Tag Archives: Linux

Kali Linux: A complete infosec distro

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BackTrack has always been the most popular choice when it comes to choose a security purpose distro. The offensive security open source distro gained a lot of popularity and was rolled till version 5 with frequent changes to the variants. … Continue reading

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Linux Foundation warns of a possible security breach

A week before, the home of Linux, kernel.org had confirmed of a security breach. And today, a week later the Linux Foundation has mailed users of the linux.com and linuxFoundation.org sites informing them that they discovered a security breach on … Continue reading

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Security breach at kernel.org

Seems organizations around the globe hasn’t learned lessons from Sony and other major organizations that were hacked in the past. And the result, the home of Linux kernel.org got hacked. It is one of the main distribution site for the … Continue reading

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Backdoor found in Vsftpd source code

Vsftpd is FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. It is said to be secured and extremely fast. Chris Evans (scary_beast) confirmed that version 2.3.4 of the vsftpd was compromised and a backdoor was added to the source code. Chris … Continue reading

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BackTrack 5 Released!

BackTrack is one of the most famous GNU/Linux distribution used by security professionals around the globe.  The project is funded by Offensive security, a security training and certification organization. It is distributed as a live DVD aimed to assist on … Continue reading

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USB autorun attacks against Linux

Linux have always been preferred over Windows when it comes to security. Linux operating systems are believed to be more secure than Windows based. But this post will make your perception false! Security expert Jon Larimer from IBM’s X-Force team … Continue reading

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Security breach in Fedora infrastructure- No damage Done

Fedora is an open source operating system based on Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. The Fedora Project’s mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as … Continue reading

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