Deja Vu All Over Again

Ryan Naraine of ZDNet's Zero Day reports today about a serious flaw in Apple's Safari web browser.  It is yet one more example that should make these questions stand out:

"Will these security issues ever end and is there any way to have worry-free internet browsing? "

The answers respectively are: No and Yes!

Thankfully, the good Folks at Novell have taken steps to fulfill the 'Yes' by including AppArmor in openSUSE.  AppArmor effectively puts any application you desire into a secure 'sandbox', for example, your internet browser.

Even if there is a zero-day security flaw that can be exploited in your browser to gain privilege escalation, AppArmor will stop it cold before that happens.  In such an event, it may become necessary to restart your browser session or other application, but that's all.

So, if you're feeling like you've just about reached your security issues tolerance limit and would like to make a major change that will make a real difference, then please follow along in a multi-part series entitled Is It Safe?, where I provide the essentials on what you can do to ensure the best possible safe computing experience using openSUSE.

Thanks and Be Safe.

--dietrich