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The obstacles to Linux security
These ideas have yet to reach major distributions. So far as they are modernizing security and privacy at all, they seem to be placing their faith in containers, isolating applications to minimize the damage that an intrusion can do.
This is an important new security feature, and in fact, containers feature in security distros like Subgraph. However, containers are a new technology, which means that they should be relied on cautiously. If nothing else, as Subgraph recognizes, defense in depth is a basic principle of security, and there is no need to depend on a single feature when so many others are readily available.
The main challenge now is not to add security and privacy features -- although new ones like containers are always welcome. Instead, the challenge is to make the existing features accessible. If they add inconvenience in the form of changed work flow and extra precautions, they need to minimize inconvenience in other ways, so that users will accept them.
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Malware, Hacking Is A Serious Game, But Security Experts Warn Against Panic
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Google patches Dirty Cow Linux vulnerability in Android security bulletin
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December Android Security Update Includes Dirty Cow Fix
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Old Linux Kernel Code Execution Bug Patched
A critical, local code-execution vulnerability in the Linux kernel was patched more than a week ago, continuing a run of serious security issues in the operating system, most of which have been hiding in the code for years.
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Cryptography Professor To Audit Open Source Software Used By Most VPN Services
OpenVPN, an open source VPN client on which a majority of VPN services rely, will be audited by cryptography and network security professor Matthew Green. The audit will be funded by Private Internet Access (PIA), one of the major VPN service providers in the United States.
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