THE CHALLENGES OF VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS Network vulnerability assessments are widely recognized as a crucial component of network security and a key component of any overall Network Security Assessment Service. Vulnerability Assessments are performed to determine the actual security posture of a network environment. They are designed to explore whether or not a malicious attacker can … Read more
It is possible that email and browser-based viruses, Trojans and worms are the source of the myth that Windows is attacked more often than Linux. Clearly there are more desktop installations of Windows than Linux. It is certainly possible, if not probable, that Windows desktop software is attacked more often because Windows dominates the desktop. … Read more
LINUX/UNIX has three most important parts. They are Kernel, Shell and File System Figure: Layers of Linux Kernel Kernel is the heart of the operating system. It is the low level core of the System that is the interface between applications and H/W. Functions Manage Memory, I/O devices, allocates the time between user and process,inter … Read more
Linux can give you: 1. A modern, very stable, multi-user, multitasking environment on your inexpensive PC hardware, at no (or almost no) monetary cost for the software. Linux is a rich and powerful platform don’t think of it as a “poor people” operating system. Out-of-box Linux has as much capability as MS Windows NT with … Read more
Installing GCC on CentOS 7, is really an easy task and it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes. 1. Update the server First of all log in to your CentOS 7 VPS via SSH as user root ssh root@IP_Address -p Port_number and make sure that all installed packages on the server are up to date … Read more
xrdp installation on CentOS 7 Prerequisites 1. First, install Gnome GUI on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 2. xrdp is available in EPEL repository, Install and configure EPEL repository rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm Install xrdp on CentOS 7 Use YUM command to install xrdp package on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 yum -y install xrdp tigervnc-server Once xrdp is installed, … Read more
Create user in linux Use the adduser command to add a new user to your system. Be sure to replace username with the user that you want to create. adduser username Use the passwd command to update the new user’s password. Set password for a user in linux passwd username Set and confirm the … Read more
Create and View file in linux The ‘cat’ command is used to display text files. It can also be used for copying, combining and creating new text files. Let’s see how it works. To create a new file, use the command vi filename Press a to enter into insert mode or append mode Start writing … Read more
rm command to delete files in linux The rm command (short for remove) is a Unix / Linux command which is used to delete files from a file system. Here is few example of rm command 1) To remove a file named test.txt, use the following command. $ rm test.txt Here rm test would … Read more
ls – linux command to listing files and directory Here is video to show how to use ls command in linux.