Privacy – Carrier IQ fallout
According to its website, Carrier IQ claims that its software is deployed in more than 141 millions handsets. Many of the major carriers and handset makers preinstal
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Most prevalent automated web app attacks
Imperva (http://www.imperva.com ) isolated the four most prevalent Web application attacks:
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13Linux
Unblocking a host
Is your firewall blocking connection from a host and still you want to unblock the IP address of the remote host? Here is one way of doing it:
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14Linux
Block a host
Normally if you want to block all requests to and from an IP address, iptables is an ideal solution. A rule similar to this one would be handy
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15Linux
Handy commands
-List files opened by a program listening on a certain port (lsof -i:port)
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16Linux
Configuring proftpd behind NAT
If your ftp server is behind a NAT router, the regular ftps configuration steps you find in most tutorials in the Internet may not work for you. Hope these steps hel
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17Linux
Changing passphrase of a private key
It is not advisable to use password based login for ssh any more. One of the most secure ways of remote login through ssh is to use public key authentication. But in
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West African country Cameroon has the riskiest domain
Who would have thought, a country like Cameroon with barely 6 computers per 500 people (1.2 per 100 people) has the riskiest domain in the World? That is what McAfee
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