Fabio Erculiani has announced the third beta release of Sabayon Linux 3.5: "Sabayon Linux x86/x86-64 3.5 Loop 3 (beta release). Distribution features and changes since beta 2: boot time takes from 15 to 25 seconds less, thanks to Gentoo OpenRC
LinuxSecurity.com: USN-612-3 addressed a weakness in OpenSSL certificate and keys generation in OpenVPN by adding checks for vulnerable certificates and keys to OpenVPN. A regression was introduced in OpenVPN when using TLS and multi-client/server which caused OpenVPN to not start
LinuxSecurity.com: The decision to deploy proprietary, rather than open source security solutions (OSS), is often influenced by some commonly held perceptions.
LinuxSecurity.com: Matt Zimmerman discovered that entries in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys with options (such as "no-port-forwarding" or forced commands) were ignored by the new ssh-vulnkey tool introduced in OpenSSH (see USN-612-2). This could cause some compromised keys not to be listed in ssh-vulnkey's
LinuxSecurity.com: Most of todays tools for fingerprinting are focusing on server-side services. Well-known and widely-accepted implementations of such utilities are available for http web services, smtp mail server, ftp servers and even telnet daemons. Of course, many attack scenarios are
LinuxSecurity.com: Stephen Gran and Mark Hymers discovered that some scripts run by GForge, a collaborative development tool, open files in write mode in a potentially insecure manner. This may be exploited to overwrite arbitary files on the local system.
LinuxSecurity.com: Like many Internet addicts, I have way too many user name/password accounts to remember: accounts on social-networking sites, rarely used logins at work, on-line banking and so on. One solution to this problem is to use the same user
LinuxSecurity.com: I am assuming that you already know how to set up an encrypted file system using cryptsetup with luks (or something else). There are several howtos. I am also assuming that you are familiar with LVM2. This tutorial deals
Hello to all.I have recently compiled the Linux.org 2.6.25 kernel on my Fedora fc6 system on my Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop.Problem is that i cannot create/copy any file/directory with name written...
I recently added a bunch of new users via command line to a Red hat Es4 server. The users added by command line do not show up in the GUI. They do have a listing in /etc/passwd and can function...
I've just installed Slackware 12.1 onto my desktop.Internet connection is through a usb dongle (D-link DWL-122G) which is using the ralink rt73 chipset. Upon restart, the usb dongle is not...
Published at LXer:In another "not quite Windows Live but still cool" post, Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems, is now available in both Silverlight...
When RHEL5 or any linux machine crashes, does it create a dump file and if so, where does it get stored? We are investigating the issue with a messaging server that crashes due to lack of...
Hi After installing VMWARE in my UBUNTU 8.04 machine , I'm getting "Access denied " after the loggin window appears in the https://27.0.0.1:8333/ui/#Any ideas ?
Hi pals! I'm back with a little problem that I hope you can help me solve it. I have a bluetooth usb dongle, and it works well in Windows.The problem is that, when I start suse, with the usb...
I am wondering how long each release is supported with bug-fixes, etc. For example, if I install the 12.1 release on a server how long before that release is no longer supported with security patches...
