Articles by Ahmad

• PSAD installation and configuration on Debian 8 (Jessie)

  Author: Ahmad • Tags: debian, linux, security, server • Comments: 2

  In this tutorial, I will show you the installation and configuration of the PSAD (Port Scan Attack Detection) tool on Debian 8 (Jessie). PSAD provides intrusion detection and log-analysis with IPtables (Linux firewall).

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• Passwordless encryption of the Linux root partition on Debian 8 with an USB key

  Author: Ahmad • Tags: debian, linux, security • Comments: 9

  In this article, an encrypted partition is opened using a secret key which is kept in an usb memory device. An automatic shell script is used to provide a secret key for encrypted volume at boot time.

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