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Beginners Guide to SSL Certificates

Posted by Admin on 27th August 2010

This VeriSign guide will demystify the technology involved and give you all the information you need to make the best decision when considering your online security options.

Whether you’re an individual or a company, you should approach online security in the same way that you would approach physical security for your home or business. Not only does it make you feel safer, but it also protects people who visit your home, place of business or website.

It is important to understand the potential risks and then to make sure you are fully protected against them. With security technologies and online risks changing everyday, it is not always easy to stay abreast of the latest advancements.

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Securing the Cloud infrastructure

Posted by Admin on 19th August 2010

Learn how F5 solutions can help make your cloud infrastructure or deployment more secure, reliable, and resilient.

Cloud computing has become another key resource for IT deployments, but there is still fear of securing applications and data in the cloud. With F5 devices, you can keep your most precious assets safe, no matter where they live.

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How to Reset debian Root Password

Posted by Admin on 13th July 2010

If you forgot your root password for your debian server use the following procedure to reset.

Boot to the GRUB menu. Then, press <e> (for edit) before Linux has a chance to boot.
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Anonymous SSH sessions with TOR

Posted by Vincent Wochnik on 18th July 2009

OpenSSH is a great means to protect your connection from being sniffed by others. However, this isn’t always enough. Simply proving that you connected to a server is enough to get incriminated. Unfortunately, SSH doesn’t provide a native way to obfuscate to whom it connects. Instead, a proxy server can be set up. And this is where TOR comes to play. This howto covers installing TOR on a Debian based system and setting up SSH to use TOR.
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Update passwords in batch mode Using chpasswd

Posted by Admin on 25th October 2008

Sometimes, you need to put a non-interactive passwords using scripts, as you can see, you can’t use passwd tool, because it only works using interactive way.

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Howto perform UDP tunneling through SSH connection

Posted by Admin on 21st August 2008

In this tutorial we will are going to provide simple procedure how to to perform UDP tunneling through an SSH connection.Say you need to forward UDP packets between two remote networks securely.

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