System administrators must be able to manage inbound and outbound network traffic as well as prevent unwelcome visitors. UNIX like systems offer several tools to successfully fulfill these tasks. TCP Wrappers is one of the oldest and this short article is trying to give you practical examples of its use.
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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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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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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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