Articles tagged ‘security’

How to get started with EncFS in three easy steps

A quick and easy tutorial that will teach you how to make use of EncFS in no more than 3 very simple steps.

Internet Explorer vs syn-flooding

How Internet Explorer got choked by some fairly restrictive anti-flooding netfilter rules, while Firefox kept on going; unfortunately, the visitors were mostly using Explorer.

The six dumbest ideas in computer security

A very interesting read by Markus Ranum, which emphasizes some of the ground-shaking security errors that we've come to make every so often in today's day and age.

Using Wake-On-LAN WOL/PME to power up your computer remotely

Describes what you need in order to use Wake-On-LAN functionality, how to enable it and how to use it on Linux.