Ansible is an open source configuration management tool, and is popular for provision infrastructure. In this blog post I’ll show you how easily you can spin up multiple droplets in DigitalOcean. The full code can be downloaded from here. Prerequisite Ansible should be installed on your host and you should …
SPAM (or more specifically phishing) email is the most popular and effective weapon of cyber attack now a day. What is the first thing people do after receiving a spam email? Some got caught in the spammer net, some ignore it, some deletes the email, but as a security enthusiast …
Docker, the most popular container technology nowadays. By nature it’s an application container, means if you want apache you will get apache inside your container. Or if you want to run mysql inside your container its mysql only. Got the picture? Cool. In this post I ll show you …
The Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw) is a front end for iptables and is a host based firewall. In this tutorial we will see how to enable and configure ufw firewall on Ubuntu system. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS introduced ufw, and it is available by default in all Ubuntu installations after 8.04 LTS. One …
Those who are familiar with Linux system must know the top command. We can monitor our system usage by using top command like cpu, memory etc. There is another command which does the similar things like top, but instead of displaying the output in a raw text format, gtop produce …
iptables, The most common and widely used Linux firewall for IPv4 traffic. Like iptables, Linux has another firewall utility called ip6tables which is used for IPv6 traffic. These two tables need to configure separately for IPv4 and IPv6 packet. In this tutorial we will see how to configure ip6tables in Ubuntu …
A honeypot is a computer software or device that exists only for attack. Yes, that’s the main goal of a honeypot. When you deploy a honeypot the main goal of the system is to be attacked. When a hacker interact with the honeypot, it starts logging the activity of the …
If you are familiar with LXD container then, you may already visited this lxd try it online link. Where you can create LXD container and do some basic operation on a demo server within a given time period (usually 30 minutes). After the time period you will be logout from the …
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 …
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 …
