Linux Tutorials on the topic “security”
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Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Ubuntu 12.10)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: security, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Ubuntu 12.10) EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Ubuntu 12.10 to encrypt your data.
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Blocking Facebook Web Trackers At The Firewall For Extra Privacy
Author: orange • Tags: security • Comments: 12Blocking Facebook Web Trackers At The Firewall For Extra Privacy If you've spent any time examining the network traffic to and from your web browser, you will notice the prolific number of trackers embedded in the pages. There are some add-ons to the web browsers that aid in privacy, but it is simple enough to block the rogue sites at the firewall.
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How To Secure Apache2 With LinOTP
Author: cornelinux •
Tags: apache, security, debian, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 2 How To Secure Apache2 With LinOTP This Howto describes the way to set up two factor authentication with one time passwords for Apache2. We assume, that you have already set up your LinOTP server. You can download Debian and Ubuntu packages or you can install the system using the Python Package Index. It provides a good quick start to get the service up and running for demo purposes (check for the latest version).
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How To Set Up OpenVPN To Authenticate With LinOTP
Author: cornelinux • Tags: security • Comments: 2How To Set Up OpenVPN To Authenticate With LinOTP This howto will show you the way to set up OpenVPN to authenticate users against the LinOTP authentication backend. Thus you can bring up your VPN using two factor authentication with different kind of OTP tokens. The interesting part is, that we will also use client certificates, so that the VPN only gets established if the machine has the right client certificate and the user has the right OTP token.
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How To Set Up An IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) On Fedora 17
Author: inliniac •
Tags: fedora, security •
Comments: 1 How To Set Up An IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) On Fedora 17 Vuurmuur is a linux firewall manager. It takes a human readable rule syntax and turns it into the proper iptables commands. It supports logviewing, traffic shaping, connection killing and a lot of other features. Suricata is a relatively new network IDS/IPS. It's multithreaded for performance, supports IDS and IPS modes, can extract files from HTTP streams and has a lot of other features. Fedora 17 includes both Vuurmuur and Suricata in its repository. In this howto I'll describe how to get a functional IPS using only Fedora packages.
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Chrooting Apache2 With mod_chroot On OpenSUSE 12.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, security, suse, web server •
Comments: 0 Chrooting Apache2 With mod_chroot On OpenSUSE 12.2 This guide explains how to set up mod_chroot with Apache2 on an OpenSUSE 12.2 system. With mod_chroot, you can run Apache2 in a secure chroot environment and make your server less vulnerable to break-in attempts that try to exploit vulnerabilities in Apache2 or your installed web applications.
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Adding Two-Factor Authentication To OpenVPN AS With The WiKID Strong Authentication Server
Author: nowen • Tags: security • Comments: 0Adding Two-Factor Authentication To OpenVPN AS With The WiKID Strong Authentication Server Pairing WiKID with two-factor authentication and OpenVPN AS is a great cost-effective solution to secure your network for minimal expense. I downloaded the RPM Version of OpenVPN Access Server and dropped the RPM onto a Centos VM. I had previously configured a WiKID two-factor authentication server using our Enterprise ISO. The OpenVPN server configures itself on install and directs you to change the password for the openvpn user and directs you to the Openvpn AS web interface.
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Install Anti-Spam Firewall for any email server in 30 minutes
Author: mariusgologan •
Tags: antivirus, debian, security, ubuntu •
Comments: 11 Install Anti-Spam Firewall for any server in 30 minutes • Designed for Linux and Windows email system administrators, Scrollout F1 is a free anti-spam and anti-virus email firewall (gateway) for multiple domains and email servers, with DLP for outgoing messages filtering Excel, Word, PDF and image files (archived or hidden). This document describes how to install Scrollout F1 from scratch, on a fresh Ubuntu Server or Debian. The installation is easy. Even if you are a newbie in Linux there is not much room for errors. Estimated time: 30 minutes.Includes a video tutorial as an alternative to this article.
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Configure An Email Gateway With Scrollout F1 Anti-Spam & DLP
Author: mariusgologan •
Tags: antivirus, debian, email, security, ubuntu •
Comments: 5 Configure An Email Gateway With Scrollout F1 Anti-Spam & DLP An email gateway (a.k.a. firewall) is a machine (physical or virtual) installed between Internet and the email server. Its primary role is to protect the email server by filtering incoming messages, via SMTP protocol, from Internet. Secondary, an email gateway may be used as an outgoing gateway in case you want to add some new email features which are not provided by older email servers. For instance, Exchange 2000 or 2003 has no DKIM signing and verification service – a quality improvement for message delivery. This tutorial shows how to configure an email gateway with the Scrollout F1 email gateway.Basic configuration covered by video tutorial.
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Managing Multiple MySQL Servers From One phpMyAdmin Installation (Using SSL Encryption)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: mysql, security, debian, ubuntu •
Comments: 7 Managing Multiple MySQL Servers From One phpMyAdmin Installation (Using SSL Encryption) This tutorial explains how you can manage multiple MySQL servers from one phpMyAdmin installation. For security reasons, communication between phpMyAdmin and any remote MySQL server is using SSL encryption (this is not necessary for a local MySQL server since communication between phpMyAdmin and MySQL is not leaving the server). phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL.
