for TSIG, Auditability . . .

Sendmail Simplifies E-Mail Security

Sendmail Simplifies E-Mail Security

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The provider of the Sendmail Internet Mail platform, which drives most of the Internet's mail servers, last week debuted the Sendmail Secure Switch, routing software that provides server-level encryption for E-mail transmissions. The software automatically encrypts the Simple Mail Transfer . . .

Another Distributed DOS Tool

Another Distributed DOS Tool

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Updated. This is an analysis of the "Shaft" distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool. Denial of service is a technique to deny access to a resource by overloading it, such as packet flooding in the network context. Denial of service . . .

Hackers crack online porn filters

Hackers crack online porn filters

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A company that makes popular software to block children from Internet pornography is suing two computer experts for distributing a method for children to deduce their parents' password and access those forbidden Web sites. . . .

Sendmail, Inc. Introduces Secure Switch

Sendmail, Inc. Introduces Secure Switch

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Secure Switch provides state of the art server-to-server encryption technology so businesses can now safely use the Internet for transmitting sensitive information to partners, suppliers and employees. By automatically encrypting the SMTP connection between trusted servers, end users are freed . . .

Sendmail 8.10 Security Features

Sendmail 8.10 Security Features

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The general link above points to the new features in "the most powerful open source sendmail release ever". This link talks about the new general security features, and this one talks about the new anti-spam features. . . .

Apache 1.3.12 Released

Apache 1.3.12 Released

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The Apache Software Foundation and The Apache Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.12 of the Apache HTTP server. The primary changes in this version of Apache are those related to the ``cross site scripting'' . . .

ITS4 software security scanner

ITS4 software security scanner

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John Viega posted the following message to bugtraq announcing a new security auditing tool. "I've put together a command-line tool for statically scanning C and C++ source code for security vulnerabilities. The tool is . . .

FBI Hacker Caseload Multiplies

FBI Hacker Caseload Multiplies

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The E-Commerce Times writes, "The rash of hacker attacks against Web sites continued this week, directed mainly against e-commerce sites, and the FBI reportedly is now investigating a total of 17 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) intrusions." . . .

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