Security

Avast Antivirus for Ubuntu 11.04/11.10

August 5, 2011

Linux Avast Home Edition – Antivirus software for Ubuntu users.

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firewall for ubuntu 11.04

May 13, 2011

Firewall for Ubuntu 11.04 – Natty Narwhal; configure UFW in graphical interface..

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how to login as root in ubuntu 10.10

October 19, 2010

On Ubuntu 10.10 you can’t have all the administrative or root power with the default user,created during the installation.If you want to login as root in GUI mode then use passwd command(Explained Below).If you think that why can’t I get all the root power with the default user,then the reason is obvious – the security [...]

Tagged as: Maverick Meerkat, root login, root password, sudo commands, Ubuntu 10.10 tips

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how to install wine on ubuntu 10.04

July 18, 2010

Wine – Windows program loader/installer : Ubuntu 10.04 Wine is a compatibility layer to run windows applications/softwares on Linux based OS like Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid Lynx)/9.10/10.10.The most important fact is that the applications doesn’t required CPU emulation and run at full speed.The Wine can be installed in Ubuntu 10.04 by using command line or Synaptic Package [...]

Tagged as: best applications for ubuntu 10.04, how to, install windows programs on Ubuntu 10.04, open source softwares, run exe in ubuntu, ubuntu 10.04 tips, wine

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Antivirus software for Ubuntu

July 4, 2010

Actually there aren’t so many options available in choosing right antivirus software(in comparison to other applications) on Ubuntu 9.10 or 10.04 because Linux based operating system is not vulnerable to the most of the viruses and *wares(Due to the Fact that,Some years ago,only windows XP or other windows NT based operating system were suitable for [...]

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how to install clamav on Ubuntu 10.04

July 4, 2010

Clamav for Ubuntu 10.04 Clamav(clam antivirus) is an application program designed to be an antivirus toolkit for Unix and Linux based operating systems like Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10.Clamav is an command line tool which is based on libclamav6 library.Clamav is a very flexible and feature rich(multi-threading daemon for automatic update of clam-freshclam package,a virus database [...]

Tagged as: antivirus software, command line tool, open source tool, virus scan, virus scanner

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Avast for Ubuntu 10.04

June 29, 2010

In fact Ubuntu 10.04 or any other Linux based systems are not so vulnerable to viruses and worms because most of these malicious programs were developed for windows platform with .exe executables so they are harmless for ubuntu 10.04.One more fact is that,Ubuntu(or any GNU-Linux OS) security policy and strategy is very secure as compare [...]

Tagged as: antivirus software, avast, tool, ubuntu 10.04 tips, virus scan

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How to Make Strong Passwords

May 28, 2010

The aim of this post is to help you in making your passwords(E-mail,Bank Account,Paypal,Alertpay or others password) strong to assure high security. What is Password? Password is an authentication mechanism which is required to use the system’s resource or to login.Authentication need two types of information – first one is username or e-mail ID which [...]

Tagged as: algorithms for making passwords, authentication mechanism, how to, How to build strong passwords, How to create strong passwords, make your passwords strong, password, tips for generating strong strong password

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school computer hacks

April 23, 2010

Why do you Want to Hack School Computers ? Before going to the actual matter related to the school computers first come to the point that why do you want to hack your school computers.I don’t know why? but I am giving you the common idea i.e what are the common goals that is directly [...]

Tagged as: access block websites, computer hacks, hack administrator password, hacking school, how to hack school computers, office computer hacks, school computer, Security

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how to protect against internet threats

April 7, 2010

Increasing internet threats are becoming a big headache thesedays.Hence it seems very difficult to protect against internet threats during online activities.But with few basic precautions it is very easy to secure yourself fr0m most of the crackers and script kiddies;most of the crackers and script kiddies succeeded due to the ignorancy of the end user.Most [...]

Tagged as: basic security tips, internet threats, internet tips, online attacks, online fraud, online threats, protect, secure

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how to hijack a tcp connection|hacking tcp sessions

March 26, 2010

Hijacking a tcp connection requires just a little bit knowledge about IP spoofing and ACK numbers. IP spoofing is a simple technique in which the attacker/hacker replaces the IP address of the sender i.e sends some data by confusing the receiver.ACK or SEQ numbers are used by the web servers to distinguished between different sessions and [...]

Tagged as: how to hack TCP, tcp hacks, TCP session hacks, tcp session hijacking

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what is ip fragment attacks|IP fragmentation hacks

March 24, 2010

IP Fragment IP fragments is useful in keeping tracks of the different parts of a datagram in TCP/IP suite.When the data packets arrived at the destination field then it is used to reassemble the datagrams.The identification value of all the IP fragments are same so the fragmentation offset is used to indicates the actual position [...]

Tagged as: hacking IP, IP attacks, ip fragmentation, IP hacks, tcp hacks