The number of websites on the internet that enforces SSL, ie: HTTPS version of their websites are growing day by day, which a good thing as far as security is concerned. This claim is not without any proof. All major web browser statistics published online does indicate this fact. Checkout…
Apache and Nginx together contribute to at least 80 percent of the websites running on the entire internet. If you are a customer of a hosting service provider or a company, then also you are using Apache most of the time to run your website (because most of the hosting…
Internet is a very beautiful place to learn new things and gain information. As it has to provide information and access to anybody from anywhere in the globe, there was no other option, than to keep it wide open to all public. Although in the beginning (during its infancy period)…
Virtual Private Network is a norm these days in any architecture, where you enable access to your internal network to authorized employees and other associates. In this tutorial we will be discussing the working and configuration of one such VPN solution. Before getting inside the installation and configuration part we…
Actually I was writing a usual tutorial article for getting SSL VPN configured for clients to login using their key pairs. I was doing a little bit of research to make that article more accurate while I explain its working. And during that research I stumbled upon one interesting fact…
During the mid 90's (1995 to be precise) one researcher named Tatu Ylönen, at the university of Helsinki (Finland) designed a protocol, that eventually replaced all remote login programs. The primary objective behind Tatu Ylönen's design of the new protocol was to stop password sniffing attacks.…
We had several requests from our readers to include tutorials and articles about basic things like security in Linux and how to configure it. The problem is “Security in Linux” is a pretty big topic that covers different aspects and tools related to Linux. Most of the times security entirely…
The basic minimum security that any body can implement on a publicly exposed server is source address based or sometimes called as host based security. It is nothing but to allow your specified hosts or addresses to gain access, and block the rest. An attacker can even compromise a source…