by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 21, 2010 | Server Administration
There are many simple methods for detecting an intrusion. Though they would only help you identify intruders who do not bother covering up their activities and traces. In real scenario’s, you might need tools that are capable of doing much more. Many of these...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 19, 2010 | Server Administration
Ok, now that we’ve talked about how to prepare for the move, lets go ahead and see what you should take care of during the move. Performing the move Before the move If you have modified the TTL values for your DNS records correctly, the number of problems you...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 14, 2010 | Server Administration
Ever wondered if your website is hosted on a web-server that has a big hole right in the middle? If you haven’t, it is likely that some hacker is already thinking hard. The edge the hacker has is the tools that help him identify the unplugged holes in your...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 12, 2010 | Server Administration
At some point in time we’ve all had to perform a server move. The very thought of which may give many of you a headache. But it doesn’t always have to be that bad. All it takes is careful planning and knowing how to keep you customers informed. In this...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 8, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
Ok, I lied. OpenDS will not help you put the elephant inside the fridge. But why did you want to put that poor creature there, in the first place? No, I’m not going to talk about elephants or fridges. Today, its all about the process of “putting”....
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 7, 2010 | Server Administration
Rootkit Hunter(rkhunter) is a Unix tool that scans for rootkits, trojans, backdoors and similar exploits. The tool is released under GPL license, and hence is a free tool. Actually it’s a shell script that performs various checks on the system and detects the...
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