Researchers at German infosec services company Nextron Threat have spotted malware that creates a highly-persistent Linux ...

A newly discovered Linux malware, which has evaded detection for over a year, allows attackers to gain persistent SSH access ...

A malicious PAM module, undetected by VirusTotal, embedded itself in the login process, granting covert access and resisting ...

"The implant is built as a malicious PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module), enabling attackers to silently bypass system ...

The above slopfarm of the Serial Slopper (SS) shows us how far some Microsofters [1] can manage to spread their claims of a "Linux backdoor" [2] or claim "backdoor sets sights on Linux" [3] when the ...

Extending a container’s security infrastructure JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization Services) implements a version of Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) for Java applications.

In this Daily Feature article, Jim McIntyre shows you ways to use Pluggable Authentication Modules to allow and deny access to system services, based on time. Networks often require access ...

PAM, or pluggable authentication modules, are mechanisms that combine a series of lower tiered authentication schemes into a higher-level API.