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
Based on the wonderful things you have heard about Nginx, perhaps you decided to give it a try. You may have liked it so much that are considering replacing your Apache installations with Nginx
Typically we all use SSH and FTP services often to access the remote servers and virtual private servers. As a Linux administrator, you must aware about how to block SSH and FTP access to
During this series we have explored in detail at least two access control methods: standard ugo/rwx permissions (Manage Users and Groups – Part 3) and access control lists (Configure ACL’s on File Systems –
A web server (also known as a HTTP server) is a service that handles content (most commonly web pages, but other types of documents as well) over to a client in a network. A
Encryption is the process of encoding files in such a way that only those who are authorized can access them. Mankind is using encryption for ages even when computers were not in existence. During
Have you ever encountered a situation when you missed your user account password on a Linux System? And the situation can be worse if you forgot the root password. You cannot perform any system
Websites are important parts of our lives. They serve the means to expand businesses, share knowledge and lots more. Earlier restricted to providing only static contents, with introduction of dynamic client and server side
LUKS acronym stands for Linux Unified Key Setup which is a widely method of disk-encryption used by Linux Kernel and is implemented with the cryptsetup package. The cryptsetup command line encrypts a volume disk
As a System Admin, our first priority will be to protect and secure data from unauthorized access. We all are aware of the permissions that we set using some helpful Linux commands like chmod,