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Bastille support for OS X is in CVS now.

A short list of background processes and daemons running in Mac OS X.

Secrets of Network Cartography: A Comprehensive Guide to nmap

VPNlabs is an open community for researching, reviewing, and discussing Virtual Private Networks.

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.

Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE) project

openSIMS is a Security Infrastructure Management Systems distributed as an open source project through SourceForge, using a modified Mozilla Public License. OpenSIMS ties together the open source tools used for security event management into a common infrastructure. These tools include NMap, Snort, and many others. The best way to experience openSIMS is by downloading the openSIMS liveCD.

A Windows password cracker based on the faster time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is an evolution of the original Ophcrack 1.0 developed at EPFL. Ophrack 2.2 comes with a GTK Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows as well as on Linux.

An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting

Aanval is the industries only correlation and analysis console designed specifically for Snort and Syslog data.

It's that time of year again, when I get to work on new features (instead of supporting the old ones). With a major change to the version number of the way I took the opportunity to introduce major improvements too. ModSecurity 2.0.0-dev1 is available right now and it offers the following major improvements:

This all-purpose guide for locking down Apache arms readers with all the information they need to securely deploy applications. Administrators and programmers alike will benefit from a concise introduction to the theory of securing Apache, plus a wealth of practical advice and real-life examples. Topics covered include installation, server sharing, logging and monitoring, web applications, PHP and SSL/TLS, and more.

Ports List (Well Known Ports)

SSL Encrypting Syslog via Stunnel

Server Security Guideline

Mac Security: Identifying Changes to the File System

EtherApe is a graphical network monitor for Unix modeled after etherman. Featuring link layer, ip and TCP modes, it displays network activity graphically. Hosts and links change in size with traffic. Color coded protocols display. It supports Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, ISDN, PPP and SLIP devices. It can filter traffic to be shown, and can read traffic from a file as well as live from the network.

Checklist: How to test SQL Server security

Empowering Web Developers Since 1997 : New Articles, Fresh Thinking for Web Developers and Designers

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This section provides several checklists that will help you collect the information you need to successfully install SCO OpenServer. If you complete these checklists, the installation will go more quickly and you will have a written log of your responses, in case you ever need to troubleshoot or reinstall your system.

HOWTO Restore GRUB