Security

Wolfi takes a novel approach focused on the rapid adoption of containerized and cloud-native workloads. One important principle of its design is prioritizing update speed over stability.

Ubuntu Pro subscriptions are free for personal use, and you can extend long-term support for your OS by an additional five years. With this extended support, you'll receive security and bug fixes without needing to perform a manual OS upgrade.

Better collaboration between public and private sectors to advance open-source security is a major unresolved technology concern, especially as open-source software gains global dominance alongside artificial intelligence technology.

There are many VPN protocols available, each with its pros and cons. In this guide, you'll learn how to establish a secure connection using OpenVPN on Ubuntu.

In this guide, we’ll cover some basic steps to take in the wake of a hack, including isolating your server from the network and making a copy of drives so you can have professionals investigate the nature and extent of the breach.

This installment will start by fleshing out how systemd-resolved routes queries. From there, I will outline how to configure DNS on a per-link basis. To close, I will reflect on why it’s so difficult to get simple, consistent, and actionable information on this subject.

Fortunately, there are straightforward measures you can adopt to verify the security of a Linux server.  The following are steps to help ensure your server's integrity remains intact.

Our topic today is configuring desktop Linux DNS settings. It’s simple in principle and can yield privacy, security, and availability benefits. Yet despite how straightforward it is in theory and historically was in practice, customizing your device’s DNS is no longer an intuitive matter.

There is little doubt among experts in the field that 2024 will primarily focus on better hardening open-source software in general. With its growing dominance in software development, enterprises can no longer afford to overlook open source, as it is everywhere.

Employees in nearly three out of four organizations worldwide are using generative AI tools frequently or occasionally, but despite the security threats posed by unchecked use of the apps, employers don't seem to know what to do about it.

A key concern with Looney Tunables is the buffer overflow it triggers in the dynamic loader's handling of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. It leads to full root privileges on major Linux distributions.

TuxCare technical evangelist Joao Correia highlights the perils of delayed system patching in Linux environments, offering vital advice to prevent ransomware attacks and data breaches.

A Reddit user with the handle 'Educational-Map-8145' published a proof-of-concept exploit last week for a zero-day flaw in the Linux client of Atlas VPN. The exploit code works against the latest version of the client, 1.0.3.

Exploring the landscape of Linux desktop security, Jonathan Terrasi delves into the vulnerabilities of IoT devices, the focus on Linux servers for attacks, and why Linux remains a more secure albeit less popular operating system.