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How To Install Suricata on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Suricata on Ubuntu 20.04

Suricata is a Network Security Monitoring (NSM) tool that uses sets of community created and user defined signatures (also referred to as rules) to examine and process network traffic. Suricata can generate log events, trigger alerts, and drop traffic when it detects suspicious packets or requests to any number of different services running on a server.

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How To Protect SSH With Fail2Ban on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH With Fail2Ban on CentOS 7

While connecting to your server through SSH can be very secure, the SSH daemon itself is a service that must be exposed to the internet to function properly. This comes with some inherent risk and offers a vector of attack for would-be assailants.

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How To Secure React Applications Against XSS Attacks with HTTP-Only Cookies — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure React Applications Against XSS Attacks with HTTP-Only Cookies

In this tutorial, you will create a React application and mock API that implements a token-based authentication system set up in a local Docker container. You will exploit the token storage method with a cross-site scripting attack, then mitigate the issue with HTTP-only cookies. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand the security considerations needed to implement a functioning token-based authentication system alongside a React and Node web application.

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