Authentication is a mechanism that verifies whether an entity is who it claims to be. On a Linux system, applications, such as su, passwd or login, are used to authenticate users before they are given ...

Quest Privilege Manager for Unix (QPM) currently only works with Unix derivatives. No Windows allowed. QPM also uses a different approach than the other three products we tested in that it permits the ...

The Web application landscape is constantly evolving. What started off as a simple means of sharing documents and information has quickly evolved into a platform for conducting business.

Developers at Uber have unveiled a new module to help users enable the continuous re-authentication of SSH keys. Developers at Uber have unveiled a new module to help users enable the continuous ...

Nextron Systems found a malicious Pluggable Authentication Module They named it Plague after finding pop culture references The malware is capable of wreaking havoc across high-value targets Security ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The OpenSSH team has reported details of multiple vulnerabilities in the portable version of the program and issued a version that fixes ...

Two-factor authentication aims to solve the decades-old problem of password-based attacks, such as brute-force attacks and key-logging attacks. In Linux, two-factor authentication can be accomplished ...

In this Daily Feature article, Jim McIntyre shows you ways to use Pluggable Authentication Modules to allow and deny access to system services, based on time. Networks often require access ...

The National Cybersecurity Agency of France, also known as ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information), has open-sourced CLIP OS, an in-house operating system its engineers had ...

Have you ever needed to create a login authentication mechanism for an application? Odds are, you have, and probably more than once, with each new implementation being close, but not identical, to the ...