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How To Configure Port Knocking Using Only Iptables on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Port Knocking Using Only Iptables on an Ubuntu VPS

Port knocking is a method of hiding services behind a firewall until a specific sequence of network activity occurs. After detecting this, the firewall is dynamically reconfigured to expose the requested service for the client who completed the specific sequence of activity. In this article, we will discuss how to implement a port knocking mechanism on an Ubuntu VPS using only the tools available within the iptables package.

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How To Configure Suricata as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Suricata as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial you will learn how to configure Suricata’s built-in Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) mode. When you enable IPS mode, Suricata can actively drop suspicious network traffic in addition to generating alerts. Once you know which signatures you would like to use in IPS mode, you’ll convert their default action to drop or reject traffic. With your signatures in place, you’ll learn how to send network traffic through Suricata using the netfilter NFQUEUE iptables target.

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How To Control URLs and Links in Jekyll — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Control URLs and Links in Jekyll

In Part 3 of this series, we look at how Jekyll creates URLs and show how to change the pattern for an individual file or the entire site. Then we look a how to link to pages within our site and stage it for testing.

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