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Tricking Intruders with HoneypotMe

A honeypot is a specialized security tool that pretends to be an ordinary system to attract and identify attackers. Experienced intruders, however, are not so easily fooled. An experimental new technology known as HoneypotMe moves honeypot functionality to real systems on the production network.

Increasing Throughput with Link Aggregation

For once, admins and users agree: They want more resiliency and higher bandwidth on the network. Link aggregation, in line with IEEE 802.1ax b-2008, offers both – with some minor restrictions.

Stopping Side Channel Attacks

Sometimes error messages or log entries are too verbose for their own good, disclosing valuable information to attackers.

Automation Scripting with PHP

PHP is a powerful scripting language that has built-in database connectivity, simple syntax, one of the world’s largest support groups, and respect in enterprise scripting circles. When you have a scripting problem, PHP is good for what ails you.

Secure Your Server with TCP Wrappers

TCP Wrappers are versatile, sophisticated, and surprisingly easy to use, and they can secure your servers from attack with run-time ACL reconfiguration.

Converting filesystems with Fstransform

Fstransform converts a filesystem without formatting the media or deleting any files.

Linux for Windows Admins: Samba Shuffle

Interoperability between *nix and Windows is always a problem for Windows Admins, but it doesn’t have to be. With a small effort, the two can comfortably share and share alike.

Server Virtualization with VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a popular virtualization choice on the desktop. In this article, we show how you can also run VirtualBox on a Linux server – with all the comforts of a graphical user interface.

Checking Compliance with OpenSCAP

Testing the system landscape for compliance requirements is not typically an administrator’s favorite task. The fairly new open source framework called OpenSCAP helps take some of the pain out of this chore.

Netcat – The Admin’s Best Friend

With the seemingly unlimited number of Linux packages available today in repositories, sometimes it’s easy to get lost and miss out on the really high quality packages – those that offer the most impressive functionality.