Install and Configure Squid Proxy on Fedora 29/Fedora 28/CentOS 7
Welcome guys to this very tutorial on how to install and configure Squid proxy on Fedora 29/Fedora 28/CentOS 7.Squid is a full-featured web proxy cache server application which provides proxy and cache services for HTTP, FTP, SSL requests and DNS lookups. It also performs transparent caching that reduces bandwidth and improves response time by caching and reusing frequently requested...
How to Use VeraCrypt on Command Line to Encrypt Drives on Ubuntu
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use VeraCrypt on Command Line to Encrypt Drives on Ubuntu. In our previous article, we discussed how to install and use VeraCrypt to encrypt drives on Ubuntu.
We used the VeraCrypt GUI method. In this article, we are going to learn how to use VeraCrypt on command line interface to achieve the...
How to Install and Use VeraCrypt to Encrypt Drives on Ubuntu
Today, we are going to learn about how to install and use VeraCrypt to encrypt Drives on Ubuntu 18.04. VeraCrypt is an open-source software forked from TrueCrypt whose development and maintenance has since been discontinued. It is used for performing on-the-fly disk encryption (OTFE). On-the-fly encryption means that data is encrypted before it is written to the disk and...
Install and Use Nikto Web Scanner on Ubuntu 18.04
Hello folks, today we are going to learn how to install and use Nikto web scanner on Ubuntu 18.04 server.
Nikto is a Perl based open-source web vulnerability scanner that can unearth every other potential threat on your web server including but not limited to;
Insecure files and programsOutdated servers and programsServer and software misconfigurationsDefault files and programs
Nikto can run on...
How to Install and Configure DVWA Lab on Ubuntu 18.04 server
Hello there, today we are going to learn how to install and configure DVWA lab on Ubuntu 18.04 server.
DVWA has been defined as a damn vulnerable PHP/MySQL based web application whose main goals are to aid security professionals to test their skills and tools in a legal environment, help web developers better understand the processes of securing web applications...
How to Perform System Security Auditing with Lynis on Ubuntu 18.04
Lynis is an open-source security tool that can perform an in-depth system security scan in order to evaluate the system's security profile. Due to its simplicity and flexibility, Lynis can be used to achieve the following;
Automated Security auditing
Compliance testing (e.g. PCI, HIPAA, SOx)
Penetration testing
Vulnerability detection
System hardening
Configuration and asset management
Software patch management
Intrusion...
How to Install RKHunter (RootKit Hunter) On Ubuntu 18.04
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install RKHunter (RootKit Hunter) On Ubuntu 18.04. RootKit Hunter is a Unix-based shell script that can scan the local system for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing the SHA-1 hashes of the local files with the known good hashes in an online database.
It can also monitor...
How to Protect Single User Mode with Password in Ubuntu 18.04
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to protect single user mode with password on Ubuntu 18.04 server such that whoever wants to access the system root filesystem through this runlevel/target has to supply the password first.
Single user mode, also known as maintenance mode is a mode in which a multi-user computer OS boots into a single...
How to Install and Use ClamAV Antivirus on Ubuntu 18.04
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and use ClamAV antivirus on Ubuntu 18.04. ClamAV is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware, adwares, rootkits and other malicious threats. It supports multiple file formats, file and archive unpacking, and multiple signature languages such as hash-based signature matching, wildcards, boolean logic and any custom rules...
Create Locally Trusted SSL Certificates with mkcert on Ubuntu 18.04
Hello folks, welcome to this very tutorial on how to create locally trusted SSL certificates with mkcert on Ubuntu 18.04.
mkcert is a simple zero-config tool that is used to make locally trusted development certificates. It automatically creates and installs a local CA in the system root store, and generates locally-trusted certificates.
Using certificates from real certificate authorities (CAs) for development can...
