Whilst this may sound like a marketing blurb coming from Mark Cox, the Director of the Red Hat Security Response Team, but it sure would encourage you try it out yourself.

A default installation of E…

WebDAV is probably one of the least used utilities available to developers and content managers. Personally, I got familiar with WebDAV only thru Apple's Mac OS X. Anyway, it is far easier and mor…

You may belong to a majority of netizens who have problems keeping tab of secure passwords for different on-line services, may it be web-based email, forum, blog, or whatever that requires you to ente…

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Prof. Emery Berger, Ph.D., of the Computer Science department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, released DieHard for Windows, Linux and Solaris. DieHard is supported by the US National Scien…

We all know that Linux is one of the most secure modern operating systems available in the market today. However, it is still possible to improve or "harden" its security and this is where B…

Here are a few tips I found that could be useful

Let's get to the important part first – if you've just lost your data, skip past this introduction and go directly to our first tip, so you ca…

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How to install a transparent Squid proxy server with real-time HTTP virus scanning on Mandrake 10.0 using DansGuardian and ClamAV?

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About hardening (securing)
For hardening activities to be most successful, you should:

Do hardening activities before the system is connected to the network to avoid attacks.
Base configuration on …