Issue #155 / Oct 2013

When you start processing security-related data to find patterns, you quickly end up in Big Data territory, and you'll need some powerful tools to help you separate the good from the bad.

Splunk has mastered the art of finding truly relevant messages in huge amounts of log data. Perlmeister Mike Schilli throws his system messages at the feet of a proprietary analysis tool and teaches the free version an enterprise feature.

SSL Encryption and Signature Compilation

StressLinux helps you optimize your hardware and eke out more performance from individual components.

Instead of relying on a third-party service for instant photo sharing, you can build your own solution using existing software and a pinch of PHP and Python scripting.

The writer2ePub plugin for OpenOffice Writer converts formatted files to compatible data for many of the popular e-book readers at the press of a button.

Extend protection to all of your Internet traffic with a Raspberry Pi minicomputer set up as a cost-effective external proxy server.

The powerful dpkg-reconfigure command can be used to reconfigure an entire installation. We show how to use it wisely.

View Your Mind lets you draw and manage mind maps that can help you structure your thoughts and ideas and record notes.

Linux users didn't need the recent NSA eavesdropping scandal to convince them that securing communication was a good idea. Free software developers have been creating secure tools for years that offer similar functionalities to all of those popular but very leaky services with ridiculous names.