security

As you may know Deeping is one of the most beautiful Linux distros but there are some doubts about using it among Linux community. What do you think about it? Is it 100% safe to install and use it? Is there any privacy concerns regarding Deepin?

Would love to hear what security tools, apps and programs any of you use to keep your system secure and safe, also any other security measures that you take like sandbox'ing or virtualization, or specific security based distros you like or prefur???? I personally use clamav and clamtk ...

On my raspberry pi4 i was shocked to find that my wifi password was stored in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf in a human readble format! I was surprised it wasn’t encrypted like the system user passwords in the shadow file. Am I missing something here? does anybody know why it’s been...

I request everyone to read full and help me and, sorry for my English. I often got few text files (named as "New Text Document.tmp" / "WindowsUpdate..log", WindowsUpdate-1.tmp" / "0000001.tmp" / "0000001 copy.tmp" / "0000001 copy (2).tmp" ...) in my desktop while using Windows (7 & 10), even...

Otherwise, the scipts could be easily modified by malicious software, such as this one: #!/bin/bash echo -e 'echo -n "[sudo] password for $(whoami): "\nread -s pw\necho I got your password: $pw' > /tmp/hack.sh echo 'alias sudo="bash /tmp/hack.sh"' >> ~/.bashrc If the user executes the...

Hi. In an IT company that contains sysadmins, developers & database admins, how can we limit the sysadmin (root) access on a Linux server. For example: DBAs has special privileges to data bases. But the sysadmin (root) have the access to those files too even without their passwords, that we...

I am needing to find a cost effective security endpoint software. Currently we are using BitDefender, but it gets expensive, and some servers we cant run it on. Here is what we need to be able to run it on: Ubuntu 16-20 (working on getting the 16's updated) Debian Amazon Linux 2 CentOS 7.7.xxx...

First of all, I use linux mint 20.1 ulyssa, but i decided to try out tails os. So i followed instructions here. But when I was live booting from USB stick, I began reading the text it shows, and the first line it said CAUTION: GPT corrupted, using it anyway. Recommend using encrypted drives. or...

HI, I'm using linux mint 20.1, and wanted if using an external password manager like bitWarden is safe? Like, I can just store all my passwords offline, but if I do use BitWarden(or any other password managing tool), will they not also have access to my data? What tools do you guys use for...

Hi, i am newbies on linux and i try to install multiple secure linux operating systems on a usb stick and no one work same debian jesssie. i use a thinkpad laptop and when i try to boot them it make weird bugs or boot in text mode.

Today I got into trouble and I catch this virus https://secure.wphackedhelp.com/blog/remove-wp-vcd-malware-wordpress/ I removed files like in tutorial, scanned with scanners, make firewall, blocked user (from screen) etc and my cpu loads decreased from 100% to 50-80% and thats is still problem...

https://news.softpedia.com/news/debian-linux-was-the-most-vulnerable-operating-system-in-the-last-20-years-529387.shtml https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-isnt-the-most-vulnerable-operating-system-its-actually-linux How someone could choose the most vulnerable operating system for...

I found Howdy a few weeks ago while browsing GitHub (that's what programmers do instead of Twitter). It is supposed to be a Linux alternative to Windows Hello. I installed it on my laptop yesterday in order to try it out. My impressions so far: Easy to use if you are familiar with the terminal...

HiddenWall is a Linux kernel module generator for custom rules with netfilter. (block ports, Hidden mode, rootkit functions etc). The motivation: on bad situation, attacker can put your iptables/ufw to fall... but if you have HiddenWall, the attacker will not find the hidden kernel module that...

Hi all, i am here to share my new open source tool... CodeCat is a open source tool to help you in static code analysis, to find/track sinks and bugs, this points follow regex rules... Current rules for C,C++,GO,Python,javascript,Swift,PHP,Ruby,ASP and Java.(you can create your rules) How...

HiddenWall is a Linux kernel module generator for custom rules with netfilter. (block ports, Hidden mode, rootkit functions etc). The motivation: on bad situation, attacker can put your iptables/ufw to fall... but if you have HiddenWall, the attacker will not find the hidden kernel module that...

Firstly good morning. I am a recent user of ubuntu, it must have been about two months that I use it, anyway, I started a WordPress course and in it we used xampp to not need to buy a direct host, however the problem is that WP cannot create new files, either when I download a new theme or...

Alright, let me give you the context. I am a business owner with strong technical background, say a programmer, though not an advanced system administrator. I've bought a VPS server where I want to host several applications and webpages. One of the apps consists of backend, admin frontend and...

Good day all I am currently working on a project where the goal is to have a second operating system (Kali Linux) encrypted and mountable/unmountable on a Ubuntu system. All work must be kept on the encrypted partition and nothing can be installed or held on the Ubuntu operating system. There...

I want to dislabe SeLinux but this will be temporary where after reboot it should be enabled.