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Linux Security Week: January 20th, 2009
Source: LinuxSecurity.com Contributors - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
This week, perhaps the most interesting articles include the release of Rule Set Based Access Control (RSBAC) 1.4.0, Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram, and the Linux Kernel Security Wiki.
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EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.22 Now Available! (Dec 9)
Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.22 (Version 3.0, Release 22). This release includes many updated packages and bug fixes and some feature enhancements to the EnGarde Secure Linux Installer and the SELinux policy.
Rule Set Based Access Control (RSBAC) 1.4.0 has been released for both Linux kernels 2.4.37 and 2.6.27.10. RSBAC 1.4 mainly introduces the new Virtual User Management feature which allows to isolate complete sets of users in so-called "virtual sets". Every user in every set can have individual passwords and access rights.
Click-through to see the whole announcement, and to leave your opinions of RSBAC. Do you use it? If so, why?
It's that time of the month again: Bruce has put out his latest CRYPTO-GRAM:
A free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and commentaries on security: computer and otherwise. In this issue: Impersonation, News, Forging SSL Certificates, Schneier News, Biometrics, and Comments from Readers.
If you follow his blog then most of this is old new, but if you don't then this is a must-read for everybody. Enjoy!
James Morris posted the following over on his blog:
This is to announce a kernel security subsystem wiki, supported by the kind folk at kernel.org. It's intended for use by community developers and users of kernel security projects. So far, there are sections on working with the security-testing git repo, a listing of various kernel security projects, and an events page. If there's something you'd like to see or change on the wiki (particularly if it relates to your own project), create an account and make it so.
Pretty interesting, click through for the link to the Wiki then go contribute!
