This tutorial deals only with how to add an extra encrypted physical volume to a volume group pool containing other encrypted physical volumes. This is typical scenario if, at first, you have set up your encryption at a physical partition level (/dev/sdaX where X is the a number of your partition), then you setup your LVM on top of the encrypted partition.
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Public Service Announcement to Debian and Ubuntu Users
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"... «A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system.
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Secure the Hell Out of Your Linux Desktop/Server
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Are you paranoid about script kiddies? Crackers? The government? Competing business? Well here's a comprehensive list of howto's and explainers to secure the living hell out of your Linux desktop. Follow this perfectly, and the chances of your system being compromised severely drops
Read more »Study: 70 percent say Red Hat more secure than Windows
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The Standish group recently completed an extensive study that examines factors influencing open-source adoption. Based on five years of research and analysis, the report provides intriguing insights into open-source adoption levels and the way that open source is reshaping the software industry.
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Protecting directory trees with gpgdir
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gpgdir uses GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) to encrypt and decrypt files or a directory tree. You could accomplish the same objective by tarring the filesystem up and then encrypting the tar.gz file with GnuPG, but then you would still have to shred or wipe every file in the original directory tree. With gpgdir the whole tree is encrypted in one command.
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Introduction to Forensics
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There are certain aspects to system administration that you can learn only from experience. Computer forensics (among other things the ability to piece together clues from a system to determine how an intruder broke in) can take years or even decades to master. If you have never conducted a forensics analysis on a computer, you might not even know exactly where to start.
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NSA Guides for Securing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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These are some decent guides for securing your Red Hat Linux 5 system provided by the US Government’s NSA. Enjoy
Read more »With Vista Breached, Linux Unbeaten in Hacking Contest
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The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference. Article and video.
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Results of the PWN to OWN Competition
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You may or may not have heard of it, but the PWN to OWN Competition is an annual competition where hackers get together to try to hack into 3 different machines: a Mac, a Linux box, and a Vista box. So far, the results have been both surprising and unsurprising as well.
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Customize the Update Manager in Ubuntu
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One of the great things about using open source software is the frequency with which bugs are fixed, security holes are patched, and new features are added. Ubuntu includes a very convenient update manager but constantly upgrading your system can be a burden. This guide will explain howto customize the manager to run less often, or automatically install updates.
Read more »Does open source software raise security issues?
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Customer demand is synonymous with technological innovation. Pushing the boundaries of product design, manufacturers continually look to do more – features, functionality and processing power – in less space for less money.
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Howto: Setup a Software Firewall in Linux using Firestarter
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One of the great features included in Linux is the IPtables firewall. Unfortunately, its command-line use is rather complex, and it can be intimidating for even experienced Linux users to configure it. Firestarter is a friendly graphical interface that allows you to configure a software firewall in Linux using the built-in IPtables/IPchains utilities.
Read more »Debian & APT - Why I love it
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I don’t want to say its the best, but I’ve been using Debian, Ubuntu and other APT based Linuxes for years now. Ubuntu on desktop PC’s and Debian on Servers (only because I have a few servers already on Debian and keeping all identical is worth doing). I don’t run GUI’s on my servers.
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Can Mozilla be made more secure?
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Window Snyder has the somewhat offbeat title of "chief security something-or-other" at Mozilla, where she is responsible for overseeing efforts to boost the security of the company's open-source offerings, including the Firefox browser.
Read more »Truecrypt 5.0 is out, now with GUI for linux
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A new version of Truecrypt is out with a bunch of new features including the ability to encrypt an entire system partition with pre-boot authentication, and finally a GUI for Linux users.
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