This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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Tag: security
Does static application security testing protect against malware?
This post explores how static application security testing can have an essential role in protecting against malware attacks.
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Linux cybersecurity mistakes businesses commonly make
Here are the most common mistakes users make which can lead to security problems.
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Can You Use Tor on Linux?
Let’s check out what makes Tor different and how you can use it on Linux.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Become Anonymous – Part 18
Improve your privacy with these ways of reducing spying and snooping on your daily life. This article is part of the Linux for Starters series.
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Linux Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know
Linux is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to improve their cybersecurity. Here’s what you can do to improve your cybersecurity.
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Linux at Home: DIY security solutions for the home
Here’s our recommended open source solutions to create your own Linux-based surveillance system. ZoneMinder, Motion, and Kerberos.io are featured.
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Essential System Tools: Firejail – Excellent Security Sandboxing
This article looks at Firejail, a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces, Linux capabilities and seccomp-bpf.
Read moreLKRG – Linux Kernel Runtime Guard
Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) is a loadable kernel module that performs runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel and detection of security vulnerability exploits against the kernel. As controversial as this concept is, LKRG attempts to post-detect and hopefully promptly respond to unauthorized modifications to the running Linux kernel (integrity checking) or to credentials (such as user IDs) of the running processes (exploit detection).
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