Articles

Protect your Network with Port Knocking  

To ensure that the data on your computers remains accessible only by you and those with whom you want to share, we look at the advantages of combining TCP Wrappers and port knocking.

Watchdog  

The FIDO Alliance is working to build open solutions for the future of authentication.

Data Tender  

The Sheepdog distributed storage tool exhibits pronounced doggedness and deserves appropriate attention, benefiting projects such as QEMU and OpenStack.

Relaxed in the Zoo  

Anyone who manages many clusters should be meticulous in ensuring that organized processes prevail in the distributed server zoo. We describe how Apache ZooKeeper fulfills this task.

Defying the Danger  

The Heartbleed bug shocked the security community and seriously damaged the reputation of OpenSSL. Luckily, alternatives such as LibreSSL, PolarSSL, and GnuTLS are waiting in the wings.

Smooth Check  

Why spam yourself with useless notifications every time a script completes successfully? You can use Nagios to screen the notices and just send the ones that need action.

On Ice  

With CRIU, you can freeze the current state of a process and save it, then bring it back to life and continue from the point at which it was frozen.

Window Repairs  

Need to fix a Windows server? We'll discuss some techniques for getting your system back. You'll also learn some tricks for Active Directory and Exchange.

Protected  

Around since the 1960s, passwords are still the mainstay for authentication. The good news is you have alternatives in hardware multifactor authentication.

Between Worlds  

People still use hard disks even when SSDs are much faster and more robust. One reason is the price; another is the lower capacity of flash storage. Hybrid drives promise to be as fast as SSDs while offering as much capacity as hard drives. But can they keep that promise?