Analyzing Malicious SSH Login Attempts

 ( 246 days 15 hours ago)

LinuxSecurity.com: Malicious SSH login attempts have been appearing in some administrators' logs for several years. This article revisits the use of honeypots to analyze malicious SSH login attempts and see what can be learned about this activity. The article then offers recommendations on how to secure one's system against these attacks. We have all see in your log files attempts on trying to login in to our Linux machines through ssh. If you are interesting in learning more about what they are doing then trying to login in to your machine, setting up a honeypot is a great way to learn. This article explains everything you need to know about honeypots.

Linux Wins The Security Showdown! Now What?

 ( 246 days 20 hours ago)

LinuxSecurity.com: So now that Ubuntu Linux was "last man standing" in the PWN to OWN contest at CanSecWest, does this mean open source has it all over the competition when it comes to security? It can, and it ought to -- but it's not a guarantee. And we need to not think it is.