How to Check Integrity With AIDE in Fedora
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a program for checking the integrity of a file and directory on any modern Unix-like system. It creates a database of files on the system, and then uses...
Category: Security
Tiger – The Unix Security Audit and Intrusion Detection Tool
Tiger is a free, open source collections of shell scripts for security audit and host intrusion detection, for Unix-like systems such as Linux. It’s a security checker written entirely in shell language and employs...
Firejail – Securely Run Untrusted Applications in Linux
Sometimes you may want to use applications that have not been well tested in different environments, yet you must use them. In such cases, it is normal to be concerned about the security of...
How to Configure and Use PAM in Linux
Linux-PAM (short for Pluggable Authentication Modules which evolved from the Unix-PAM architecture) is a powerful suite of shared libraries used to dynamically authenticate a user to applications (or services) in a Linux system. It...
Tor Browser: An Ultimate Web Browser for Anonymous Web Browsing in Linux
Most of us give a considerable time of ours to Internet. The primary Application we require to perform our internet activity is a browser, a web browser to be more perfect. Over Internet most...
How to Access a Remote Server Using a Jump Host
A jump host (also known as a jump server) is an intermediary host or an SSH gateway to a remote network, through which a connection can be made to another host in a dissimilar...
How to Install, Configure and Use Firewalld in CentOS and Ubuntu
Firewalld (firewall daemon) is an alternative to the iptables service, for dynamically managing a system’s firewall with support for network (or firewall) zones and provides a D-Bus interface for managing configurations. It’s easy to...
How to Use Fail2ban to Secure Your Linux Server
Improving your server security should be one of your top priorities, when it comes to managing a linux server. By reviewing your server logs, you may often find different attempts for brute force login,...
Tomb – A File Encryption and Personal Backup Tool for Linux
Tomb is a free open source, small, powerful and simple tool for encrypting files on GNU/Linux. At the time of this writing, it comprises of a shell script (zsh) using generic filesystem GNU tools...
Install and Configure ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) in Linux
If you look at IT-related job postings anywhere, you will notice a steady demand for security pros. This does not only mean that cybersecurity is an interesting field of study, but also a very...
