0 Weekend Project: Intrusion Detection on Linux with AIDE

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0 Foil Firesheep and other Nuisances on Linux

You've probably heard a lot about Firesheep, the Firefox extension that exposes user credentials and allows almost anyone to take over an account on Facebook, Twitter, and many other sites with a few clicks. But what do you do to defeat it? Read on, and you'll be able to foil Firesheep in no time. A lot of Web sites use cookies to store authentication information. You'll log in via an HTTPS ...

0 Understanding the Stable Linux Kernel

Will we have a new kernel by Christmas? I remember wondering that back in 1998 when 2.2 was on the horizon. Things have changed quite a bit since then in kernel development, and with Greg Kroah-Hartman's announcement last week about changes in the stable kernel release procedure, it's a good time to look at how the stable tree works.   A Little Backstory Kernel development hasn't always ...

0 Weekend Project: Set Up Safe Guest Wi-Fi with Linux

The holiday season is upon us, and you know what that means: relatives coming over wanting to use your WiFi. If you'd like to find a solution somewhere between "run an open, unsecured AP" and "hand out your WPA2 password to people who write things like that down on sticky notes" then setting up a captive portal is a convenient option. There are several open source captive portals to choose ...

0 Five Tips for Successful Linux Deployments

Linux deployments still carry high expectations. Before pushing the button on that Linux deployment, make sure you have all the bases covered, and we have a few tips to help save the day. You could, and some have, write a book on deploying Linux. Here we have a few tips to help ensure that your Linux deployment is a successful start to a long relationship with Linux in your organization. RTFMThe ...

0 Interactive Terminal Greeting

Anyway, I'm not going to elaborate on basic terminal command(s)...you can learn more about that from here --> Unix Toolbox I wanted to make a very short tutorial about how you can make terminal more interactive & fun to work in. Well if you're ...

0 Upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 Desktop and Server

  With the release yesterday of Ubuntu 10.10, on 10/10/10, I decided to put together a brief tutorial on how to upgrade your Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop or Server to the lastest version, Ubuntu 10.10. Before beginning, there's a few things we expect ...