Protecting the Internal Attack Surface
**By:** webdevel@sparkhausmedia.com (Anonymous User (Linux Magazine)) © Lead Image © peshkov, 123RF.com Security is more than a firewall. The biggest worry is what happens when an intruder gets inside. We…
How I Supercharged My Personal Knowledge Base with Local AI
I have thousands of notes. Obsidian vaults, random Markdown files, half-finished research documents, meeting notes from three years ago. And for the longest time, they just sat there, searchable by…
Yet Another Linux Kernel Vulnerability Discovered
**By:** webdevel@sparkhausmedia.com (Gwen Clark) Affecting millions of systems, a kernel flaw discovered by Qualys could allow users to gain root privileges. Here we go again: Another Linux kernel vulnerability has…
5 Ways to Test TCP and UDP Ports in Linux Using nc, nmap, ss, and Bash
You SSH into a fresh server, type telnet 443 out of habit, and the shell tells you the command doesn’t exist. Now you’re about to install a client for a…
Kubescape: Kubernetes Security Scanning for Manifests, Images, and Clusters
Your deployment applied cleanly, and kubectl get pods shows Running. But that same pod might be running as root, have no memory limit, and hold a service account token it…
Exploring the Firefox AI Kill Switch and Mozilla’s Default Behavior with Trackers and Ads
**By:** webdevel@sparkhausmedia.com (Lori White) © Lead Image © creativestocks, 123RF.com Firefox 148 introduced an option called “Block AI enhancements.” What does that mean, is it really a “kill switch” for…