Windows is no longer the system for mouse pushers. In the latest server version, the default installation installs without a GUI, and management via PowerShell is a part of everyday life for Windows administrators.

Once you have successfully exploited a target machine, you might be faced with a dilemma common among penetration testers: Do I have shell access or terminal access? These are not the same, and careful knowledge must be used when interacting with a shell compared with a terminal.

If you really want your evenings to belong to your job, you don’t need to depend on configuration management. But is all your overtime really necessary just to configure a server system? Configuration should just happen by magic these days; after all, we’ve had computers long enough to understand how to get it right.

In computer forensics, memory analysis is becoming increasingly important as a means for investigating security incidents. In this article, we provide an overview of the various memory dumping options on Linux and introduce the support in Linux for the Volatility Analysis Framework.

IPv6 includes Mobile IPv6, a new standard for communication with mobile devices, which ensures permanent accessibility regardless of your current location. In this article, we provide an overview of Mobile IPv6 functionality.

NIST has chosen the Keccak algorithm as the new cryptographic hash standard, but in real life, many users are still waiting to move to its predecessor, SHA-2.

Making your systems really secure can be a bit more complicated than resorting to the use of regular passwords. In this article, we provide an overview of authentication solutions and present potential approaches for common use cases.

Windows Firewall with Advanced Security was introduced in Vista/Windows Server 2008. Compared with the old Windows Firewall, it offers many new features and possibilities.

Hardly a day goes by without reports of hackers breaking into government, military, or enterprise servers. If you analyze the details of the hacker’s approach, you will see that, in 90 percent of all cases, SQL injection was the root cause of a server’s compromise.

Cron jobs are essential to managing Linux and Unix systems; however, the syntax is limited and prone to errors. A modern cron substitute – Whenjobs – sets out to remove these weaknesses.