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Entries Tagged ‘security’

How to configure remote logging on RHEL6/CentOS6

Remote logging is a feature supported by rsyslog, the default syslog daemon in RHEL6 / CentOS 6. Having the local log files stored on a remote system is good practice, as it protects the logs integrity in case of a local attack. With the default rsyslog RHEL6 configuration it is really easy to enable remote [...]

10 Steps for Basic Linux Desktop Security

I agree that Linux is less vulnerable than Windows, but that doesn’t make it immune to attackers. It’s not always about security flaws, buffer overflows or denial of service attacks. Most intruders exploit incorrect system configurations or access permissions which are often caused by user ignorance. I came up with a list of 10 basic [...]

system-config-firewall

This post title is the name of a Fedora configuration tool which is getting better with each release. Firewall configuration used to scare new users, but now things are a lot easier. Having a nice and simple GUI, system-config-firewall (which is written in Python) offers default iptables rules for both desktop and server users and [...]