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- Exploring DDoS Booters 2025: Architecture and Attack Strategiesby MaKenna Hensley on August 18, 2025 at 5:14 pm
Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, booters”or IP stressers, as they’re also called”represent one of those shadowy operations that nearly seem like they belong to a hacker movie.
- Fine-Tuning Security with Attack Vector Controls in Linux Kernel 6.17-rc2by Brittany Day on August 18, 2025 at 1:34 pm
Managing CPU security mitigations has always been one of those balancing acts that systems administrators live and breathe but rarely get applause for. After all, striking the right trade-off between performance and protection is easier said than done, especially when speculative execution vulnerabilities”those infamous flaws with names like Spectre and Meltdown”linger in the mix.
- What Is A Virtual Private Network (VPN)?by Brittany Day on August 18, 2025 at 12:31 pm
If you’re managing a Linux environment, on-prem or in the cloud, chances are you’ve already tangled with questions of network security: firewalls, SSH hardening , package integrity checks ” all the usual suspects. But Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)?
- What Is a Use-After-Free (UAF) Vulnerability?by Brittany Day on August 14, 2025 at 12:31 pm
Ever wonder how a seemingly minor bug in memory management can crack open a door for attackers to slip through? Meet the use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability”an elusive and dangerous class of memory corruption flaw that has plagued Linux systems (and others) for years.
