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Network Security Toolkit distribution aids network security administrators

07/24/2008  
Relevance: 5.91
Network Security Toolkit is one of many live CD Linux distributions focusing on network monitoring, analysis, and security. NST was designed to give network security administrators easy access to a comprehensive set of open source network applications, many of which are among the top 100 security tools recommended by insecure.org.
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Talking security with Red Hat's Mark Cox

05/10/2007  
Relevance: 5.77
IT professionals spend a lot of time thinking about security, and ways to make sure their systems are patched as quickly as possible. However, what goes on before they hear about a vulnerability is mostly a mystery. To get a clearer picture, we talked to Mark Cox, director of Red Hat's security response team, about trends in Linux security, who discovers vulnerabilities, how they're rated, and what's being done to minimize security problems.
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Why Do We Need Specialist Security Distros?

02/27/2008  
Relevance: 5.73
Many popular distributions, community-oriented and otherwise, take security very seriously. They have dedicated security teams that go over individual packages before they're rolled into a final release. To make sure you don't have any loose ends, these distributions and many other individual Open Source projects also publish an endless stream of security advisories and updates. Add to this security mechanisms like SELinux, AppArmor, and the upcoming TOMOYO Linux, and SMACK, and you know they mean business. So what room does this leave for specialist security distros?
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Interview with Linux security expert Kurt Seifried

12/07/2006  
Relevance: 5.51
Linux.com readers might know Kurt Seifried as the author of the Linux Administrators' Security Guide or proprietor of the popular security mailing list. In this interview, he gives his views on how security in Linux has been stacking up and where it's lacking, what users can do to secure their systems, and whether every admin needs to know much about security.
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Review: BackTrack 2 security live CD

04/25/2007  
Relevance: 5.47
BackTrack is a live CD Linux distribution that focuses on penetration testing. A merger of two older security-related distros -- Whax and Auditor Security Collection -- BackTrack bundles more than 300 security tools.
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Linux Security Modules Sans Modules

10/21/2007  
Relevance: 5.47
In a brief follow up to the earlier pluggable security discussion, Thomas Fricaccia reflected on the implications for the various security frameworks,"I noticed James Morris' proposal to eliminate the LSM in favor of ordaining SELinux as THE security framework forever and amen, followed by the definitive decision by Linus that LSM would remain."
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IBM developerWorks Opens Linux Security Spaces

09/18/2007  
Relevance: 5.46
Linux Security Spaces is are micro-site focused on aLinux Security issues and development activity of interest to the Linux Security community. You can easily turn the Linux Security spaces into a Google Gadget, Netvibes module, or a Widget for your iGoogle page. Learn about Linux Security best practices including: Auditing, intrusion detection systems, firewalls, virus scanners, LAMP Security, network among other topics and Linux security tools; NMap, Snort, Chkrootkit, Rootkit Hunter, TripWire, Wireshark, SELenux and AppArmor. The community leader is Mayank Sharma, a contributing editor at SourceForge, Inc.
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Security? That's Obscure!

08/24/2008  
Relevance: 5.40
Is it me? or has information security completely changed? Give you a bit of a background - I live, breathe, eat and sleep computer security. I'm not one of those"masturbating monkeys" as Linus puts it. But that's not what this rant is about.
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Deploy Customized Security Plug-Ins in DB2 9

10/24/2006  
Relevance: 5.37
Security plug-ins bring new versatility to your database security setup in IBM DB2 9. Read this article to determine what should be tested beforedeploying your own customized security plug-ins. Accompanying this article, there is a security plug-in loader program for AIX 64 bit, Linux AMD 64 bit, Linux AMD 32 bit, Linux IA 32 bit, and Sun Solaris 64 bit operating system platforms.
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Google launches security group for open source

05/07/2008  
Relevance: 5.29
Google is spearheading a volunteer workforce it hopes will become the centralized authority for responding to security issues in open source software. oCERT, short for the open source computer emergency response team, will aim to remediate security vulnerabilities and exploits in a wide range of open source programs by coordinating communication among publishers. According to Google's security blog, the group"will strive to contact software authors with all security reports and aid in debugging and patching, especially in cases where the author, or the reporter, doesn't have a background in security."
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