Several Linux security events are planned in association with LinuxCon this year in Portland, Oregon.

• 2009 SELinux Developer Summit
  The CFP for this event has just been published. The developer summit will be held on the 20th of September as an ancillary event of LinuxCon. This is a one-day event, and developers are encouraged to submit proposals ( Read more... )

Version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel was released during Christmas, so I thought it'd be worthwhile waiting until after typical vacation days to post a summary of changes to the security subsystem. As always, thanks to the Kernel Newbies folk who track major kernel changes.

• Dummy SELinux policy support
  Serge Hallyn added a dummy policy for SELinux ( Read more... )

Here's an update on the main functional changes in security for the recently released 2.6.27 kernel.

• SELinux deferred mapping of filesystem contexts
  This patch by Stephen Smalley addresses the case where "alien" SELinux security labels need to be written to the local filesystem, for example, in the case of building RPMs where the local policy is ( Read more... )