Managing Partner, David M. Zendzian, will be giving a short presentation on SSL/TLS protocol, security and configuration issues on Brighttalk tomorrow at 12 EST. SSL is a well designed protocol to ensure communications between two points are secured and that 3rd parties are not able to view the protected communications. As such many applications have… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Debian
Server cabinet door alarm
The first step in securing servers is to ensure that they are physically as secure as possible and and then monitored for unauthorized access Many times when setting up servers in a small office or co-location facility many people have their systems in a locking cabinet within a moderately secured physical building. However a determined… Read more »
OpenSSL Vulnerability
A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system. This particularly… Read more »
How To Set Up A Ubuntu/Debian LAMP Server
Build Your Own Debian/Ubuntu LAMP Server – Quick & Easy Do it Yourself Installation Apache 2 – Linux Web server MySQL 5 – MySQL Database Server PHP4/5 – PHP Scripting Language phpMyAdmin – Web-based database admin software. Note: Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl together commonly known as LAMP Server.
What Version of Debian Am I Running?
On a Debian system, the file `/etc/debian_version’ contains the release name of the Debian installed. Use cat to output the contents of this file (see Concatenating Text). * To output the release name of the Debian system you are on, type: $ cat /etc/debian_version NOTE: Debian releases have historically been named after characters from the… Read more »
