linuxlifecycle.com | Support Life Cycles for Enterprise Linux Distributions | Presenting linuxlifecycle.com! A simple clear site which displays the current support cycle or life cycle of major Linux distributions. http://linuxlifecycle.com Corrections and feedback welcome,
Create HTML Reports with Nikto Web Server Scanner
Create HTML Reports with Nikto Web Server Scanner | The open source web server scanner Nikto can create excellent HTML reports. I’ll show you how! In your nikto scan options, use tack capital F htm to signify the output format as html. Below is an example command: $ nikto -h example.com -Display V -F htm -output niktoscan.html Click to view an example HTML report
Protect Against XSS by Enabling HttpOnly for Linux Apache PHP
Protect Against XSS by Enabling HttpOnly for Linux Apache PHP | HttpOnly is a session cookie flag created to protect against cross site scripting and theft of session cookies. For good security, this should be enabled for PHP running under Apache especially for sites such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and other popular PHP-based web applications. OWASP has some information on HttpOnly. I’ll show you how to
How to Install OSSEC on Red Hat or CentOS 6
How to Install OSSEC on Red Hat or CentOS 6 | OSSEC is an open source centralized log monitoring and notification system. OSSEC is often used to meet PCI Compliance central logging and intrusion monitoring requirements with a free and self-managed solution. OSSEC monitors all types of logs such as syslog, apache, maillogs, mysql logs, ftp logs, cisco IOS logs, and more. I’ll show you how
Linux Security Weekly | 007
Linux Security Weekly | 007 | Hello and welcome to Linux Security Weekly for July 8, 2012. Linux Security Weekly is the audio podcast which covers current and important security vulnerabilities in Linux and open source software for the past week. Show Notes: Thunderbird moves to ESR-only release November 20th, 2012 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/ Get Thunderbird ESR now: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/organizations/all-esr.html Asterisk CVE-2012-3863,
Ubuntu Server MOTD Include Security Updates
Ubuntu Server MOTD Include Security Updates | Ubuntu Server can display outstanding package and security updates as the MOTD when logging in locally or via ssh. I’ll show you how! To enable this feature, install the following package: $ sudo apt-get install update-notifier-common The terminal output will look as below: $ ssh user@example.com Linux example.com 3.0.18-linode43 #1 SMP Mon Jan 30 11:44:09
MuseScore | Free Open Source Music Notation Software
MuseScore | Free Open Source Music Notation Software | MuseScore is a great free and open source music notation app for Mac, Windows and Linux. MuseScore has the work flow and feel of Sibelius and is able to import and export files to Sibelius and Finale via MusicXML. Install On Debian or Ubuntu Linux install with: $ sudo apt-get install musescore Note input is
Create HTML reports with nmap
Create HTML reports with nmap | nmap can actually create very good html reports. I’ll show you how! Below is a one-liner command that will scan and create an html file for all open ports and services. This example happens to be a scan of my home network with a few VirtualBox VMs started to add to the mix. I use
GUI for sqlmap
GUI for sqlmap | An excellent python based GUI for sqlmap is available here: https://code.google.com/p/gui-for-sqlmap/ On Debian or Ubuntu, here is how to install: $ sudo apt-get install python-tk python2.7 sakura $ git clone git://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap.git $ cd sqlmap $ wget http://gui-for-sqlmap.googlecode.com/files/sqm-17612.zip $ unzip sqm-17612.zip $ python2.7 sqm.pyw Cool!
Linux Security Weekly | 006
Linux Security Weekly | 006 | Hello and welcome to Linux Security Weekly for July 1, 2012. Linux Security Weekly is the audio podcast which covers current and important security vulnerabilities in Linux and open source software for the past week. Show Notes: AIX – sendmail CVE-2012-2200 http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/sendmail1_advisory.asc https://twitter.com/hdmoore/statuses/218114278291550208 apache tomcat 7.0.28 http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.28/README.html http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.28/RELEASE-NOTES wordpress 3.4.1 http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.1 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=21153%40branches%2F3.4&old=21076%40trunk Chrome