Network admins must scan for security vulnerabilities and patch them promptly to prevent attacks and security breaches. Metasploit is an open-source framework for detecting threats and vulnerabilities.
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This CERT document gives home users an overview of the security risks and countermeasures associated with Internet connectivity, especially in the context of 'always-on' or broadband access services (such as cable modems and DSL).
This document describes how to set up your Linux server to limit download bandwidth or incoming traffic and how to use your internet link more efficiently. This is useful when our internet link is slow or our LAN users download tons of mp3s and the n
Many of my past newsletters have detailed configuration setups that required you to be able to execute commands on remote machines without interactively supplying a password. The next few articles will help show how you can set up such a system.
This handbook is meant to be a practical guide to auditing Unix. It will be kept as up-to-date as possible. The commands and filenames given here are applicable to a Sun Solaris system. However, there are cross-command references for AIX and Linux.
This talk describes what are the basic security functionalities under Unix needed to build privilege separation and how to use them to design more secure applications.
Debates still rage in the developer community over which methods of detecting attackers are best, but IDS customers as a whole are satisfied with the current IDS technology. To get an edge on the competition, many of the IDS vendors are adding active
This article is the first part of a four-part series that will offer an overview of LIDS. This installment will offer an introduction to LIDS, including how it works, booting LIDS, sealing the kernel, and configuring LIDS.
This documentation is the second of a two-part series that will offer an overview of network-based intrusion detection and false reports. This installment will offer a brief overview of NIDS devices and will examine how and why false reports take pla
This documentation discusses how one can correctly creat a network security policy. This document is divided into three areas: preparation, prevention, and response.
