Fedora Launches The "Red Team" For Dealing With Cybersecurity

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora Launches The "Red Team" For Dealing With Cybersecurity

The Fedora Red Team is a new special interest group (SIG) within the Fedora ecosystem for dealing with cybersecurity...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Red-Team

[GdeR]

So their members won't be neither White Hats nor Black Hats.. lemme guess.. nooo, you don't tell me.. Red Hats!

[c117152]

That's quite progressive. Typically you'd hire a red team and a blue team to stress test your company's network rather then to actively help in the development process.

Nice.

[q2dg]

What about Security Spin? Will it be related?

[M@yeulC]

offensive tooling

Here be black ice

I wonder what they really mean by this, though.

[unixfan2001]

ISIS' black turban hackers will defeat your pansy white hats. You're just not willing to sacrifice enough freedom to stay safe and secure. Muahahahaha (evil laugh)

Did someone detonate thermite in your head?

[nanonyme]

Here be black ice

I wonder what they really mean by this, though.

My guess is one of the goals would be disinfecting systems through exploits without needing permission to access those systems

[starshipeleven]

ISIS' black turban hackers will defeat your pansy white hats. You're just not willing to sacrifice enough freedom to stay safe and secure. Muahahahaha (evil laugh)

Black turban hackers are Sikh, not muslim, you middle-aged american dumbass sitting behind a monitor in a NSA office.

[starshipeleven]

My guess is one of the goals would be disinfecting systems through exploits without needing permission to access those systems

Would be very cool but that's still blatantly illegal.

[starshipeleven]

Here be black ice

I wonder what they really mean by this, though.

Best way to find exploits is to have the best attack tools and have a team of skilled crackers using them to try poking holes on your defenses.

So it probably means they want to make/improve good cracking tools.

Before anyone cries about the same tools being used by bad guys too: bad guys have their tools already.