How to encrypt compressed files the easy way from Windows, macOS, or Linux
Learn to easily secure multiple documents by encrypting compressed files on Linux using a password.
Discover How To Harden My Filesystem HOWTOs
How to Create Backups with Fsarchiver on Linux
Learn how to create backups that can be restored on a filesystem smaller than the original one using Fsarchiver in this helpful tutorial.
How to encrypt files with gocryptfs on Linux
Looking to harden your Linux filesystem? Gocryptfs encrypts at the file level, so synchronization operations can work efficiently on each file. Learn more in this informative article:
Linux Security Administrator's Guide
This is a document that I last made modifications to in 1998, but is still pretty relevant. Topics covered include developing a security policy, network and host security tips, process accounting, physical security, intrusion detection, files and fil
UNIX Network Scanning
A bit of a shift towards UNIX for those looking to a get a different view of network scanning:
Discover how to scan your network for services and how to regularly monitor your services to keep uptimes to a maximum. A key way of ensuring the security of your network is to know what is on your network and what services individual machines are at risk of exposure. Unauthorized services, such as Web servers or file sharing solutions, not only degrade performance, but others can use these services as routes into your network. In this article, learn how to use these same techniques to ensure that genuine services remain available.
Take Control of your VPN Connections with Boot CD's
This will show you how to take boot CD's and make them hardened enough for what you need in any VPN application. From the introduction:
For several years now, users at the Institution where I currently work part-time have expressed a need for a robust and secure connection to the internal network. The internal network actually has some clients that are on private networks and some clients that are Internet-route-able.
Being mostly a Microsoft shop, the options that have been available were not deemed appropriate for various reasons, usually due to security concerns. After being introduced to the problem a few months ago and listening to the concerns surrounding it, I suggested using a boot CD, which would alleviate all of their security concerns. They gave me the go ahead to give it a try. I now have a working prototype and this document describes the process used to create it.
Lock-Down Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy-Gibbon
Ubuntu Gutsy-Gibbon on the brain? Looking to set up a solid defense with Intrusion Detection Snort, MySQL and more? HowToForge has a great guide from a contributor, Devilman:
In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure Snort (an intrusion detection system (IDS)) from source, BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine), MySQL, and Apache2 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Snort will assist you in monitoring your network and alert you about possible threats. Snort will output its log files to a MySQL database which BASE will use to display a graphical interface in a web browser.
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