Posted by Admin on 12th November 2007
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On Cisco routers, a whole bunch of services come enabled by default.your first order of operation would be to ensure that the all unused services are disabled.
Now we will see how to disable some services on cisco router for security purpose.
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Posted by Admin on 28th December 2006
Secure Shell is a program to log into another computer over a network, to execute commands in a remote machine, and to move files from one machine to another. It provides strong authentication and secure communications over unsecure channels. It is intended as a replacement for telnet, rlogin, rsh, and rcp. For SSH2, there is a replacement for FTP: sftp.This might be useful if you are trying to connect everytime to your server remotely.
Posted in General, Security | 7 Comments »
Posted by Admin on 22nd October 2006
AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files.
Posted in Other Linux, Security | 38 Comments »
Posted by Admin on 21st October 2006
Firestarter is an Open Source visual firewall program. The software aims to combine ease of use with powerful features, therefore serving both Linux desktop users and system administrators.
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Posted by Admin on 30th September 2006
There are times for system administrators they might have forgot their debian machine root password and they want to reset this password.We will see the available options.
There are various methods available for resetting a root password.
Boot debian linux into single-user mode
Boot using a boot disk (like knoppix,gnoppix) and edit the password file
Mount the drive on another computer and edit the password file
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Posted by Admin on 28th September 2006
Ubuntu is one of the few Linux distributions out there that will not enable the root account.If you want to do something with root permission on the console you have to type sudo before the command.
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