By David Murphy David Murphy serves as the practice manager for MongoDB at Percona, a provider of enterprise-class MySQL and MongoDB solutions and services. MongoDB security is in the news again. …read more Source:: OpenSource
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IDG Contributor Network: Linux: The 10 best privacy and security distributions
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•By Jim Lynch The 10 best privacy and security distributions Privacy has become an important issue for many users as corporations and governments stop at nothing to gather personal information. But Linux users do …read more Source:: OpenSource
Hadoop vendors make a jumble of security
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•By Matt Asay A year ago a Deutsche Bank survey of CIOs found that “CIOs are now broadly comfortable with [Hadoop] and see it as a significant part of the future …read more Source:: OpenSource
Self-protection is key to Linux kernel security
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Linux has quietly taken over the world. The operating system now powers the large datacenters that make all our cloud applications and services possible, along with billions of Android devices …read more Source:: OpenSource
FBI withdrew national security letter after Cloudflare lawsuit
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•Cloudflare, served with a national security letter at the beginning of 2013, managed to get the FBI to withdraw its request but has been under a gag order preventing it …read more Source:: Legal
D-Link fights back against ‘baseless’ data security lawsuit
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•Suing companies for the potential of a data security breach would stifle IoT innovation, the firm representing D-Link against the FTC’s lawsuit has argued. …read more Source:: Legal
Open source server simplifies HTTPS, security certificates
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid For administrators seeking an easier method to turn on HTTPS for their websites, there is Caddy, an open source web server that automatically sets up security certificates and serves sites …read more Source:: OpenSource
FTC files lawsuit against D-Link for router and camera security flaws
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•The FTC has filed a lawsuit against D-Link for failing to protect its customers against ‘well known and easily preventable software security flaws’ in its routers and IoT cameras. …read more Source:: Legal
Exim gives Linux admins a security fix for Christmas
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Linux administrators will have to change their holiday plans, because Exim is still releasing a security update on Christmas Day, and not earlier as had been hoped. An information …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Ubuntu Core has the keys to IoT security
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•By Swapnil Bhartiya In October, a DDoS attack on Dyn’s infrastructure took down a big chunk of the internet, making sites like Amazon and Twitter inaccessible. It was the first major attack …read more Source:: OpenSource