[Drew DeVault] recently wrote up some interesting instructions on how to package up interactive text-based Linux commands for users to access via ssh. At first, this seems simple, but there are quite ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The open-source OpenSSH project today announced a critical ...

A new botnet called 'RapperBot' is being used in attacks since mid-June 2022, focusing on brute-forcing its way into Linux SSH servers to establish a foothold on the device. The researchers show that ...

Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2022.1, the first version of 2022, with improved accessibility features, a visual refresh, SSH wide compatibility, and of course, new toys to play with! Kali ...

Researchers have found a malicious backdoor in a compression tool that made its way into widely used Linux distributions, including those from Red Hat and Debian. Because the backdoor was discovered ...

I just installed RedHat Linux 7.2 and everything seems to be working fine. I just need it to listen op port 22 for incoming SSH connections, so I can remotely connect to it. I'm pretty sure I've got ...

It's story time here in the Paranoid Penguin. Don't worry—the story is a preface to the nuts-and-bolts sort of stuff you've come to expect in LJ. In fact, there are so many nuts and bolts to play with ...

If you connect to remote computers over the Internet, it is a pretty good chance you use some form of SSH or secure shell. On Linux or Unix you’ll use the ssh command. Same goes for Linux-like ...

Topic ===== access restrictions can be bypassed in openssh. Problem Description ===== In some circumstances, the sshd server may not honor the "from=" option that can be associated with a key in a ...

While our web site is not a security warning site (we strongly recommend subscribing to your distribution's security mailing list), we feel there are two serious Linux security problems of which you ...