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Frankfurt AMI intl. support group public announcements

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Many are now on Ubuntu 18 LTS. If not, this is a great summary of what’s new.

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Mitigating security risks - IBM Patent 9560075

To combat data breaches, IBM researchers created an AI system that detects and deters would-be hackers by luring them down into dead-ends. Patent 9560075 proactively baits hackers into messaging and email exchanges, leading them to needlessly spend valuable time and resources on nonexistent leads. The system can potentially reduce security risks associated with “phishing” and other malicious activity.

This is just one of the record-breaking 9,000+ patents IBM received in 2017. Explore more patents->  

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Very amusing.

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Security essentials

For our BYOD’s, these are the most basic things you must know how to utilise in order to be part of our support group.

Selinux : Isolates applications from files and features that they should not access via sandboxing. 

Linux audit : This will let us know exactly what users and applications do in each and every system.

Apparmor : There may be instances where Apparmor is used for various reasons. It is a standard in some distrobutions.  Chroot : The grand old Sandbox. Easy to configure and raise security.

Polickiit: Only provide root privileges for those that actually need it.

What have we forget?