Linux Web Filtering in 7 steps at HackITLinux

How to install a transparent Squid proxy server with real-time HTTP virus scanning on Mandrake 10.0 using DansGuardian and ClamAV? People quickly and easily access volumes of research on the Internet and correspond with a mouse click. For more and more companies, content filtering is part of the large battle to combat all kinds of online threats, including hackers, worms and viruses. Linux content filtering allows administrators to configure and [...] Read More


Step by Step Installation of a Secure Linux Web, DNS and Mail Server at HackITLinux

This paper will show how the author configured a Linux based web and e-mail server for a small company. This server is co-located at a local ISP.Because of budget limitations, the company can only locate one physical box at the ISP which limits what security measures that can be installed. The author will seek to explain the choices made. The paper will include instructions on how to build a secure [...] Read More


What is the Linux Kernel? at HackITLinux

The Linux Kernel is the center of what makes the Linux and Unix operating systems. The kernel is the foreman or mediator over all your programs and hardware components. As the core of the operating system, the kernel has access to certain services that interact with the systems hardware which no other program has direct access to. If a program wants to carry out a special task, then it must [...] Read More


Linux Makes Windows Super Secure at The Gadgets Weblog

Hypothetical situation: you're a company with a lot of trade secrets and a lot of road warriors with laptops, that go to many, many places with Internet connections with less than optimal security. The people who operate these laptops aren't geeks by any stretch of the imagination, or even if they are, they aren't exactly up on the latest trends in hacking, so someone ends up hacking into their computer, [...] Read More


Linux ain't Linux at The CIO Weblog

Although Linux devotees, by virtue of their oppressed minority status in the enterprise software market, have been forced to band together in the public sphere and make common cause against the dark forces of proprietary, closed-source software. All this merry singing and hand-holding has eclipsed the fact, to the general public, that in fact there are quite a number of different permutations of Linux out there, each with its own [...] Read More