Keeping safe
Category: Security
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...
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 …
Privacy: What You Need To Know
Here is how it works. Researcher and social psychologist, Dr. Cazzell (Stanford, Queensland, BYU, Yale), excellently described this in her Behavioral Economics article with the Game of Clue. Here is how it works: When you …
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, …
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Catching up with ClassicPress
In our previous article published late last year, “ClassicPress Beta is now available – should we adopt it?“, we took a look at the new WordPress fork called ClassicPress, which essentially provides a normal WordPress …
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 Blockchain Could End Identity Theft on Dark Web
We feel that our personal data is very important and priceless. However, the reality is very different. Stolen credit card information, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers are sold on the dark web for as …
Understanding UFW
I have always been scared of IP tables. If you want to know the reason check out the man page for the same. Though I have heard from many people that IPtables are more robust …
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 …
How Did Russian Hackers Phish America’s Power Grid?
The kill chain, the phishing attack and the broken trust graph The Wall Street Journal published an explosive story about how state-sponsored Russian hackers used a variety of techniques and a spider web of compromised accounts …
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 …
Who’s Really Behind the World’s Most Popular Free VPNs?
After big names like Whatsapp, Snapchat, and Facebook, VPNs are the most searched-for applications in the world. “VPN” is the second-highest non-branded search term behind “games”, and free apps completely dominate the search results. The …
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 …
This Company Wants to Use the Blockchain to Stop Phishing
Phishing just won’t go away. Nearly three-quarters of organizations polled by security company Proofpoint saw phishing attacks last year. Sometimes attackers are able to fool even security-savvy users. A company called MetaCert is trying to …
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 …