General security

VLAN hacking

In Virtual LAN or VLAN is a group of hosts communicate with each other, even thoughthey are in different physical location. Virtual LAN provides location ind

A history of anonymous

Anonymous is the most famous 'hacktivist' group in the world. The informal nature of the group makes its mechanics difficult to define. Subsequently, without

Understanding the Public Key Infrastructure behind SSL secured websites

Synopsis: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has recently been the focus of several important discussions within the information security community due to high

Are your backup systems secure?

All seemed well with backup operations at my company, until I got a visit from an operations center engineer.  The lock already hanging open, he was holding

Grep Essentials

grep The grep utility, which allows files to be searched for strings of words, uses a syntax similar to the regular expression syntax of the vi, ex, ed, and