Understanding PAM
PAM is the Pluggable Authentication Module, invented by Sun. It's a beautiful concept, but it can be confusing and even…
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The Mysteriously Persistently Exploitable Program
This week, we'll take a look at a successful and somewhat puzzling machine compromise. The machine in question was a…
GNU Linux Security
People consider the GNU or free software and open source software to be unsafe and are supposed to easily compromised…
Detecting and Understanding rootkits – an Introduction and just a little bit more
Well, well, well. You have installed the latest Linux distribution and stopped all unnecessary services. You also set-up a set…
Suid programs, getting to the root of the problem
There are always some little touches left to make your linux even a bit more secure, involving suid, nouser, sudo…
Securing Linux
Here we go again. I decided to write another article concerning some overall security aspects of installing and running linux.…
An Introduction to Tripwire
First of all, let me note that there exists two different versions of Tripwire. There is a commercial version available…
