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How OPNFV Earned Its Security Stripes and Received a CII Best Practices Badge
Earning the CII badge will have a HUGE impact on OPNFV’s general approach to building security into the development model (something all open source projects should model). Statistics show that around 50 percent of vulnerabilities in a software are “flaws” (usually design fault/defective design, which is hard to fix after software has been released) and 50 percent bugs (implementation fault). Following these best practices will hopefully address both design and implementation faults before they become vulnerabilities.
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MySQL Hit By "Critical" Remote Code Execution 0-Day
The latest high-profile open-source software project having a bad security day is MySQL... MySQL 5.5/5.6/5.7 has a nasty zero-day vulnerability.
Researchers have discovered multiple "severe" MySQL vulnerabilities with the CVE-2016-6662 being marked as critical and does affect the latest MySQL version.
This 0-day is open for both local and remote attackers and could come via authenticated access to a MySQL database (including web UI administration panels) or via SQL injection attacks. The exploit could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
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CVE-2016-6662 - MySQL Remote Root Code Execution / Privilege Escalation ( 0day )
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Is Debian the gold standard for Linux security?
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10 Best Password Managers For Linux Operating Systems
With so many online accounts on the internet, it can be tediously difficult to remember all your passwords. Many people write them down or store them in a document, but that’s plain insecure. There are many password managers for Windows and OS X, but here we’ll look at some of the best password managers for Linux.
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