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Your 3 Favorite Linux Commands?

2008-07-25 14:02:41 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
Heres a fun Friday post Some of you may know Ive been preparing to brush up on my *nix skills. A couple of our new solutions are running on Linux platforms and I feel compelled to understand any platform Im working with inside and out I know, its a bit OCD But to be honest, I havent really touched a Linux platform for about 10 years, since I was...
 
Tags: favorite linux commands, daily, linux platform, daily arsenal, platform, fun friday post, evil admin, mixed caps, sun network
 
 
 
 
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Passes 1000 Vulnerabilities

2007-10-16 17:23:36 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
A few weeks after my July OS Vulnerability Scorecard posting, I was amused to see a posting about it on truthhhappens.redhatmagazine.com (click to see the post). I can't even do it justice by paraphrasing, so here is the text A Microsoft vulnerability report suggests that Microsoft wasnt able to fix more Windows flaws than the number of open...
 
Tags: red hat, fixed, software flaws fixed, red hat truth, team fixed, microsoft, security vulnerabilities, team, minor bugs
 
 
 
 
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Attack against Linux Apache servers intensifying

2008-01-22 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
A mass attack ongoing for the past month against Linux Apache Web servers has become increasingly successful because its break-in method makes use of an automated password and installation process, according to a security researcher monitoring its progress
 
Tags: mass attack, past month, increasingly successful, installation process, break-in method, security researcher, progress, password
 
 
 
 
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Me at Linux.conf.au

2008-02-08 10:51:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Last week I gave the keynote talk at Linux.conf.au. Here's an article on my talk, here's the video in OGG and SPX , and here's a Q&A I did afterwards
 
Tags: talk, keynote talk, conf, linux, video, week, article, ogg, spx
 
 
 
 
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Linux generals command Windows grunts in botnet battlefield

2008-02-26 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Malware discovered six years ago is still using Linux servers to command huge Windows botnets with a mutating virus
 
Tags: linux servers, malware, virus, ago
 
 
 
 
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Hackers vs. Windows, Mac, Linux next week in big-money contest

2008-03-19 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Which operating system is more vulnerable -- Windows Vista, Mac OS X or Linux? Hackers will try to find out next week at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver. At stake is $10,000
 
Tags: windows vista, security conference, week, linux, mac, hackers, system, stake, vancouver
 
 
 
 
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Hacker Super Bowl pits Mac OS vs. Linux, Vista

2008-03-27 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
It's the most anticipated matchup in the hacker world: Linux versus Mac OS X versus Vista. Who will get hacked first
 
Tags: linux versus mac, hacker world, versus vista, matchup
 
 
 
 
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With Vista breached, Linux unbeaten in hacking contest

2008-03-29 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference
 
Tags: tiny fujitsu laptop, conference, conference organizers, sony vaio, three-way computer, linux, vista, challenge friday, macbook air
 
 
 
 
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Linux ignored, not immune, says hacker contest sponsor

2008-04-01 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Don't read anything into the fact that of the three laptops set up for last week's "PWN to OWN" hack challenge, the only one left standing was running Linux. There wasn't enough interest in Ubuntu, compared with the Windows and Mac operating systems, a contest organizer said
 
Tags: hack challenge, linux, laptops set, windows, pwn, week, ubuntu, organizer, systems