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The UK's National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or - brace yourself - Discord. Should your child install Kali Linux, virtual machines or internet privacy tool Tor, West Midlands Police wants to know immediately.
Offensive Security announced a major update to its flagship Penetration Testing with Kali Linux training course. The new course doubles the amount of content available to train students the skills and mindset required to be a successful security professional and prepare for the Offensive Security Certified Professional certification.
Joe Vennix of Apple security has found another significant vulnerability in sudo utility that under a specific configuration could allow low privileged users or malicious programs to execute arbitrary commands with administrative privileges on Linux or macOS systems. Sudo has been designed to let users run apps or commands with the privileges of a different user without switching environments.
Kali Linux 2020.1 released: New tools, Kali NetHunter rootless, and more!Offensive Security have released Kali Linux 2020.1, which is available for immediate download. You can upgrade Windows 7 for free! Why wouldn't you?Windows 7 has been Microsoft's most successful operating system and, it's safe to say, one of the most loved. How industries are evolving their DevOps and security practicesThere's significant variation in DevOps maturation and security integration across the financial services, government, retail, telecom, and technology industries, according to Puppet's report based on nearly 3,000 responses.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new critical vulnerability in the OpenSMTPD email server that could allow remote attackers to take complete control over BSD and many Linux based servers. OpenSMTPD is an open-source implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol that was initially developed as part of the OpenBSD project but now comes pre-installed on many UNIX-based systems.
Is a Linux SSH GUI in your future? Jack Wallen believes once you try Snowflake, there's no going back. 90% of the time I'm using that tool from the Linux platform, where I open a terminal window and SSH into what seems like an endless array of remote servers.
Is a Linux SSH GUI in your future? Jack Wallen believes once you try Snowflake, there's no going back.
Offensive Security have released Kali Linux 2020.1, which is available for immediate download. Kali Linux 2020.1 key new features. The popular open source project, which is heavily relied upon in the pentest community, is introducing several new features, including new packages and tools.
Micro Focus released Micro Focus AD Bridge 2.0, offering IT administrators the ability to extend Active Directory controls from on-premises resources, including Windows and Linux devices to the cloud - a solution not previously offered in the marketplace. With AD Bridge 2.0, organizations can leverage existing infrastructure authentication, security as well as policy, in order to simplify the migration of on-premises Linux Active Directory to the cloud, resulting in fully secured and managed Linux virtual machines in the cloud.
Specializing in cyber and anti-tamper security software for Linux, Star Lab provides embedded security for mission-critical systems, infrastructure, and equipment. Star Lab advances the Wind River strategy for delivering security across the system, from boot to deployment and operations.