In an age where data breaches and cyber threats are growing both in frequency and sophistication, securing your Linux system is more important than ever. Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux ...
Three years ago, I devoted a couple columns (in the April and August 2006 issues of LJ) to Novell AppArmor, a partial implementation of Mandatory Access Controls (MACs) that Novell had integrated into ...
On October 12, 2023, Canonical will be releasing Ubuntu 23.10. This new version of Ubuntu Linux is already looking good. One new security feature, however, hasn't gotten much attention: Restricted ...
Novell reduces AppArmor work, relying instead on the open-source community, but project leaders launch a new company for the open-source Linux security project. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...
Three security bypasses have been discovered in Ubuntu Linux’s unprivileged user namespace restrictions, which could be enable a local attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in kernel components. The ...
Since last week, new snapshots of the rolling release Linux distribution openSUSE Tumbleweed have been using SELinux access protection by default. By default, the Mandatory Access Control (MAC) is set ...