In Linux, hard and soft links are referenced to files, which are very important, if not protected very well, any vulnerabilities in them can be exploited by malicious system users or attackers. A common...
How often do you leave a Linux system idle after login; a situation which can be referred to as an ‘idle session’, where you are not attending to the system by running commands or...
In this article we will explain what TCP wrappers are and how to configure them to restrict access to network services running on a Linux server. Before we start, however, we must clarify that...
Normally, advanced users prefer to use and manage MySQL database management system from its command prompt, on the other side, this method has proved to be a great challenge for relatively new Linux users....
If you are planning on using phpmyadmin on a regular basis to manage your databases over the network (or worse, over the Internet!), you don’t want to use the root account. This is valid...
MySQL is the world’s most used open source database management system on the Linux ecosystem and at the same time Linux newbies find it difficult to manage from the MySQL prompt. PhpMyAdmin was created,...
To introduce this tip, let’s sniff the HTTP traffic between a client machine and the Debian 8 server where we have made the innocent mistake to login using the database root user’s credentials in...
By default, the login page of phpmyadmin is located at http://<ip address>/phpmyadmin. The first thing that you will want to do is changing that URL. This will not necessarily stop attackers from targeting your...
To overcome the limitations of and to increase the security mechanisms provided by standard ugo/rwx permissions and access control lists, the United States National Security Agency (NSA) devised a flexible Mandatory Access Control (MAC)...
Guys, if you are a regular reader of tecmint.com you will notice that this is our third article on security tools. In our previous two articles we have given you all the guidance in...
