If you operate Internet-connected servers, chances are you eventually will have to deal with a successful attack. Last year, I discovered that despite the multilayered defenses in place on a test Web ...

Developers often recommend disabling security like SELinux support to get software to work. Not a good idea. Nor is SELinux the only security option other than the standard user/group file permission ...

These days, security is one of those things everyone talks about and in this arena, many actually do something about it. Using mandatory-access-control (MAC) systems like SELinux and AppArmor can ...

Modern Linux distributions ship with a plethora of security features and tools, and one of the most important features added to the kernel has been the inclusion of SELinux. SELinux solves one the ...

I get it–SELinux is challenging, and when your applications or services are prevented by the security layer, your first inclination is to set it to either Disabled or Permissive. In a time when ...

How to configure SSH to use a non-standard port with SELinux set to enforcing Your email has been sent Switching the SSH listening port is an easy way to help secure remote login on your Linux servers ...