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How To Install and Secure Memcached on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure Memcached on Ubuntu 18.04

Memory object caching systems like Memcached can optimize backend database performance by temporarily storing information in memory, retaining frequently or recently requested records. In this guide, we will cover how to protect your Memcached server by binding your installation to a local or private interface and creating an authorized user for your Memcached instance.

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How To Install and Secure Redis on CentOS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure Redis on CentOS

This tutorial provides instructions for installing Redis on a CentOS 7 server and using its built-in security features, in coordination with some other security configurations, to keep it from being accessed by unauthorized users.

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Iptablesファイアウォールルールを一覧表示および削除する方法 — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

Iptablesファイアウォールルールを一覧表示および削除する方法

Iptablesは、多くのLinuxシステムのネットワークセキュリティで重要な役割を果たすファイアウォール技術です。このチュートリアルでは、次のiptablesタスクの実行方法について説明します。ルールの一覧表示、パケットおよびバイトカウンタのクリア、ルールの削除、チェーンのフラッシュ(チェーン内のすべてのルールの削除)、iptablesファイアウォールの完全なリセット。

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How To Protect an Nginx Server with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect an Nginx Server with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 20.04

In this guide, you will learn how to install `fail2ban` on a Ubuntu 20.04 server and configure it to monitor your Nginx logs for intrusion attempts. Fail2ban can significantly mitigate brute force attacks by creating rules that automatically alter your firewall configuration to ban specific IPs after a certain number of unsuccessful login attempts. This will allow your server to harden itself against these access attempts without intervention from you.

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How To Protect Your Server Against the Dirty COW Linux Vulnerability — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect Your Server Against the Dirty COW Linux Vulnerability

On October 21, 2016, a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel was disclosed. The bug is nicknamed Dirty COW because the underlying issue was a race condition in the way kernel handles copy-on-write (COW). Exploiting this bug means that a regular, unprivileged user on your server can gain write access to any file they can read, and can therefore increase their privileges on the system. This tutorial explains how to protect your server from this vulnerability.

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How To Secure GitLab with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure GitLab with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04

GitLab, specifically GitLab CE (Community Edition), is an open source application primarily used to host Git repositories, with additional development-related features like issue tracking. The GitLab project makes it relatively straight forward to set up a GitLab instance on…

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How To Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Let’s Encrypt to obtain a free SSL certificate and use it with Nginx on CentOS 7. We will also show you how to automatically renew your SSL certificate. If you’re running a different web server, simply follow your web server’s documentation to learn how to use the certificate with your setup.

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