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How To Configure vsftpd to Use SSL/TLS on a CentOS VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure vsftpd to Use SSL/TLS on a CentOS VPS

FTP was a popular file sharing mechanism for network connected computers in the past. However, its usage has fallen out of favor due to inherent security flaws. In this guide, we will discuss how to use SSL/TLS to improve the security of your FTP sessions if you must continue to use this protocol.

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How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 14.04

The Apache web server is the most popular way to serve content on the web. If you need to communicate with your site visitors over a secured connection, setting up a TLS or SSL certificate will enable you to encrypt traffic. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to create a self-signed SSL certificate on Ubuntu 14.04 and use it with Apache to encrypt traffic.

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How To Disable Root Login on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Disable Root Login on Ubuntu 20.04

All Linux-based machines come with a default root user that has all privileges on the machine. Good security practices recommend that you disable the root login over SSH to prevent unauthorized access to your Linux-based machine by any other user. Disabling root login prevents root access over SSH to your Linux-based machine, which means that no one will have unlimited privileges.

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How To Harden OpenSSH Client on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Harden OpenSSH Client on Ubuntu 18.04

Linux servers are often administered remotely using SSH by connecting to an OpenSSH server, which is the default SSH server software used within Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD, and most other Linux/BSD-based systems. Significant effort is put into securing the server-side aspect of SSH, as SSH acts as the entry into your server. In this tutorial, you will harden your OpenSSH client in order to help ensure that outgoing SSH connections are as secure as possible.

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How To Host a Website Using Cloudflare and Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Host a Website Using Cloudflare and Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial you will secure your website served by Nginx with an Origin CA certificate from Cloudflare and configure Nginx to use authenticated pull requests. The advantages of using this setup are that you benefit from Cloudflare’s CDN and fast DNS resolution while ensuring that all connections pass through Cloudflare. This prevents any malicious requests from reaching your server.

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How To Install and Secure Memcached on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure Memcached on Ubuntu 20.04

In this guide, you will learn how to install and configure a Memcached server. You’ll also learn how to add authentication to secure Memcached using Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL). Finally, you’ll learn how to bind Memcached to a local or private network interface to ensure that it is only accessible on trusted networks, by authenticated users.

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