Debian: DSA-4738-1: ark security update
Dominik Penner discovered that the Ark archive manager did not sanitise extraction paths, which could result in maliciously crafted archives writing outside the extraction directory. Like
Quickly Build Virtual Machine Images With Virt-builder
Virt-builder is a command line tool for building variety of virtual machine images for local or cloud use, easily as well as quickly. It also has many ways to customize …
7 Best Open Source “Disk Cloning/Backup” Tools for Linux Servers
Disk cloning is the process of copying data from a hard disk to another one, in fact, you can do this process by copy & paste but you won’t be …
23 CentOS Server Hardening Security Tips – Part 2
Continuing the previous tutorial on How to Secure and Harden CentOS server, in this article, we’ll discuss other security tips that will be presented on the below checklist. Requirements 20 …
20 CentOS Server Hardening Security Tips – Part 1
This tutorial only covers general security tips for CentOS 8/7 which can be used to harden the system. The checklist tips are intended to be used mostly on various types …
July 31, 2020: Celebrate “System Administrator Appreciation Day” Today
Friday July 31st, 2020 is witnessing 21st System Administrator Appreciation Day. System Administrator Appreciation Day also known as Sysadmin Day, SysAdminDay, SAD or SAAD is celebrated on the last Friday …
How to Install Nagios on Ubuntu 20.04
Nagios is a popular open-source monitoring system. Nagios keeps an inventory of your entire IT infrastructure and ensures your networks, servers, applications, services, and processes are up and running. In …
Debian: DSA-4735-2: grub2 regression update
The update for grub2 released as DSA 4735-1 caused a boot-regression when chainloading another bootlaoder and breaking notably dual-boot with Windows. Updated grub2 packages are now available to correct this …
Access And Modify Virtual Machine Disk Images With Libguestfs
The libguestfs is a C library and a collection of tools on this library to create, view, access and modify virtual machine disk images in Linux. You can look inside …
Make your own Personal Health-Record (PHR), Keep your Medical Data Private with TiddlyWiki
Days ago I published an article with a quick tutorial and simple code snippets about TiddlyWiki. One of the use-cases I recommend is a Persona Health Record “PHR”, I personally …