Apache HTTP Server and .htaccess
In this post I want to summarize some information about securing your Apache websites. This topic is well documented from…
Set up Fail2ban on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
In this post I want to show how to install and use Fail2Ban on Ubuntu. Fail2Ban is an intrusion prevention…
Nikto Web Server Scanner
In this post I want to show how to install and using the nikto command-line vulnerability scanner. Introduction Nikto is…
Set up ModSecurity (Libmodsecurity | ModSecurity v3 project) for Apache on Ubuntu
In this post I will install and configure Libmodsecurity which is a complete rewrite of the ModSecurity platform (aka ModSecurity…
SSH Session Timeout – TCP Keepalive
In case your ssh connection is permanently disconnected in idle state, you can enable TCP-Keepalive either on the ssh server…
Set up MediaWiki on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
In this post I want to go through the separate steps to set up the open source software MediaWiki on…
Move Home Directory to another dedicated Drive/Partition in Linux
By default the home directory will be installed within the OS hard drive and root partition. Below you will see…
Install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Microsoft introduced in Windows 10 1609 a subsystem for Linux and later also for Windows Server 2019. The Windows Subsystem…
Set up Apache Superset on Ubuntu using Docker Compose
In this post I will set up an Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS VM in order to install Docker and Compose to…
ACL , ACE , DACL, SACL, MAC and RBAC
In this post I want to summarize in a nutshell the terminologies which exist for controlling permissions on securable objects…