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If your desktop of choice is Linux, you don't have to be without a 2FA tool, thanks to OTPClient.
For security reasons, you might need to create a Linux user without the ability to log in. Jack Wallen shows you how.
According to Jim O'Gorman, Chief Content and Strategy officer at Offensive Security and leader of the Kali team, Kali users generally fall into two buckets: highly informed, experienced professionals/hobbyist and individuals that are new to Linux in general. "As a whole, I think it's fair to say that we build and design Kali for security professionals and hobbyists to utilize as a base platform for their work. These are individuals that could easily roll their own version of Linux for their needs, but if Kali is done right, it's a no-brainer to use it and save the work and effort that would go into building your own," he told Help Net Security.
If your desktop of choice is Linux, you don't have to be without a 2FA tool, thanks to OTPClient. What about those looking for an open source GUI 2FA tool for the Linux desktop? If that's you, there's OTPClient.
For security reasons, you might need to create a Linux user without the ability to log in. As a Linux system administrator, there are times when you might need to create a user who doesn't have the ability to log in.
TCP source ports only need to be unique for each outbound connection, so most programmers simply let the operating system choose a port number for them, known in the jargon as an ephemeral port. Most of the time it won't, because the crooks use source port numbers below 10000, while conventional software and most modern operating systems stick to source port numbers of 32768 and above.
Hey, Linux fans! Microsoft has got your back over fileless threats. A fileless attack tends to hit via a software vulnerability, inject a stinky payload into an otherwise fragrant system process and then lurk in memory.
OpenSMTPD has been found vulnerable to yet another critical vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to take complete control over email servers running BSD or Linux operating systems. OpenSMTPD, also known as OpenBSD SMTP Server, is an open-source implementation of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol to deliver messages on a local machine or to relay them to other SMTP servers.
Almost within a year after releasing Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection for macOS computers, Microsoft today announced a public preview of its antivirus software for various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS and Debian. If this news hasn't gotten you excited yet.... Microsoft is also planning to soon release Defender ATP anti-malware apps for smartphones and other devices running Google's Android and Apple's iOS mobile operating systems.
Almost within a year after releasing Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection for macOS computers, Microsoft today announced a public preview of its antivirus software for various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS and Debian. If this news hasn't gotten you excited yet.... Microsoft is also planning to soon release Defender ATP anti-malware apps for smartphones and other devices running Google's Android and Apple's iOS mobile operating systems.