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30.11.2025
If you want to keep one step ahead of the attackers, it is a good idea to identify and remove potential vulnerabilities and security holes on your network. The popular Nmap port scanner scans your ... You need to lock doors to keep criminals out. Intelligent tools such as port and security scanners reveal potential vulnerabilities and help you keep the computers on your network safe from attackers.
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30.11.2025
The SMB Traffic Analyzer (SMBTA) tool is implemented as a VFS module that allows a Samba/CIFS server to record traffic statistics on a Samba network. The SMBTA daemon stores this information ... The SMB Traffic Analyzer is a VFS module that supports real-time analysis of data throughput on the SMB network. It includes analysis tools but also can use the RRDtool for visualization.
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30.11.2025
With the release of Nessus 5 configuration vulnerability scanning tool by Tenable Network Security, users now have better filtering, analysis, and reporting, as well as faster scanning time. The Metasploit Nessus ... The powerful Metasploit framework helps you see your network as an intruder would see it. You might discover it is all too easy to get past your own defenses.
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30.11.2025
Experienced administrators tend to use tools such as ps, vmstat, or the like when they need statistics for individual subsystems such as the network, memory, or block I/O. These tools can help ... Does your application data take ages to creep off your disk or your network card, even if no noticeable activity is taking place? Tools such as OProfile and SystemTap help you find out why.
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30.11.2025
-based approach alone is not sufficient to ensure reliable detection of all current malware.
New Methods
To detect the propagation of this kind of malware on monitored networks, other detection methods ... technology known as HoneypotMe moves honeypot functionality to real systems on the production network.
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30.11.2025
Whether you need more storage space for your users or for a server, setting up network attached storage (NAS) is a popular approach. NAS is cheaper than a storage area network (SAN ... Set up your own network attached storage system with minimum effort with the help of FreeNAS. Thanks to the ZFS filesystem, you have more flexible storage, which you can also provide via iSCSI.
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During reconnaissance, intruders gather information from public sources to learn about the target: the nature of the business, the technical infrastructure, architecture, products, and network ... Professional attackers have much more pointed at your site than just Nmap, and you should too if you want to test your network's security. We'll show you some tools intruders use to gather
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, is "Yes" and "No."
"Yes" because complex passwords prevent a hacker from guessing your password either across the network or locally on a system. Random password guesses result in account lockout after ... "Easy to remember but difficult to guess" isn't just a catchy phrase for choosing passwords, it's the law of the Net. Learn how to check your password using a tool network intruders use every day
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30.11.2025
Linux Magazine: Tell us a little bit about yourself – how did you get started as a developer?
Ethan Galstad: I started as a network and systems administrator. I went to the University of Minnesota ... Magazine Brazilian edition and told us a bit about the history of Nagios – perhaps one of the most successful stories in open source network software.
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30.11.2025
Our Admin special edition was so popular we're back, with a new quarterly magazine that is all for admins. Welcome to the first issue of Admin: Network and Security – a magazine for administrators
