Rootkit Hunter (rkhunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of important files with known good ones in online database as well as: MD5 hash compare Look for default files used by rootkits Wrong file permissions for binaries Look for suspected strings in LKM and KLD modules Look for … Read more
Linus Torvalds has announced the immediate availability of the sixth Release Candidate in the 3.13 branch of the kernel. Linux kernel 3.13 RC6 has arrived on schedule, but with a very small number of commits, making it one of the smallest release candidates so far, at last in this development cycle. In this article I … Read more
Linus Torvalds has released the first stable version of Kernel 3.12 yesterday. For more information about the fixes and enhancements brought by the latest Kernel version, see the mailing lists. In this article i will show you how to install the Kernel 3.12 final release on Ubuntu 12.04/13.04/13.10, Linux Mint 14/15/16, Debian Wheezy and Debian KWheezy. … Read more
Linus Torvalds announced to the kernel mailing list on Sunday that Linux 3.12-rc3 is now available. Being midway through the development cycle and well past the merge window, the 3.12-rc3 changes aren’t too exciting but mostly just bug-fixes scattered throughout the kernel. In this article I will show you how to install the Linux Kernel 3.12 RC3 … Read more
IPv6 is enabled by default on most Linux distros. However, IPv6 is not used most of time (at least in my case). This post introduces how to disable IPv6 support on Linux (newer Kernel versions, such as in Fedora 17). IPv6 on Linux can be easily configured via sysctrl. Add these lines to /etc/sysctl.conf: net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 … Read more