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Magnet Goblin Hackers Exploit One-Day Flaws to Deploy Custom Linux Malware

Financially motivated hacking groups are increasingly exploiting newly disclosed vulnerabilities to deploy custom malware on public-facing servers. The threat actors are known as Magnet Goblin, and they have been quick to leverage one-day flaws, vuln...
Mar 11, 2024
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New Bifrost Malware Evades Detection, Threatens Linux Server Security

A new variant of Bifrost, a remote access Trojan (RAT),...
Mar 02, 2024
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Cryptocurrency Mining Migo Malware Attacks Linux Redis Servers

A new malware dubbed “Migo” that is targeting Linux Red...
Feb 21, 2024
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Surfing Between the Flags: Security on the Web

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This paper examines internet security with respect to the WWW. A number of WWW security issues are presented in three areas: server, client and communication between server and client. Practical precautions and solutions are suggested regarding these issues. Guidelines for protecting host systems are discussed.. . .

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High Performance Web Caching With Squid

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Squid is an excellent open source web caching proxy package, but it requires quite a lot of tuning to achieve the kind of performance seen in commercial proxies. This article presents several independently useful ideas for tuning a web caching system. . . .

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Using Postfix for Secure SMTP Gateways

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This article is intended to bring you up to speed quickly on how to use postfix on your network as a secure means of receiving e-mail from and delivering it to Internet hosts. In particular we'll focus on deploying postfix on firewalls, in DMZs and in other settings in which it will be exposed to contact with untrusted systems.. . .

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Nasty Denial-Of-Service Tool On Network Hosts

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A computer-security company is warning network administrators to watch out for new rogue software capable of playing the role of foot soldier in denial-of-service attacks against Internet servers. X-Force, the research-and-development arm of Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems Inc., reported Tuesday that . . .

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How to perform a secure remote backup

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What do you do when your site is attacked or your system fails? Backup, Avi Rubin argues, is the most reliable way to ensure that what you've lost can be recovered. Here he takes a look at protecting your backup and recommends some products that can help. . . .

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Securing Linux Mandrake

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As Linux Mandrake works it's way away from it's Red Hat roots, they've added a number of features "out of the box" that make it easier to use as a server. However, there are still a number of things that I . . .

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Apache Guide: Apache Authentication, Part II

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There are basically three reasons to use a database, rather than a text file, to store data. The first reason is speed. Accessing data stored in a database is much faster than accessing data stored in a text file. A database is designed for rapid location of information. A text file, you have to read through each record until you find what you are looking for.. . .

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Maximizing Apache Server Security

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An extensive article on Apache security. ... However, does "free" come at a price when it comes to security? It doesn't have to. The diligent network manager will quickly recognize the advantages of choosing a platform that is field-tested on . . .

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Smart card accepted at portal

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Pulsar Data Systems Inc. on Tuesday unveiled its secure e-commerce portal, PulsarData.com, which uses smart cards to enable agencies to purchase information technology products. Pulsar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Internet data security company Litronic Inc., announced the smart card feature, . . .

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Unix Security Holes

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The hottest trend these days in network intrusion is to exploit buffer overruns, a technique where-by you feed a program more data than it has allocated, overwriting the memory in the hope of making the program do something it would normally . . .

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