Linux Certification

The openSUSE distribution is a stable, easy to use and complete multi-purpose distribution.
It is aimed towards users and developers working on the desktop or server. It is great for beginners, experienced users and ultra geeks alike, in short, it is perfect for everybody! The latest release, openSUSE 11.4, features new and massively improved versions of all useful server and desktop applications. It comes with more than 1,000 open source applications.

openSUSE is also the base for SUSE’s award-winning SUSE Linux Enterprise products.

“Popular open source Content Management Systems (CMSs) like Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress, are regularly subject to source code reviews as well as blackbox pentesting. Thus, vulnerabilities in these systems are quickly identified and fixed. And security updates are frequently released. Unfortunately, people tend to install the base CMS, add plugins, build their website and then never upgrade when security patches are available. Furthermore, third party developed plugins usually extend the offender’s attack surface and expose the CMS-based website to new threats.

“During pentests, and facing a CMS based website, I often look for open source security tools that are targeted specifically at the CMS in question. These tools usually excel at fingerprinting the CMS version used by the target, detecting installed plugins/themes, and identifying corresponding vulnerabilities. ”

For further reading, please visit: http://aim4r.blogspot.com/2011/08/hacking-joomla-fast-and-easy-way.html