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Stories · 4

  1. EnGarde Secure Linux v2 Out

    It · Security · · posted by Hemos · from the lock-it-down dept. · 70 comments
    Chuck writes "I came across EnGarde Secure Linux about two years ago when it was first released, and I see they just released the newest version. Improved Mandatory Access Control using LIDS, awesome web-based manager, code from the Openwall Project and winner of the Network Computing Hardened Linux product of the year. I love EnGarde."

  2. The Tiger Security Tool Has Been Resurrected

    Developers · Gnu · · posted by timothy · from the aggie-tigers-changing-lightbulbs dept. · 7 comments
    javifs writes "Do you remember TAMU's security tools? If so you might remember a tool that was developed when COPS, SATAN, and ISS were (back in 1994): Tiger. You might think it was dead, well it's not. Tiger has resurrected at Savannah and even has a new webpage and logo! (cool, isn't it?) Tiger has some interesting features that merit its resurrection, including a modular design that is easy to expand, and its double edge: an audit tool and a host intrusion detection system tool. Free Software intrusion detection is currently going many ways, however, from network IDS (with Snort), to the kernel (LIDS, or SNARE for Linux and Systrace for OpenBSD, for example), not mentioning file integrity checkers (many of these: aide, integrit samhain, tripwire...) and logcheckers (even more of these, check Counterpane's Log Analysis pages). Also, free software Linux/*BSD distributions have a miriad of security tools to do local security checks: Mandrake's msec, OpenBSD's /etc/security, SUSE's Seccheck... maybe Tiger could substitute them at some point in the future. Do you think Tiger has a place in the toolkit of the security professional? (I might be biased, though, after all I'm the upstream developer for Tiger now :-) ) In any case, have you downloaded and tested the latest release candidate for Tiger version 3.2?"

  3. Additional Security in the Linux Kernel?

    Ask · Security · · posted by Cliff · from the going-beyond-ugo dept. · 300 comments
    nyx asks: "Recently, I was looking for some way to improve security on my linux boxes. I found few linux patches like grsecurity, LIDS (now also as Linux Security Module), Medusa DS9. I'm testing grsecurity (and it's ACLs) now and I'm quite satisfied with it, but I wonder, what are pros and cons of other solutions. Anybody tried them and can share his experience with us?"

  4. Rate the Intrusion Detection Systems?

    Ask · Security · · posted by Cliff · from the watch-out-for-the-rabid-digital-guard-dog dept. · 14 comments
    Swannie asks: "The company I'm working for is looking into Intrusion Detection Systems. I was curious on how good/bad/ugly/cute/cuddly LIDS (Linux Intrusion Detection System) is when compared to other, commercial, systems like Cisco's NetRanger, etc. I'd be interested in information from my fellow geeks that have deployed LIDS in real world situations, as well as anyone that has switched to LIDS from a commercial solution, or vice-versa. Hopefully if I have some ammunition to go to the powers that be, I'll be able to utilize an open-source (and less expensive) Linux solution instead of a more expensive commercial one." Are there any other options out there which can be added to this comparison? In an odd bit of synchronicity, this article popped up before press time, which offers up another possible answer, in the form of Snort.