Articles by Ahmad
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How to install OpenSC on IPFire Firewall
Author: Ahmad •
Tags: linux, security •
Comments: 1 In this tutorial, support for hardware tokens (such as smart cards) and their readers (CCID compliance) are integrated with the IPFire project. This article is the continuation of our previous work on IPFire firewall.
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StrongSwan based IPsec VPN using certificates and pre shared key on Ubuntu 16.04
Author: Ahmad •
Tags: linux, security, ubuntu •
Comments: 9 In this article, the strongSwan IPsec VPN will be installed on Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS), I will show the integration of OpenSC for hardware tokens and finally the creation of a gateway-to-gateway tunnel using a pre-shared key and x.509 certificates.
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Compilation and Installation of PSAD for IPFire Firewall
Author: Ahmad •
Tags: linux, security, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 This article is about compilation and installation of PSAD (Port Scan Attack Detector) for IPFire (Linux based firewall). However, a development environment for the IPFire will be setup for the compilation of new plugin (PSAD in this case).
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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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uTox installation on Ubuntu and Fedora Linux
Author: Ahmad •
Tags: desktop, fedora, linux, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 uTox is a lightweight client for the Tox software which connects users with friends and family over an insecure network. It supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android platforms. This tutorials shows the installation and setup of uTox on Ubuntu and Fedora.
