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Included here is information that can be added to your sendmail configuration to protect your internal users from the ILOVEYOU worm from spreading, as well as more information from this bugtraq post. Be sure to note that variations . . . . Included here is information that can be added to your sendmail configuration to protect your internal users from the ILOVEYOU worm from spreading, as well as more information from this bugtraq post. Be sure to note that variations are already appearing. This bugtraq post points out a variation, as well as a procmail filter, filters for Postfix, ideas from Sendmail.com, and other great information to put this damn thing to rest. The link for this article located at Jose Nazario / bugtraq is no longer available. . Protect your sendmail setup against the ILOVEYOU worm by modifying MIME settings, filtering attachments, enhancing access control, and educating users. sendmail configurations, ILOVEYOU worm, email security measures. . Anthony Pell
Fifteen years ago, you weren't a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy. Instant messaging was in its infancy and creating an online presence required no small familiarity with HTML (though automated Web design programs did exist).. Master essential techniques to establish a robust and fortified web server, guaranteeing the safety of your online identity.. Web Server Setup, Security Practices, Safe Configuration. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
A site for reviews and Linux, Piotr over at Polishlinux.org took a chance to review EnGarde Community for servers. A nice, quick overview of install, configuration, and how to test EnGarde from one computer. The site itself is a great resource for understanding how to compare, assess and choose the best distribution for you. SO make sure to check out their Distro chooser, a great little quiz that takes your preferences and recommends the best distro based on your answers. A nice resource as well. Check it out!. The link for this article located at https://polishlinux.org/ is no longer available. . The link for this article located at https://polishlinux.org/ is no longer available.. reviews, linux, piotr, polishlinux, chance, review, engarde, communit. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Every self-respecting Linux guru should be familiar with firewalls and how to install and configure them. With this in mind, Linux gurus also should be curious about how firewalls function and how to build a firewall of his or her own. . . .. Every self-respecting Linux guru should be familiar with firewalls and how to install and configure them. With this in mind, Linux gurus also should be curious about how firewalls function and how to build a firewall of his or her own. Explaining exactly these two things is the goal of this article. Here, we attempt to write a firewall in less than 60 lines of C code. As impossible as this may sound, it actually is quite simple to do using the power of Linux kernel modules and Netfilter. Netfilter is a packet filtering subsystem in the Linux kernel stack and has been there since kernel 2.4.x. Netfilter's core consists of five hook functions declared in linux/netfilter_ipv4.h. Although these functions are for IPv4, they aren't much different from those used in the IPv6 counterpart. The hooks are used to analyze packets in various locations on the network stack. The link for this article located at Linux Journal is no longer available. . Learn how to build a personal firewall in Linux using Netfilter with this sample C code that blocks incoming connections on a specified port. Linux Firewall, Netfilter Setup, Packet Filtering, Network Security Guide. . Anthony Pell
This is the second in a series of articles about how to install and configure the Cyrus IMAP mail server, Postfix SMTP, and Procmail for server-side mail filtering. Last week, we covered the installation and basic configuration for Cyrus IMAP.. . .. This is the second in a series of articles about how to install and configure the Cyrus IMAP mail server, Postfix SMTP, and Procmail for server-side mail filtering. Last week, we covered the installation and basic configuration for Cyrus IMAP. Assuming you have Cyrus configured properly, there's one more thing you may need to do to get the IMAP server running. You need to start the authenticating agent pwcheck and restart the inetd Internet super-server. This should be as easy as the following commands, or something like them (depending on your distribution): The link for this article located at LinuxWorld is no longer available. . Uncover the steps to configure the Cyrus IMAP server paired with Postfix SMTP in this detailed tutorial.. Cyrus IMAP, Postfix SMTP, Procmail, mail filtering, server configuration. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Amanda is the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, developed at the University of Maryland in the 1990s. While it is now maintained at SourceForge and support is provided only through mailing lists and a FAQ-O-MATIC, it is still a highly . . . . Amanda is the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, developed at the University of Maryland in the 1990s. While it is now maintained at SourceForge and support is provided only through mailing lists and a FAQ-O-MATIC, it is still a highly useful, stable network backup utility with a wide range of features. Amanda is tailored for networks that have a central server with a high-capacity tape drive and multiple backup clients. Although Amanda was built for UNIX systems, it has been extended to provide backup services to Windows clients (via Samba, although a separate project is underway to develop a native Windows client) to allow deployment in heterogeneous environments. In this article, I will review the installation and configuration process for Amanda and show how to tailor it to some of the potential environments it may be used in. The environment for this implementation consists of a Pentium II 350-MHz system running Slackware 8.0 and an Exabyte 8505 tape drive as the server, and clients including OpenBSD 2.8 and Red Hat Linux 7.1. The link for this article located at SysAdmin is no longer available. . Explore Amanda's installation and configuration for effective multi-platform backup solutions. Amanda Backup Utility, Data Recovery Solutions, Network Management Tools. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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