The Linux Foundation's Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a comprehensive talk this week on the current state and future challenges of Linux kernel security. Speaking at the Open Source Summit (OSS) Japan ...

Sudo is one of the most powerful and dangerous tools in the Unix or Linux system administrator's toolbox. With it, an ordinary user can run commands just as if he or she were the superuser or any ...

The rise of Linux malware: 9 tips for securing the OSS Your email has been sent Linux is the most secure operating system on the market; for years, that has been one of the open source platform’s best ...

With the progressive shift toward a digitally dominated business landscape, cloud computing has become an inevitable part of contemporary enterprises. Though this movement offers countless benefits ...

SSH is a tool I use every single day to log into remote Linux servers and take care of my admin tasks. Without SSH, my days would be more complicated and less secure. That doesn’t mean, however, that ...

Together with the Linux Foundation, Google announced today that they would fund two Linux kernel developers' efforts as full-time maintainers exclusively focused on improving Linux security. "While ...

Most Linux distros support the encryption of swap. When properly setup the Linux kernel will generate a new encryption key for each reboot. So there is no way to decrypt it and recover it after a ...

Google is now paying developers more money to work on securing their Linux kernels this year. The gesture may well be the start of the company’s bid to enforce a tighter grip on open source. Google’s ...

Linux and open-source developers are working to make Linux security tools developed by the National Security Agency more accessible and usable by regular system administrators and application ...

The Linux community joins the rest of us schmucks in the sad security state as news breaks of massively infected Unix servers But before we go there, I need to get this off my chest: Zuck, you ...

Now, I know there are websites out there that can give me general information, but there are bound to be people out there who have had some obscure problems with this same issue.<P>What I want to do ...