Vulnerabilities articles

Last change: 2025-01-10

The lynis command runs a security audit on Linux systems to test for vulnerable packages, security issues, and possible improvements for system hardening.

Last change: 2025-01-06

Everything related to vulnerability management on Linux, such as scanning for vulnerabilities, tracking them, and possible actions to take.

Last change: 2025-01-06

FreeBSD has a powerful package manager tool audit your installed software packages. Run a security scan with pkg audit and keep your system secured.

Last change: 2025-01-06

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.

Last change: 2025-01-06

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.

Last change: 2025-01-06

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

Last change: 2025-01-06

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.

Last change: 2025-01-06

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

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

Last change: 2025-01-06

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.

Last change: 2025-01-06

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.

Last change: 2025-01-06

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

Last change: 2025-01-06

Learn more about vulnerability scanning on Linux systems using the Lynis auditing tool. Check for weaknesses and security measures that can be implemented.