Granting root access, even temporarily, is rife with danger. Capabilities could help.

The imminent Windows 8 implementation of UEFI with Secure Boot adds an extra layer of complexity for some Linux users. We look at the problem and two solutions from Fedora and Canonical.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 offers major improvements in performance, security, and hardware support.

The still experimental but promising SEAndroid framework offers SELinux-like mandatory access control for the Android universe.

Now that your networks are secure and you’ve convinced your users to secure their passwords and software, it’s time to turn your attention to your hardware to keep it from being attacked.

Secure your enterprise, monitor system performance, and more by harnessing the power of Splunk to search, monitor, report, and analyze events and data from any source.

For its size, fail2ban, a utility that scans logfiles and bans suspicious IP addresses, punches well above its weight.

You may have already tried PGP/GPG public key encryption for documents or mail, but do you know what’s going on under the hood and what level of security you’re actually getting? We take an in-depth look at GnuPG encryption.