Learn the Art of Linux Troubleshooting
Here are some valuable tips to help you find important system files in RHEL 5, which get deleted by accident. Everything seems fine when your Linux machine works just the way you want…
Cyber Attacks Explained: Packet Crafting
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 exploitation scenarios. This article takes a step forward…
Cyber Attacks Explained: Web Exploitation
Websites are no longer merely about having an “Internet presence” today, but are also used for commercial transactions and to transfer sensitive data. Such wide usage helps crackers gain more knowledge on vulnerabilities…
Top 10 Security Assessment Tools
Modern data centres deploy firewalls and managed networking components, but still feel insecure because of crackers. Hence, there is a crucial need for tools that accurately assess network vulnerability. This article brings you…
Cyber Attacks Explained: DNS Invasions
We often read about defaced websites whose pages get changed to some malicious content. How do hackers do it and how do we protect our infrastructure from them? This article is about how…
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…
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