Why it’s time to stop setting SELinux to Permissive or Disabled

Why it’s time to stop setting SELinux to Permissive or Disabled

Too many people shrug off SELinux on their data center systems. Jack Wallen says it’s time to stop giving into that siren song so your operating systems are weakened. Image: iStock/sdecoret Given the kerfuffle that has been CentOS lately, and the number of inevitable forks that will rise out of the ashes, there will probably be a large percentage of admins migrating to, or finally deploying, a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux…

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Satanic Temple Loses Cyber-squatting Lawsuit

Satanic Temple Loses Cyber-squatting Lawsuit

A federal judge in Washington state has dismissed a cyber-squatting claim brought by the Washington Chapter of The Satanic Temple. The United Federation of Churches LLC, doing business as The Satanic Temple, filed a lawsuit against a group of former Temple members who it claimed erased the contents of the Temple’s social media accounts and replaced it with content that was critical of the organization. In 2014, the Washington Chapter created a business page on Facebook to…

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Medal of Honor Holders’ Identities Stolen

Medal of Honor Holders’ Identities Stolen

A threat actor stole the identities of recipients of the US Congressional Medal of Honor and used their personal data to purchase goods from American military exchanges.  According to a Secret Service search warrant application obtained by The Daily Beast, the identities of a third of the living holders of the US government’s highest and most prestigious military decoration were stolen in the attack. In the affidavit, Special Agent Matthew O’Neill writes the United States Secret Service…

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Hacking Proprietary Protocols with Sharks and Pandas | McAfee Blogs

Hacking Proprietary Protocols with Sharks and Pandas | McAfee Blogs

The human race commonly fears what it doesn’t understand.  In a time of war, this fear is even greater if one side understands a weapon or technology that the other side does not.  There is a constant war which plagues cybersecurity; perhaps not only in cybersecurity, but in the world all around us is a battle between good and evil.  In cyber security if the “evil” side understands or pays more attention to a technology…

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Gamer Sues Microsoft Over Cyberbullying

Gamer Sues Microsoft Over Cyberbullying

A video-game maker is suing Microsoft for allegedly failing to protect him from being harassed and cyber-stalked by players of the video-game series Halo.  Russian-born Ezra Romanov, who moved to the United States in 2007 and now resides in New Egypt, New Jersey, describes himself as a prominent member of the Halo gaming community.  In 1998, Romanov, together with his friend Sacha Shibinov, founded an online community that drew together players of the first-person shooter game Unreal….

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Infrastructure modernization remains the biggest use case for enterprise open source

Infrastructure modernization remains the biggest use case for enterprise open source

A new Red Hat report also finds that app development and digital transformation are important to users and that security perceptions have improved. marekuliasz, Getty Images/iStockphoto Infrastructure modernization remains the most important use case for enterprise open source for the third consecutive year, according to Red Hat’s newly released State of Enterprise Open Source Report. Some 64% of respondents cited it as a top use, up from 53% two years ago, the report said. The…

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Announcing VMware Cloud Designlets – VMware Cloud Community

Announcing VMware Cloud Designlets – VMware Cloud Community

Today we are pleased to announce a new set of design resources to help our customers architect environments in VMware Cloud! We’re calling them “designlets.” Designlets are intended to be short-form guides that describe a specific feature or design paradigm. They help identify nuanced considerations and design impacts for a particular component. These designlets also serve as a quick-reference guide, providing key highlights and links to additional resources that is part of the larger VMware…

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Successful Cloud Migration Sets the Table at Bob Evans Farms – VMware Cloud Community

Successful Cloud Migration Sets the Table at Bob Evans Farms – VMware Cloud Community

It’s a common refrain that we hear from IT leaders: Do I update my current infrastructure to suit my apps, or do I migrate my apps to the cloud? When Bob Evans Farms faced a technology refresh in 2015, they found themselves facing this all-too-familiar existential crisis. A refresh would have meant high costs to their existing IT infrastructure, not to mention a continuation of their existing technical debt. Alternatively, was there a way to…

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Far-right platform Gab confirms it was hacked

Far-right platform Gab confirms it was hacked

Gab confirms it was hacked | 2021-03-02 | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more. This Website Uses…

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