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SELinux: Past, Present and Future
White Papers Red Hat developed SELinux to help the users protect against 0-day exploits. SELinux is the last line of defense on the system. SELinux utilizes Mandatory Access Control (MAC). This webcast provides a brief on SELinux.
[April 14, 2007, 1:01]
Using SELinux on an ICE-Linux CMS
White Papers This white paper is intended for IT professionals interested in using ICE-Linux with Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) extensions enabled on Central Management Server (CMS) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5).
[March 27, 2009, 1:12]
Red Hat readies Enterprise Linux 4
Talkback > SELinux cannot provide any protection against flawed software that is running as a root user, according to information on Red Hat's Web site.should probably be: RHEL4's default SELinux policy provides complete protection for network-facing...
[January 18, 2005, 20:14]
Red Hat readies Enterprise Linux 4
Talkback The SELinux policy in RHEL4 is what they call a "targeted policy" which is designed to be less complicated to manage. It's going to be difficult enough for SELinux newcomers to figure out, so it's probably best that they use a targeted policy since...
[January 17, 2005, 23:28]
Red Hat readies Enterprise Linux 4
Talkback Strange, the article states states that SELinux canät protect you from misbehving applications runnig as root. Normally iin SELinux it doesn't matter what user you are, the security policy is everything.
[January 17, 2005, 15:41]
Enforcing Security Enhanced Linux Policies in a Networked Policy Domain
White Papers Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), in particular, has been enabled by default in some Linux distributions for several years. However, current SELinux deployments only effectively control a single system.
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail
Talkback Time to install a good SELinux policy. Red Hat Fedora Core 3 allready turns on SELinux by default. But unfortunately the secrity policy is targeted at servers. What's need is a policy that sandboxes webbrowsers and e-mail clinets.
[December 9, 2004, 18:17]
Assembler virus spells trouble for Linux
Talkback App armour and SeLinux. App armour and SeLinux also enforce system privileges. However, the security benefits of SeLinux and App armour will not be in vista (or is at least not announced as a feature to my knowledge).
[April 10, 2006, 12:44]
UK government and IBM trial secure Linux
News The design is based on Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and IBM Websphere, a mandatory access control (MAC) application, which gives "need to know" access to security. We've been looking at Websphere middleware to say we can apply SELinux and a...
[April 27, 2006, 13:05]
Arming Linux against hackers
News SELinux relies solely on the kernel and the security configuration policy. The SELinux kernel, utilities, daemon/utility patches, and documentation are available for download from the Security-Enhanced Linux Web site.
[February 18, 2004, 13:40]
Is secure Linux ready for industrial control?
News And in February, the company plans to announce a bundle that includes the control software, SELinux, and security features for tasks such as detecting intrusions. The NSA-augmented version of Linux, called SELinux has tamper-proofing features...
[February 3, 2003, 12:48]
Novell to shield Linux users
News Novell's chief rival, Red Hat, has been adding such features into its product through the use of SELinux, added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2005. Novell argues that AppArmor is "much easier to use than SELinux", according to the project's Web site.
[January 10, 2006, 15:05]
Linux exploit gets around security barrier
News It also uses arbitrary code execution to disable security features such as auditing, Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), AppArmor and Linux Security Module, while making the applications running outside the kernel believe that SELinux is still...
[July 20, 2009, 15:37]
Latest Red Hat clears security hurdle
News SELinux uses "mandatory access controls" to reduce security threats by giving minimum privileges to computer users and processes. The SELinux support will arrive in RHEL 4, due in early 2005, but also will be in a hobbyist version called Fedora...
[April 30, 2004, 12:50]
Red Hat readies Enterprise Linux 4
News Mark Cox of Red Hat security response team told ZDNet UK last summer that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will also include security enhancements derived from the US National Security Agency's Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) project.
[January 17, 2005, 13:20]
Arming Linux against hackers
Talkback How does SELinux stack up against grsecurity patch at www.grsecurity.org
[February 21, 2004, 19:53]
Debian 'Lenny' released
News Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is now a priority standard, which means it will be installed by default during new installations. However, it will not be enabled by default, according to the Debian 5.0 release notes.SELinux enables policy-driven...
[February 16, 2009, 11:45]
Red Hat upgrades kernel to 2.6
News Paul Cormier, Red Hat's executive vice-president of engineering, said one major new feature with RHEL 4 is the inclusion of Security Enhanced Linux, or SELinux. SELinux is enabled by default, with strict security settings for software that provides...
[February 15, 2005, 11:15]
Red Hat predicts death of Solaris
News RHEL v4 is based upon version 2.6 of the Linux kernel, and includes support for the National Security Agency's (NSA) Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) software. Paul Gampe, Red Hat's director of engineering for Asia-Pacific, who also spoke with...
[February 16, 2005, 8:50]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 review
Reviews Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is enabled by default in RHEL 5 and now support multi-level security (MLS) policies. Security is also enhanced across the complete RHEL 5 family, with improvements to both the SELinux implementation and management...
[April 3, 2007, 13:41]
