Security-Links
Links to sites covering how to secure your linux installation and other security related topics.
Security Securing a New Linux Installation
From a security professional's perspective, a number of common Linux distributions are insecure “out of the box”, and many of the supplied packages are already out of date by the time they reach the shelves. As the security of one's computer and more importantly its data is a priority concern, there are a number of steps that should be taken at the time of installation to secure one's operating system as well as to help identify attempted or successful attacks.
Laptops in "Sleep" or "Hibernation" Mode Most Vulnerable to Attack
A team including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Princeton University, and other researchers have found a major security flaw in several popular disk encryption technologies that leaves encrypted data vulnerable to attack and exposure.”
Researchers from Princeton University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Wind River Systems have published a paper explaining how attackers with physical access to computers can use disk encryption keys in the machine's RAM to bypass disk encryption. Apparently encryption keys remain in RAM for a period of time even when the computer is powered off. powered off. One of the researchers calls the problem “a fundamental limitation in the way these systems were designed.”
