Find out about the new features in Fedora 9 straight from the source–Paul Frields, the new Fedora project leader. He talks with us about the massive changes in KDE4, the new (and improved) LiveUSB features, and the many, many people that helped get Sulphur off to a running start. And what’s in store for Fedora 10? Watch and learn…
Uli Drepper is a Red Hat developer and the lead contributor and maintainer of the GNU C Library (glibc). Watch the first, second, third, and fourth videos in this series.
This is the fifth and final installment in our talks with Uli series. In this episode, Uli takes on the task of explaining what system administrators can do to help prevent exploits much like the ones mentioned in previous episodes.
More specifically, Uli brings up what admins aren’t doing and goes into some depth about ASLR, security policies, and the importance of enabling SELinux.
We hope you’ve enjoyed this five-part series with Ulrich Drepper, and as always, we’ve included an unedited version of the interview as a podcast.
In the comments, we’d love to hear what you’ve thought of the series and if you’d like to see more similar content in the future.
Uli Drepper is a Red Hat developer and the lead contributor and maintainer of the GNU C Library (glibc). Watch the first, second, and third videos in this series.
The fourth installment of our sessions with developer Ulrich Drepper has us discussing how to play nicely with SELinux. Uli covers everything from system policies being implemented now to tools (such as SE Troubleshooter) that help your programs get along with those policies. He also talks about what policies may look like in the future, starting with Fedora 8.
This segment goes hand-in-hand with our previous talk with Uli at the 2007 Red Hat Summit. For more information on Uli and his works, visit his web site.
As always, we have a tasty, tasty podcast for you in mp3 and ogg flavors. And don’t forget to join us next time when Uli talks about things that system administrators can do to make their systems run more smoothly.
Uli Drepper is a Red Hat developer and the lead contributor and maintainer of the GNU C Library (glibc). Watch the first and second videos in this series.
This third installment in our five-part series of videos featuring Ulrich Drepper is a discussion of memory allocation errors. Specifically Uli covers exploits related to linked lists and the heuristics set to catch these errors. He also discusses what that means for the end user.
Next time Uli will talk about how to make SELinux easeir for you in your day-to-day tasks so that you can enjoy the benefits of a secure environment.
As a supplement to the video, we’re providing an unedited podcast.
Uli Drepper is a Red Hat developer and the lead contributor and maintainer of the GNU C Library (glibc). See the first video in this series.
In the second of five films featuring Uli Drepper, he talks a little more about buffer overflows and another security implementation currently being used.
Learn a little about libc attacks stemming from buffer overflows and the canaries that serve to protect the stack in these emergencies.
Once again, we’re offering up an unabridged podcast of our session that picks up where the last left off. Don’t forget to join us next time when we will discuss a little about malloc exploits.
A quick look at how and why yum replaced up2date as Red Hat Network’s package management system, as told by Bret McMillan, a supervising RHN engineer. It’s a quick study of how user need drives innovation and how community collaboration solves problems faster and more completely than individual work. The yum story shows how open source development communities form around problems like “RPM dependency hell” and solve them in ways that proprietary software engineers are hard-pressed to match.
Get to know a little about stack exploits in the first of five films featuring Uli Drepper. Find out how stack buffer overflows work, the vulnerabilities abused by such attacks, and a security implementation that can stop the attack before it even begins.
We’re also offering up an extended version of the talk–available as a podcast–for those of you on the go.
And join us next time, where we’ll hear from Uli about more exotic attacks and other types of security measures.
