Thank you for reading our Linux Security Week newsletter! In this weekly newsletter, we strive to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the week's most relevant open source security news. We want to provide you with the type of content you are interested in, and would love to hear your thoughts on this week's articles.
Today’s newsletter highlights our two most recent feature articles: Introducing Crowdsec: A Modernized, Collaborative Massively Multiplayer Firewall for Linux and Member Profile: My Expedition Through nmap Lab How to get through the NMAP room in Tryhackme. We also examine various topics including the dangerous new cryptocurrency-mining WatchDog botnet targeting both Linux and Windows servers and a severe, persistent security issue and user privacy concern observed in cheap security cameras and baby monitors. Happy Monday - and happy reading!
Yours in Open Source,
LinuxSecurity.com Feature Extras:
Introducing Crowdsec: A Modernized, Collaborative Massively Multiplayer Firewall for Linux - CrowdSec is a massively multiplayer firewall designed to protect Linux servers, services, containers, or virtual machines exposed on the Internet with a server-side agent. It was inspired by Fail2Ban and aims to be a modernized, collaborative version of that intrusion-prevention tool.
Member Profile: My Expedition Through nmap Lab How to get through the NMAP room in Tryhackme - Thank you to Oyelakin Timilehin Valentina for contributing this article. Our newest member Valentina, a Nigerian cybersecurity professional, recently went through the Tryhackme online learning platform, and shares her experiences, as well as a few quick tips on using nmap.
Windows and Linux servers targeted by new WatchDog botnet for almost two years (Feb 18) | ||
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Microsoft Azure and Canonical Ubuntu Linux have a user privacy problem (Feb 16) | ||
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5 Best free to use Linux Server distributions for 2021 (Feb 17) | ||
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Linux 5.11 is out with AMD and Intel improvements (and Linus Torvalds is happy) (Feb 16) | ||
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Linux Foundation offers free Node.js class (Feb 19) | ||
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Should You Block Connections to Your Network From Foreign Countries? (Feb 15) | ||
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Here’s why you should be wary of installing anything that sets SELinux to permissive (Feb 15) | ||
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How To Login With A USB Flash Drive Instead Of A Password On Linux Using pam_usb (Fork) (Feb 17) | ||
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How to install PHP 8 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server (Feb 19) | ||
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Use WPScan to scan WordPress for vulnerabilities on Kali (Feb 18) | ||
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To infinity and beyond: Linux and open-source goes to Mars (Feb 22) | ||
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Cheap baby monitors and security cameras – widespread flaw allows remote viewing (Feb 22) | ||
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