The internet is becoming more and more service oriented with more businesses and companies coming up with offerings that can be provided or accessed online. This requires users to create many accounts on many different platforms for the services that they get online. Such services range from online shopping
SSH, or Secure Shell, is a very common way to securely access remote machines, typically via the command line. It aims at ensuring that your connection, and therefore all data passed, is free from eavesdropping. Because of this, there are quite a few checks built-in to the popular SSH clients,
This article applies to sites created with the Spring Boot framework. We will be discussing the following four methods to add additional layers of security to Spring Boot apps:
In this article I'll explain how to monitor your data and how to detect changes. This kind of monitoring is mostly done using a Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) like Integrit. In this article, we describe various methods for your different use-cases.
In general, an Intrusion Detection System
Have you run in to the warning message below, and don't know how to fix it?
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.1' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
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@ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @
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Permissions 0644 for '/path/to/my/key.pem' are too open.
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By default, Node.js is fairly secure by itself. Although, there are definitely things you have to watch out for. If your Node web-app starts to get more and more popular, for example, you'll need to be thinking more and more about security to ensure that you're keeping your users'
Writing about Passport.js the other day got me thinking about how authentication actually works, and more importantly how many ways it can go wrong. The naive solution is to just store a user's username/email and password directly in the database, and then check the submitted password against
User authentication is one of those things that you probably don't think too much about, but just about every website or app out there requires it. If you had to implement authentication yourself, could you? Well don't worry, you probably won't have to. Since this functionality is so common,
