With a special fuzzer for kernel system calls from Google , extremely many bugs have been found in the USB stack of the Linux kernel . Many of them are classified as critical vulnerabilities, which is true for all kernel Read more…
A complete encryption of your own system is an excellent way to ensure the confidentiality of your own data. The current Ubuntu installer offers a guided installation to encrypt the entire system with ” encrypted LVMs “. For both Read more…
The OpenSSH Secure Shell Server provides secure, encrypted remote access to Linux and Unix systems. The server side is the file authozired_keys in .ssh a user’s primary folder to configure a public-key authentication . Normally, a user gets full access to the system where the authentication was Read more…
Centralized directory services such as OpenLDAP or Active Directory (AD) simplify password management for the administrator and the user. In terms of Linux servers, the aspect of SSH authentication via AD is especially interesting. From the point of view of IT security, this Read more…
Compiling a Linux kernel is not an everyday occurrence for most administrators. It is all the more important to know the right tools when the time comes. The following article shows examples of how Mainline / Vanilla Kernel and the distribution-specific kernel Read more…
Under certain conditions, the Tor Browser reveals the unveiled IP address of the users. Affected are only Mac and Linux versions of the Firefox bundle, in daily use, the error should affect only a few people. The Tor project has Read more…
This article shows how to manually install Oracle’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on Ubuntu. By 2011, Oracle JRE was included directly in Ubuntu and Debian. For licensing reasons, however, these packages were removed there. Manually install JRE The following steps Read more…
The Arduino -Online IDE support with Intel’s help in the future x86-based Linux Computers including migration path to professional IDEs. A fully configured hardware kit is designed to make it easier for embedded developers to get started. Arduino Create , the Read more…
For the analysis of operating system statistics, there are numerous possibilities, but for a rough analysis, it is sufficient in many cases to take the most important components under the microscope. The rrd-using tool serverstats provides quick and easy access to statistics Read more…
The following article shows the uploading of own Ubuntu packages in a reprepro repository. The packages are transferred by dupload via scp to a folder on the repository server where they are processed by reprepro via an inoticoming job. In the examples shown, Read more…
