Keeping safe
Category: Security
What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
Not so long ago, stories about cyberwar started with scary hypotheticals: What if state-sponsored hackers were to launch widespread attacks that blacked out entire cities? Crippled banks and froze ATMs across a country? Shut down …
NGINX Updates Mitigate the August 2019 HTTP/2 Vulnerabilities
Today we are releasing updates to NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus in response to the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in many implementations of HTTP/2. We strongly recommend upgrading all systems that have HTTP/2 enabled. In …
How to Install and Use Tor Network in Your Web Browser
Privacy Online is becoming a big deal and concerned Internet users are continuously looking for effective methods or tools for surfing the web anonymously for one reason or the other. By surfing anonymously, no can …
Ask NGINX | April 2019
Every month, we take a moment to share the expertise of our team, and answer a number of great questions we’ve received from both our customers and open source users. These questions range from how …
Protecting SSL Private Keys in NGINX with HashiCorp Vault
In the first post in this series, we describe several approaches to improving the security of your SSL private keys. The post finished with a demonstration of a remote password distribution point (PDP) used to …
How to Install Memcached (Caching Server) on CentOS 7
Memcached is an open source distributed memory object caching program that allows us to improve and speed up the performance of dynamic web applications by caching data and objects in Memory. Memcached is also used …
How to Setup Two Factor Authentication for SSH on Fedora
Every day there seem to be lots of security breaches reported where our data is at danger. Despite the fact that SSH is a secure way to establish a connection remotely to a Linux system, …
How to Generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) in Linux
SSL Certificates fall into two broad categories: 1) Self-Signed Certificate which is an identity certificate that is signed by the same entity whose identity it certifies-on signed with its own private key, and 2) Certificates …
How to Check Integrity With AIDE in Fedora
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a program for checking the integrity of a file and directory on any modern Unix-like system. It creates a database of files on the system, and then uses that …
Best Password Manager: LastPass vs Dashlane vs Bitwarden vs 1Password
Looking for the best password manager to keep your login credentials safe? If you’re reading this post, you probably don’t need me to tell you that it’s a scary world out there when it comes …
5 of the Best Online Cloud Backup Services to Keep Your Data Safe in 2019
Looking for a safe place to back up and store all your digital data? This post will help you get started. Here, we’ll look closely at five of the best online cloud backup services to …
Tiger – The Unix Security Audit and Intrusion Detection Tool
Tiger is a free, open source collections of shell scripts for security audit and host intrusion detection, for Unix-like systems such as Linux. It’s a security checker written entirely in shell language and employs various …
Firejail – Securely Run Untrusted Applications in Linux
Sometimes you may want to use applications that have not been well tested in different environments, yet you must use them. In such cases, it is normal to be concerned about the security of your …
Website Speed Optimization: How to Do It in 2019
Over the last few years, there has been an increase in the average page size. In fact, in 2018, on an average, a page size was more than 2 MB! A significant part of this page …
How to Configure and Use PAM in Linux
Linux-PAM (short for Pluggable Authentication Modules which evolved from the Unix-PAM architecture) is a powerful suite of shared libraries used to dynamically authenticate a user to applications (or services) in a Linux system. It integrates …
Data Breaches: The Complete WIRED Guide
Another week, another massive new corporate security breach that exposes your personal data. Names, email addresses, passwords, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, credit card numbers, banking data, passport numbers, phone numbers, home addresses, driver’s …
How to Access a Remote Server Using a Jump Host
A jump host (also known as a jump server) is an intermediary host or an SSH gateway to a remote network, through which a connection can be made to another host in a dissimilar security …
How to Install, Configure and Use Firewalld in CentOS and Ubuntu
Firewalld (firewall daemon) is an alternative to the iptables service, for dynamically managing a system’s firewall with support for network (or firewall) zones and provides a D-Bus interface for managing configurations. It’s easy to use …
5 of the Best VPN Services for WordPress Users (Or Anyone Else, Too!)
In this post, we compare the 5 best VPN services for WordPress users (or really anyone else). That is, while we’ll focus on how VPNs can help WordPress users, most of the things that make …
WordPress Activity Log – 7 Things You Should Be Tracking
When your WordPress website is small, it’s easy to keep tabs on everything that happens within it. However, as it grows in size and complexity it can become a lot harder to keep up. This …