Vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities are common on all operating systems and related software packages. This section covers how to deal with vulnerabilities on Linux, such as vulnerability management.

Audit SuSE with zypper: vulnerable packages

Stay up-to-date with security patching is part of a decent security management process. This article looks into vulnerable packages on OpenSuSE.

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.

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.

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.

Open source vulnerability scanner for Linux systems – Lynis

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

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.

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.

The Difference Between Auditing and Vulnerability Scanning

What are the differences between technical auditing and vulnerability scanning? While they are close, the focus is definitely different.

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.

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.

Vulnerable packages on FreeBSD: pkg audit

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

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.