I've been using Secure Shell (SSH) for decades. With this remote login tool, I can rest assured my remote machines accept logins securely and efficiently. At the same time, I also understand nothing ...

On Linux, the umask defines how new files and directories inherit access rights. Linux uses your current umask value to ...

Most people assume Linux is secure, and that’s a false assumption. Imagine your laptop is stolen without first being hardened. A thief would probably assume your username is “root” and your password ...

Would you change what you said on the phone, if you knew someone malicious was listening? Whether or not you view the NSA as malicious, I imagine that after reading the NSA coverage on Linux Journal, ...

Nload is showing a fairly low incoming load on my Nextcloud server. How to quickly check to see if your Linux server is under a DoS attack from a single IP address Your email has been sent If you have ...

How secure would Linux be if everyone were using it? Given the popularity of Linux as a server OS, especially among Internet servers, I think it would be pretty secure. But would it really be more ...

A centralized syslog server was one of the first true SysAdmin tasks that I was given as a Linux Administrator way back in 1997. My boss at the time wanted to pull in log files from various appliances ...