Keeping safe
Category: Security
The plot to revive Mt. Gox and repay victims’ Bitcoin
It was the Lehman Brothers of blockchain. 850,000 Bitcoin disappeared when cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox imploded in 2014 after a series of hacks. The incident cemented the industry’s reputation as frighteningly insecure. Now a controversial crypto celebrity named Brock Pierce is trying to get the Mt. Gox flameout’s 24,000 victims their money back and build a […]
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...
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...
911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
911 emergency services in several states across the U.S. remain down after a massive outage at a CenturyLink data center. The outage began after 12pm ET on Thursday, according to CenturyLink’s status page, and continues to cause disruption across 911 call centers. Some states have seen their services restored. CenturyLink has not said what caused the […]
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...
How to Enforce Secure Passwords on Your WordPress Website
We’re willing to bet that you probably know all about using secure passwords for your WordPress admin account. However, you can’t take for granted that other users will do the same. To make sure your …
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...
5 of the Best VPN Services for WordPress Users (Or Anyone Else, Too!)
In this post, we compare the 5 best VPN services for WordPress users (or really anyone else). That is, while we’ll focus on how VPNs can help WordPress users, most of the things that make a VPN good for WordPress users make it good for regular folks, too.
Announcing the vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide
Back in March I released the vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide (a.k.a “The SCG”). At that time, I went in to detail on more than just the guide. I covered the topic of why some guidelines are removed or changed. I also covered how more settings were set to “secure by default” now
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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...
Are Dating Apps Killing Romance?
Swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe… This sums up dating apps today. Endless swiping leading to a few matches, then less matches you decide to have a meaningful conversation with and eventually one or two people you …