Proxies are a standard component of a Linux administrator's toolbox. You can use them to see how services respond in various locations, to run route monitoring checks, and to retrieve public data for internal tooling. However, a proxy is an outbound ...
Before the week gets away from you, take a look at what's landed across the Linux ecosystem.
The volume of security advisories hasn't slowed, and while not every update demands an emergency maintenance window, several deserve to move to the to...
Linux systems generate a steady stream of authentication, service, kernel, and application logs. On most systems, those logs never leave the machine that created them. If you're responsible for ten or twenty servers, that means checking each one sepa...
When you’re digging through an incident, your logs are the only thing you can actually trust. The problem is, attackers know that too. If someone gets root on your server, their first move is almost always to delete the evidence and cover their track...
When an attacker breaks into a Linux system, their work is rarely done. Usually, the real work starts after the initial exploit: hiding their tracks. If you’re a Linux admin or security analyst, there is nothing worse than logging in, running a few c...
One of the easiest mistakes to make in detection engineering is assuming a rule keeps working simply because nobody has touched it. Most of the time, nobody removes the rule. Nobody disables it. It just gets forgotten.
Docker makes containers feel like separate, lightweight virtual machines. They have their own hostnames, processes, and networking—but are they actually isolated? Many administrators assume they are without ever verifying the boundaries. If you’ve ev...