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Use the Built-in Security Features in Your FOSS Distro

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When it comes to securing network infrastructure, the trend is to invest in commercial-grade appliances. Sadly, security designers tend to ignore the built-in security...

Cyber Attacks Explained: Packet Crafting

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  Protect your FOSS-based IT infrastructure from packet crafting by learning more about it. In the previous articles in this series, we explored common infrastructure vulnerability...

Cyber Attacks Explained: Network Sniffing

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In earlier articles in this series, we have explored denial of service attacks and packet spoofing. This month, let us focus on a wider...

Rootkits: The Enemy Within

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While it was assumed in the past that viruses only targeted Windows, hackers targeting the FOSS world proved this wrong. A rootkit on a...

Best Practices in Network Security Monitoring

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This article details the best practices organisations can follow to strengthen their network monitoring procedures, and also talks about a few FOSS products that...

Securing Apache, Part 8: DoS & DDoS Attacks

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In this part of the series, we focus on DoS/DDoS attacks, which have been among the major threats to Web servers since the beginning...

Advanced Nmap: FIN Scan & OS Detection

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Nmap is a fantastic tool, and I just can't refrain from praising it, every time I use it. The earlier articles in this series...

The Importance of Intrusion Prevention Systems

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In today's fast-changing IT world, even the best available security is insufficient for the latest vulnerabilities in various products, and against malware/attacks created to...

Metasploit: The Exploit Framework for Penetration Testers

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Today, the Metasploit Framework is considered the single most useful auditing tool that is freely available to security professionals and penetration testers. It has...

Securing Apache, Part 1: The Basics

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Targeted at readers with Web security concerns, information security experts, systems administrators and all those who want to jump-start their careers in Web security,...