It's story time here in the Paranoid Penguin. Don't worry—the story is a preface to the nuts-and-bolts sort of stuff you've come to expect in LJ. In fact, there are so many nuts and bolts to play with ...

What is SSL/TLS? SSL and TLS are protocols used on the transport layer, which is used to provide a secure connection between two nodes in a computer network. The first widely used protocol that was ...

The lean SSH server Dropbear is closing a privilege escalation vulnerability with an updated version, among other things.

Cisco warned customers today of an unpatched, maximum-severity Cisco AsyncOS zero-day actively exploited in attacks targeting ...

Our kids' room has its own routine. When we say, "Alexa, it's bedtime," their sound machine turns on (powered by a smart plug), their bedside lamp switches off, and their smart light strip turns on to ...

I started building my home lab with a Raspberry Pi 4. That SBC helped me learn and experiment with software without spending ...

The company suffered one sophisticated five-alarm campaign and one messy spray-and-pray attack, mere days apart.

Chinese hackers are exploiting a critical Cisco email security flaw, gaining root access and installing backdoors. This ...

Minecraft fits Linux in a natural way. The game doesn’t demand complicated setup, and the OS gives you a clean, stable base ...

A China-affiliated threat actor has been abusing a zero-day vulnerability in multiple Cisco email appliances to gain access to the underlying system and establish persistence. Cisco confirmed the news ...

Building a Jellyfin server is easy and cheap, letting you drop Netflix and Disney Plus while taking control of your library.

Meanwhile, Unraid is great for folks who don’t mind spending some extra money on a no-nonsense NAS distro. Depending on your ...