Anyone who is concerned about their Linux servers’ security, stability, and proper functioning needs to audit their systems. Auditing may include anything from logging simple Bash commands to ...

Three contributors examined insecure and unused software included in KDE Linux. The audit led to a return to the vanilla Linux kernel. The Zen kernel that had been in use offered little beyond ...

For a deep penetrating scan of your Linux servers and desktops, turn to the Lynis auditing tool. Check out how to install and use Lynis. Every system on your business network needs auditing at some ...

Detailed user-level auditing for your UNIX and Linux environment is essential to achieving business-critical goals like regulatory compliance (e.g., GLBA, SOX, PCI, etc.), protection against insider ...

AI tools have uncovered Fragnesia, a critical Linux kernel vulnerability, marking the third significant flaw in two weeks and ...

Richard Guy Briggs works on the kernel's audit subsystem for Red Hat and has run into some problems with the interaction between the audit daemon (auditd) and namespaces. He gave a report on those ...

The Linux audit subsystem is not one of the best-loved parts of the kernel. It allows the creation of a log stream documenting specific system events — system calls, modifications to specific files, ...

We at Northrop Grumman recently decided to replace the Microsoft Windows 2000 server on one of our networks with a Linux server running Samba. The primary motivations for replacing the Windows server ...

Centrally managing Windows users, group policy and entitlements through Active Directory is a blessing for Windows IT, but leaves RHEL IT out in the cold. Native tools only go so far. Join Linux ...

What's the best way to audit a Linux server? On Windows I'd check Add/Remove, the running process list, the startup list, look for folders I didn't recognise at the drive root and in Program Files ...