Posts Tagged ‘security’

“Linux Tips and Tricks”, cracking passwords and security

Carla Schroder of Linux Today has posted a nice list of her Linux tips and tricks, here. One tip I could not make work is Cracking Passwords. The program simply refused to identify my passwords file. I found that it might be because it doesn’t support this kind of encryption or something like that.

Security breach in Apache and other web-servers

Apparently, there is a serious breach in Apache’s security. Attacker can launch a denial of service attack on Apache based web-site causing it to stop responding.

Ubuntu 9.04 with Wubi – Failure

Once every year or so, I get so frustrated with Windows Desktop that I decide to install Linux. I am a big fun of Ubuntu Linux. I use it for many things, this includes a server platform for this web-site. So most natural choice for me was to try Ubuntu 9.04, the latest version. I […]

Creating new application on top of SSH

Table of contents Introduction How scp works You can run commands on a remote computer using ssh Back to scp Creating our own SSH based application The idea The code Discussion Demonstration Conclusion IntroductionBACK TO TOC As you know, you can use SSH for two things. First, there’s a remote access. You can get access […]

SSH crash course

About this article I would like to do two things in this article. First I would like to tell you about SSH. How to make it work. How to use public key cryptography to login to a remote computer. How to execute remote commands and copy files to/from a remote machine. On the other hand, […]