On the rare occasion that my Linux desktop freezes, I have a few tricks up my sleeve that keep me from having to do a hard ...

Once enabled, all ports are closed, and accessing your machine is made exponentially more challenging. Let's say, however, that you regularly use SSH to access that machine from your LAN.

A newly discovered Linux malware, which has evaded detection for over a year, allows attackers to gain persistent SSH access and bypass authentication on compromised systems.