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Auditing Download Practices

7 February 2007 By Saran

Downloading practically anything on the web is only normal. It is the primary basis and tag that the Internet has gained over the years, especially if one talks about music and images available over the Internet. While downloading practices by people have no limit whatsoever, it would be wise for people to stick towards the reliable and suggested sites such as that of Tucows and Download.com for programs and files needed. The Internet simply has too much unknowns that places workstation at risk.

Security on Downloads

Viruses and infected sites are normal over the web as well. Phone dialers usually associated with pornographic sites may soon be installed on the computer desktop of any person without their knowledge. Further, the presence of malware and worms may be lurking around simultaneously with the actual download. Symptoms such as slower browsing and peculiar pages that appear on start-up should keep anyone worried. It may just so happen that they have been intruded by untoward programs and viruses gotten online.

[tags]downloads, music, graphics, images, applications, malware[/tags]

Filed Under: IT Security Basics, Malware, Network Security, Programming, Spyware, Storage Tagged With: applications, downloads, graphics, images, Malware, music

Novell: Secure your system with AppArmor

24 August 2006 By Saran

AppArmor

Novell would like to release a Linux with security management made easy according to the news on Security Focus. They have decided to not use security modifications by the National Security Agency because of the difficulty in configuring it. They have with it AppArmor though.

According to an article on Security Focus, the latest additions to SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) have been discussed in LinuxWorld. The focus was on AppArmor.

What’s up with AppArmor?

The AppArmor will be concerned with making access a bit more restrictive. There are some applications which need root access — these applications could make changes that would affect the entire system and if you want to make sure it would not happen, AppArmor could be the way for you to restrict access.

It is said to be that it is easy to use. Aside from that your system could be protected from internal and external attacks. This would be a plus factor, especially if you think about the costs of recovering from attacks that could affect your data.

How simple is simple?

  • You have a name-based access control system.
  • There is a graphical user interface.
  • There are predefined profiles.
  • There are wizards you could use to build security profiles for third party applications.

Check it out

Novell Linux is surely geared towards the users in the enterprise. If you want something that has a robust set of open source applications, a good user interface and tools, it is definitely one to try. You might not enjoy tweaking around too much and from the looks of things, SLED could be the Linux to give you an easy transition, in case you are migrating from proprietary to open source software.

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Filed Under: Operating Systems, Real-World Issues Tagged With: applications, linux, novell, Operating Systems, Real-World Issues, security

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