HTTPS Proxy Using a Squid proxy with HTTPS
Aug 23, 2012How do you monitor the network when your client systems are connecting to secure web servers through HTTPS? We’ll show you how to keep watch using the Squid proxy server and share some inventive certificate tricks.
more »Table of Contents: 143 Intrusion Prevention
Aug 23, 2012New vulnerabilities appear every day. To keep your network safe, you need to think like an attacker.
more »Intrusion Detection with fail2ban
May 22, 2012For its size, fail2ban, a utility that scans logfiles and bans suspicious IP addresses, punches well above its weight.
more »Customizing PortSentry Do you have a sentry to keep an eye on your servers?
Apr 24, 2012PortSentry monitors your ports and lets you know when they’ve been scanned.
more »BackTrack Linux 5 R2 Released
Mar 09, 2012Full release of BackTrack Linux 5 R2 is now available.
more »Charly’s Column: w3af The sys admin’s daily grind: w3af
Mar 02, 2012After toiling away to create a small but exclusive website, Charly wanted to run a security scanner against it to check for vulnerabilities. The choice of tools is enormous, but Charly chose w3af.
more »Charly’s Column: PortSentry The sys admin’s daily grind: PortSentry
Feb 03, 2012To celebrate 10 years of his column, Charly sets up a sensitive detector that measures the cosmic background radiation of the Internet.
more »Anonymous: Activist Hackers in the Headlines
Jan 30, 2012The Anonymous Hacktivist group has been in many headlines this past year. Who are they? What did they attack? How do they communicate?
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Google and NASA Partner in Quantum Computing Project
Vendor D-Wave scores big with a sale to NASA's Quantum Intelligence Lab.
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Mageia Project Announces Mageia 3 Linux
Many package updates and Steam integration highlight the latest from the Mandriva-based community Linux.
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FSF Outs the World Wide Web Consortium over DRM Proposal
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
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Debian 7.0 Debuts
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
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Alpha Version of Fedora 19 Released
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
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ack 2.0 Released
ack is a grep-like, command-line tool that has been optimized for programmers to search large trees of source code.
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SUSE Studio 1.3 Released
New features in SUSE Studio 1.3 include enhanced cloud integration, VM platform support, and lifecycle management.
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Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
The Linux Foundation recently announced that the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
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RunRev Releases Open Source Version of LiveCode
Open source version of LiveCode is now available for developing apps, games, and utilities for all major platforms.
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OpenDaylight Project Formed
OpenDaylight is an open source software-defined networking project committed to furthering adoption of SDN and accelerating innovation in a vendor-neutral and open environment.