The linux ip command is similar to ifconfig, but more powerful and is intended to be a replacement for it. With ip you have the advantage of performing several network administration tasks with only one command. In this tutorial, we are going to discuss 15 most common uses for ‘ip’ command, so let’s get going. … Read more
Linux Malware Detect (LMD) or simply Maldet is a free malware scanner designed for Linux machines released under the GNU GPLv2. It is specially designed around the threats in the shared hosted environment. LMD uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to get the actual malware that is used in attacks and generates … Read more
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) … Read more
A filesystem is a way of storing, organizing and accessing files (and/or directories) on a storage device. Some examples of filesystems are FAT, NTFS for Windows/DOS, HFS for MAC OS etc. In Linux, the popular filesystems are ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems. Some other filesystems such as ReiserFS are also natively supported by Linux. … Read more
vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s). It uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source. This means that vnStat won’t actually be sniffing any traffic and also ensures light use of system resources. In this … Read more
LAMP is an archetypal model of web service solution stacks, named as an acronym of the names of its original four open-source components: the Linux operating system, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL/MariaDB relational database management system, and the PHP programming language. The LAMP components are largely interchangeable and not limited to the original selection. … Read more
DenyHosts is a Python script that analyzes the sshd server log messages to determine what hosts are attempting to hack into your system. It also determines what user accounts are being targeted. It keeps track of the frequency of attempts from each host. Additionally, upon discovering a repeated attack host, the /etc/hosts.deny file is updated … Read more
Cacti are web-based open source system and network monitoring tool as the front-end application for RRDtool (Round-Robin database tool). Cacti used to get a graph data for the CPU and network bandwidth utilization, it monitors the network traffic by polling a router or switch via snmp. In this guide I will show you how to … Read more
Malware is known as software which is specifically designed to disrupt or damage a computer system. Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the threats faced in a shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to … Read more
Nagios is the most popular open source monitoring system. Nagios will monitor servers, switches, applications and services. It alerts the System Administrator when something went wrong and also alerts back when the issues has been rectified. In this tutorial we will learn how to install and configure Nagios 4.0.8 on CentOS 7/RHEL 7. To install … Read more