chkrootkit (Check Rootkit) is a common Unix based program intented to help system administrators check their system for known rootkits. It is basically a shell script using common UNIX/Linux tools like strings and grep commands to check core system programs for signatures. If you doubt that your server has been hacked, chkrootkit is what you [...]
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How to close Open DNS
May 23rd, 2009 
admin This tutorial describes how to close an Open DNS server. An Open DNS server allows anyone to use that server as a DNS lookup server. This is a potential threat and such access must either be blocked, or restricted to a few trusted IPs. This is how it is done. 1. Make a list of [...]
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2 Comments »Email alert on root login
May 23rd, 2009 admin Do you wish to be notified by email whenever someone login to the server as root? The tip that you read below is useful if more than one admins know the server root password, and you want to know when and where they access the server from. To make this possible, just edit the file [...]