UEFI and Secure Boot No Free Boots

Jun 20, 2012

The imminent Windows 8 implementation of UEFI with Secure Boot adds an extra layer of complexity for some Linux users. We look at the problem and two solutions from Fedora and Canonical.

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Spyrus Offers Secure Pocket Drive for Linux

Apr 26, 2012

Carry your own Linux with this new hardware-encrypted boot stick.

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Protect your Documents with GPG GPG

Apr 09, 2012

You may have already tried PGP/GPG public key encryption for documents or mail, but do you know what’s going on under the hood and what level of security you’re actually getting? We take an in-depth look at GnuPG encryption.

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Charly’s Column: haveged The sys admin’s daily grind: haveged Random Release

Sep 02, 2011

Practical cryptography is often an encounter with many random numbers in just a few moments. Entropy is the raw material that gives birth to the random number, but it’s harder to come by than you might think.

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Red Hat Summit and JBoss World: May 3-6

Apr 13, 2011

Red Hat announces IBM, Accenture, Alfresco, Cisco, HP and Intel representatives are scheduled to deliver keynotes at the seventh annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, May 3-6, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Security Lessons Linux security in the cloud

Mar 28, 2011

Although you give up control of the underlying infrastructure when you use cloud computing, you can still maintain some control over security.

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Security Lessons: HTML5 HTML5 – Building a better botnet

Jan 31, 2011

New web technologies address shortcomings in web browsers but create new problems as well.

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OSSTMM 3.0 Released

Dec 15, 2010

The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM) announced the released of the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM) 3.0.

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