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How can I protect my internet-connected devices from discovery by Shodan?
There's been a lot of buzz around this recent CNN article about Shodan, a search engine that can find and allow access to unsecured internet-connected devices.
Shodan runs 24/7 and collects ...
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What are the basic implementations that make a network secure from the inside\outside?
Would you consider the following to be "basic hardening items" for network equipment and servers?
VLANs
Access Control (such as NTFS permissions)
Patch Management System
Host Firewall
Anti-Virus
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VPS security best practice
I've just signed up for a linux VPS to host a website I've been creating and I need some advice on the best approach to secure it.
I've previously been hosting it off a VM in the house, but I want to ...
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ICMP redirects and source routing in the wild?
Theoretically, ICMP redirect messages (IPv4 and IPv6) and source routing (IPv4) / routing headers (IPv6) are very dangerous. However, I'm curious as to if attacks using these features really work in ...
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Bruteforce attack on my FTP server
I recently setup VSFTPD on my personal server for sharing files over FTP. In the vsftpd.log file, i see hundreds of failed attempts to login with usernames like "adminitrator" , "adminitrator1", ...
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How do we protect our server from anonymous hacker? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Hardening Linux Server
How to best defend against Targeted Attacks?
I read this news: Anonymous hacker group hits Apple, publishes data
My question: How do we ...
