How to implement 2 factor authentication for SSH on Ubuntu 16.04

Hello everyone. Today I’ll show you how to implement 2 factor authentication for SSH on Ubuntu 16.04 server using the Google Authenticator app. We will use ssh key (1st factor) and a randomly generate code (2nd factor) by Google Authenticator to login to our Ubuntu server. I use Amazon EC2 …

How to detect and fix Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) issues on Ubuntu kernel

  A serious bug has been detected recently in Linux kernel named Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195). An unprivileged local user can use this flaw to gain write access in the system. The bug existed since around 2.6.22+ (release in 2007) and was fixed on Oct 18, 2016. Exploitation of this bug does …

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