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Top 5 Tips to Improve Your Linux Desktop Security 2017

Galido

Having Linux as your operating system is one of the better decisions you can make concerning your computer’s security. Having this OS on your desktop allows you to relax a little bit when it comes to many forms of security breaches, which would probably inflict serious damage to less security-oriented systems.

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Using Secure Configurations | Standardize Your Security

Linux Academy

This included installing operating system updates, NTP servers, DNS servers, static IPs, audit log options, anti-virus, etc. Ansible can help automate the backup, and you can learn more in this month’s how-to video that covers using Ansible to back up a Cisco ASA firewall.

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Vulnerability Scanning – Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

Keep in mind, vulnerabilities are not only within server operating systems and applications, but on network devices, IoT devices, workstations, printers, and every other computing device you have. For internal vulnerability scanning, you can set up an OpenVAS server running on Linux. Oh yes, I’m talking to everyone!

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Technology Short Take 136

Scott Lowe

This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Blunden has authored a fairly comprehensive piece on environment variables in Linux and macOS. Linux may be coming to the Apple M1 chip.

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What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

Dataconomy

This feature is particularly useful in environments where only HTTP traffic is allowed, such as in a web proxy or firewall. The VNC protocol is designed to be platform-independent, meaning that it can be used to access and control computers running on any operating system, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others.

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Top Ten Ways Not To Sink the Kubernetes Ship

Linux Academy

Vulnerabilities at the operating system level may be exploited by rogue container workloads if not hardened. These policies, like any firewall, provide an invaluable means of limiting attack vectors both inside and outside the VPC. These suggestions and others are covered in Linux Academy’s Kubernetes Security Course.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Operating Systems/Applications. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. This looks really promising, IMHO—I’m excited to see it continue to develop.

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