This guide explores the approach needed to protect Linux servers including the implementation of Transport Layer Security protocols and Tor.
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LinSSID – graphical wireless scanning
LinSSID is a Wi-Fi network scanner. It’s graphically and functionally similar to Inssider.
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wavemon – ncurses-based monitoring for wireless network devices
wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application. Watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and more.
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horst – Highly Optimized Radio Scanning Tool
horst is a small, lightweight IEEE802.11 WLAN analyzer with a text interface.
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Kismet – networking software
Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It works with wireless cards which supports raw monitoring.
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aircrack-ng – WiFi security auditing tools suite
aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.
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airgeddon – multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks
airgeddon is a multi-use bash script for Linux systems to audit wireless networks. The script offers a wide range of features.
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bettercap – Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks
bettercap is a powerful, easily extensible and portable framework for performing reconnaissance and attacking WiFi networks.
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Universal Radio Hacker – complete suite for wireless protocol investigation
URH is a complete suite for wireless protocol investigation with native support for many common Software Defined Radios.
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Nagios – host and service monitor
Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems. The monitoring daemon runs periodic checks on hosts and services.
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PeaZip – winrar/winzip alternative
PeaZip is a cross-platform portable file archiver, released under the LGPL. PeaZip supports many different archive and compression formats.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – Security
Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering security software, firewalls, web application firewalls, email encryption, port scanners.
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40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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Does static application security testing protect against malware?
This post explores how static application security testing can have an essential role in protecting against malware attacks.
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Linux cybersecurity mistakes businesses commonly make
Here are the most common mistakes users make which can lead to security problems.
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Can You Use Tor on Linux?
Let’s check out what makes Tor different and how you can use it on Linux.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Become Anonymous – Part 18
Improve your privacy with these ways of reducing spying and snooping on your daily life. This article is part of the Linux for Starters series.
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Linux Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know
Linux is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to improve their cybersecurity. Here’s what you can do to improve your cybersecurity.
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Linux at Home: DIY security solutions for the home
Here’s our recommended open source solutions to create your own Linux-based surveillance system. ZoneMinder, Motion, and Kerberos.io are featured.
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Essential System Tools: Firejail – Excellent Security Sandboxing
This article looks at Firejail, a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces, Linux capabilities and seccomp-bpf.
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