Cyber Attacks Explained: Packet Spoofing
Last month, we started this series to cover the important cyber attacks that impact critical IT infrastructure in organisations. The first was the denial-of-service attack, which we discussed in detail. This month, we…
Cyber Attacks Explained: DoS and DDoS
With this article, we begin a new series on the major kinds of cyber attacks that weaken the IT security infrastructure within organisations. With the rapid spread of Internet technologies and applications, the…
Rootkits: The Enemy Within
While it was assumed in the past that viruses only targeted Windows, hackers targeting the FOSS world proved this wrong. A rootkit on a Linux distribution makes it vulnerable to programmatic and manual…
Best Practices in Network Security Monitoring
This article details the best practices organisations can follow to strengthen their network monitoring procedures, and also talks about a few FOSS products that help achieve this. It is imperative for an IT…
Securing Database Servers
With the ever-expanding data requirements for Web applications, database administrators often configure security parameters at the OS and database layer. Unfortunately, administrators seldom consider implementing security at a network layer to protect the…
February 3, 2012 montuviky — Away-some post will love to read all (and more :) )
February 1, 2012 Noufal — It is good to see, how the farmers are benefited from the open source. 
February 1, 2012 Douglas DSilva — Well Written Jalaja and happy to see that how the open source helps the local people. And I am more...
January 31, 2012 Metztli_IT — ♺ @schestowitz #GNU/ #Linux on POWER http://t.co/CByGKz87 taste of #IBM #RedHat #SuSE support on#POWER systems http://t.co/TXoNhNo2 #Watson
January 31, 2012 Fred Holahan — Excellent introductory article. What's really interesting about NewSQL is the rapid emergence of use cases from both "traditional economy"...