Vulnerabilities

Show vulnerable packages on Arch Linux with arch-audit

With the right tool, arch-audit in this case, we can find any vulnerable package that is installed on a Arch Linux system. Learn how it works.

Why Auditing and Vulnerability Scanning are Different Things

Why is auditing and vulnerability scanning not the same? In this article we have a look at both, look at the differences, and how they complementary.

Vulnerability Scanning: The Destiny to Disappointment?

Vulnerability management is an important process to deal with vulnerabilities in software and hardware. At the same time it can become challenging very quickly.

Understanding Linux privilege escalation and defending against it

The best way to defend a system is by understanding how attackers work. Learn about privilege escalation on Linux and discover the measures and tools.

Linux vulnerabilities: from detection to treatment

How to deal with Linux vulnerabilities? This article shares the insights, methods, and tools to help with detection and prevention on Linux systems.

Forget Linux Vulnerability Scanning: Get Better Defenses

Vulnerability scanning focuses on weaknesses, or negative aspects of information security. A new look at an existing issue.

Protecting the browser: Web of Trust

Systems running Linux might be a safe option, yet web browsers and the user will always be under attack from malicious scripts.

Vulnerabilities and Digital Signatures for OpenBSD Software Packages

When coming across an OpenBSD system, one can not ignore auditing the OpenBSD software packages and its configuration. Learn more what OpenBSD has to offer.

Perform NetBSD security audit with pkg_admin

NetBSD can perform a security audit on its packages with the pkg_admin tool. With the check and audit parameters it can perform security check in seconds.

Protect Linux systems against SSLv3 Poodle vulnerability

The Poodle vulnerability was discovered in October 2014, putting all systems using SSL 3.0 at risk. Here is what to do to protect against it.

How to solve Shellshock on Debian and Ubuntu

Also Debian and Ubuntu are vulnerable for Shellshock vulnerability in Bash. That's why it is important to run apt update and perform an upgrade of Bash.

How to protect yourself against Shellshock Bash vulnerability

Bash is one of the most used shells on Unix based systems. The discovered shellshock vulnerability affects millions of systems. Learn how to protect.