Ubuntu

The latest release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) was published last week.

My OpenStack cloud depends on Ubuntu, and the latest release of OpenStack-Ansible (what I use to deploy OpenStack) requires Ubuntu 16.

All systems running systemd come with a powerful tool for reviewing the system journal: journalctl.

Lots of work has gone into the openstack-ansible-security Ansible role since I delivered a talk about it last month at the OpenStack Summit in Austin.

I’ve gone on some mini-rants in other posts about starting daemons immediately after they’re installed in Ubuntu and Debian.

Today is the second day of the OpenStack Summit in Austin and I offered up a talk on host security hardening in OpenStack clouds.

Updating Dell PowerEdge firmware from Linux is quite easy, but it isn’t documented very well.

The blog posts have slowed down a bit lately because I’ve been heads down on a security project at work.

I’ve been getting involved with the Fedora Security Team lately and we’re working as a group to crush security bugs that affect Fedora, CentOS (via EPEL) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (via EPEL).

One of the first tools I learned about after working with Red Hat was sysstat.

We’re all familiar with live booting Linux distributions.

If you want your iptables rules automatically loaded every time your networking comes up on your Debian or Ubuntu server, you can follow these easy steps.

I set up a system at home that has two SATA controllers: one is on the motherboard (nvidia chipset), while the other is on a Silicon Image SATA card that has three eSATA ports.