The Arch Linux project was started by Judd Vinet in his attempt to create his own ideal distribution. He wanted to make a lightweight and simple system aimed at power users.

Network access control (NAC) aims to unify endpoint security, system authentication, and security enforcement in a more intelligent network access solution than simple firewalls.

Linux machines are very much aware in the case of security, but this extra security may sometimes become a headache for simple linux users. For example, if u have separate partitions or hard drives (for your backup, music collection or photo collection), every time you boot up, you have to mount those when required, providing a password which is sometimes very much irritating.

Dr. Ali Jahangiri, the well known security expert and author of Live Hacking: The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Techniques & Countermeasures for Ethical Hackers & IT Security Experts, is pleased to announce the launch of the Live Hacking CD, a new Linux distribution designed for ethical hacking.

This tutorial explains how to set up PHPIDS on a web server with Apache2 and PHP5. PHPIDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System) is a simple to use, well structured, fast and state-of-the-art security layer for your PHP based web application.

Everyone in the IT industry is concerned with security, especially Linux administrators. Many Linux distributions come with several services that you may not use or ever need, but they're running on your server anyways. This can cause many security threats.

How to make a server room full with Linux security appliances available to traveling users? If you are traveling a lot with you laptop and if you like to have the same level of security as within your company’s corporate network – this is perhaps a solution for you.

Web developers already have localStorage, which is used for client side storage of simple key-value pairs. This alone doesn’t address the needs of many web applications for structured storage and indexed data. Mozilla is working on a structured storage API with indexing support called IndexedDB, and we will have some test builds in the next few weeks.

Version 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools.