Entries in the ‘Personal Computer Security’ Category:

Hardening your *nix machine ssh service

One of the biggest increases in attacks i’ve seen lately is brute force attacks on ssh.  Asside from any vulnerabilities your server may have, a misconfigured ssh service can wreak havoc on your system from brute force crackers.  I cannot tell you the number of attempts I’ve seen on machines that are open to the [...]

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Beating Rootkits – Part 1

Memoryze – a newer technique to get ahead of viruses and rootkits that are otherwise undetectable.

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Anti-Virus Software in the Works

Upcoming Malware Profiling, Detection, and Removal System. Database Driven.

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Backdoor.Trojan – How I discovered a new trojan in the wild

pt.exe Virus new in the wild that I discovered and got anti-virus vendor(s) to release updates for!

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Virtualization Using Xen and Debian 5.0

How to resolve xf86MapVidMem Xorg error in Debian 5.0 with Xen virtualization as Dom0

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Taste of What’s to Come

Hello everyone and Welcome to my Computer Security Blog.  My name is Joel Hanger and I am an extremely rounded individual with extensive experience across almost every field of computing.  I am a certified MySQL Database Administrator (DBA).  I have many years of experience developing and designing infrastructures in the unix/linux world.  I have also [...]

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