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How To Set Up ModSecurity with Apache on Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up ModSecurity with Apache on Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian 8

ModSecurity is a free web application firewall (WAF) that works with Apache, Nginx and IIS. It supports a flexible rule engine to perform simple and complex operations and comes with a Core Rule Set (CRS) which has rules for many exploits. For Apache, it is loaded as an additional module which makes it easy to install and configure. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and configure ModSecurity and create custom rules.

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How To Set Up SSH Keys on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up SSH Keys on Ubuntu 12.04

SSH keys provide a more secure method of logging into a server than using a password. With SSH keys, users can log into a server without a password. This tutorial explains how to generate, upload, and use an SSH key pair, and optionally how to disable password-based SSH authentication.

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How to Set Up SSH Keys on Rocky Linux 9 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up SSH Keys on Rocky Linux 9

SSH, or secure shell, is an encrypted protocol used to administer and communicate with servers. When working with a Rocky Linux server, chances are you will spend most of your time in a terminal session connected to your server through SSH. In this guide, we’ll focus on getting a reliable SSH configuration set up.

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How To Set Up SSL Certificates With PhpMyAdmin On An Ubuntu 12.04 VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up SSL Certificates With PhpMyAdmin On An Ubuntu 12.04 VPS

PhpMyAdmin is a web-based front end used to configure MySQL databases in a graphical interface. While this software is very useful and can make managing databases easy, without SSL and the proper precautions, you could be exposing sensitive data to the internet. This guide shows you how to better secure your PhpMyAdmin installation.

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How To Use DM-Crypt to Create an Encrypted Volume on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use DM-Crypt to Create an Encrypted Volume on an Ubuntu VPS

Encrypting your data is a great way to ensure that nobody will have access to your sensitive information if they ever get access to your server. There are many possible uses for this, such as making it easier to decommission servers with sensitive data, storing uncommonly accessed but important files, etc. In this guide, we will discuss how to use dm-crypt to create create an encrypted volume out of a regular empty file.

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How To Use the Linux Auditing System on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use the Linux Auditing System on CentOS 7

The Linux Auditing System helps system administrators create an audit trail, a log for every action on the server. We can track security-relevant events, record the events in a log file, and detect misuse or unauthorized activities by inspecting the audit log files.

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Ersteinrichtung des Servers mit Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Ersteinrichtung des Servers mit Ubuntu 20.04

Wenn Sie erstmals einen neuen Ubuntu 20.04 Server einrichten, sollten Sie im Rahmen der grundlegenden Einrichtung einige wichtige Konfigurationsschritte ausführen. Dadurch erhöhen Sie die Sicherheit und Benutzerfreundlichkeit Ihres Servers und haben eine solide Grundlage für…

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