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 News: Host Security |
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| June 22, 2000 - Trustix releases XPloy |
| Trondheim, Norway. Trustix AS, the leader in eBusiness Systems Management Solution for Linux, today announced its release of the industry's first truly graphical user interface for Linux operating system administration and management. XPloy from Trustix redefines the standard for Linux system . . . |
| June 20, 2000 - Bastille Linux Review |
| Bastille Linux has taken on the challenge of securing the often infamously crackable Red Hat distribution with an "after market" hardening script. The developers have stated that "the Bastille Hardening System attempts to `harden' or `tighten' the Linux operating system. It . . . |
| June 18, 2000 - Red Hat 2.2.16 RPM Available |
| Several people wrote in to let us know a development 2.2.16 kernel is now available from Red Hat. This link points to a rawhide (development) Red Hat release for the 2.2.16 kernel to fix several security and other problems that . . . |
| June 17, 2000 - Missing hard drives re-emerge at nuclear lab |
| Two computer hard drives containing nuclear secrets that disappeared at the U.S. nuclear laboratory at Los Alamos have resurfaced under questionable circumstances in a secure area within the facility, U.S. officials said today. . . . |
| June 15, 2000 - Linux Kernel Bug prompts Security Alert |
| The perceived security of Linux has suffered a setback after the discovery of a serious bug in the Linux kernel which allows attackers to gain root access through a variety of programs, including Sendmail. The kernel bug affects versions 2.2.15 . . . |
| June 14, 2000 - Techniques to Secure Your Linux System |
| The main security problem with Linux is its constantly running system services and daemons, such as httpd (Apache), inetd, sendmail, and others. In order to secure a system to the greatest extent possible, you must first assess what daemons are vital . . . |
| June 12, 2000 - Open Sources -- Security by Default |
| What would happen if you removed most of the extraneous, unnecessary and insecure protocols from your OS, tightened up the default configuration and then hunted bugs ruthlessly? Something very much like OpenBSD, because that’s precisely what project founder Theo De . . . |
| June 8, 2000 - Delegating superuser tasks with sudo |
| "Instead of just handing out your root password to various users or beginning sys-admins or changing numerous programs as set uid root (to run as root), you can use sudo (which stands for "superuser do") to allow them to run . . . |
| June 7, 2000 - A Capabilities Based Operating System |
| In this article, Kurt Seifried discusses various insecurities that are common in operating systems and the applications that accompany them. "There's been a lot of security advisories in the last few weeks, with some pretty major problems. There were . . . |
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