Jail in FreeBSD is utility which imprisons a process and all future descendants. This was the theory. But what is the reality of jails, why we should use them and how successfully set them up will be the core of this article.
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Have you ever forgotten the password to your BIOS? Have you ever had your laptop stolen but you were calm with consciousness that you have the BIOS secured by password so your data cannot be compromised? Are you sure that there is no way to bypass BIOS password settings? This post will bring you bit other look at BIOS security and password recovery possibilities.
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Most people don’t distinguish between terms anonymity and privacy but it’s a big mistake! The meaning of each is quite different and mixing them can lead at least to dissapointment, in worse cases to fatal consequences. So, let’s take a closer look what you can expect if anonymity and privacy seem to be the same for you.
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a communications protocol for the transfer of information on intranets and the World Wide Web. Its original purpose was to provide a way to publish and retrieve hypertext pages over the Internet. HTTP is a request/response standard between a client and a server. A client is the end-user, the server is the web site. In this short article you can find Numeric Order List of HTTP/1.1 Reply Codes as a reference. All codes in the table are linked to other articles which describe specific response code deeper.
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As we know Backtrack 2.0 is leading IT Security Auditing Toolset used by security and penetration specialists worldwide. This very usefull Linux distribution facilitates your auditing tasks dramatically. However, there are some settings or configurations necessary to run Backtrack 2.0 properly. This article contains some notes and tips to save your time while setting up this cool system features.
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The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet and most commercial networks run. It has also been referred to as the TCP/IP protocol suite, which is named after two of the most important protocols in it: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), which were also the first two networking protocols defined. Class Ranges, Special Ranges and Bit-Wise Representation of TCP/IP Network Classes are stated here for quick reference purposes.
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PHP Fatal Error: Call to undefined function utf8_encode() error message balked me to run new installation of web software. Why and how to get rid of this error is described in this post.
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FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging files over any TCP/IP based network to manipulate files on another computer on that network regardless of which operating systems are involved (if the computers permit FTP access). There are many existing FTP client and server programs. FTP servers can be set up anywhere between game servers, voice servers, internet hosts, and other physical servers. This article presents Numeric Order List of FTP Reply Codes for quick reference purposes.
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What are FTP status codes assemblied of, what are their meaning and other details of FTP service replies describes this post.
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BackTrack (previously SecurityAuditor) is without discussion one of the coolest and helpfull IT Security Auditing Toolset ever. This live linux distribution can be regularly installed on a harddrive but there are small detailes which are on other hand very important to successfully install version 2.0 of this system.
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