Here’s another deep chink in the armor of the braindead zealots who claim Linux is inherently more secure than Windows. Julien Tinnes and Tavis Ormandy have found what could be the widest ranging vulnerability yet discovered in the Linux kernel.
Affected versions include all Linux 2.4 and2.6 versions since May 2001. This spans 2.4.4 up to [...]
Install CVS files:
sudo apt-get install cvs
Install the CVS server:
sudo apt-get install cvsd
When prompted in the cvsd installation process for Repository, type in “/cvsrepo”.
Now that the cvsd installation in complete goto /var/lib/cvsd
or seeking for a change(or if there is a new version of cvs updated):
sudo cvsd-buildroot /var/lib/cvsd
If the folder cvsrepo does not exist, then create it [...]
Ipkungfu or linuxkungfu is an iptables firewall script. With ipkungfu, you can easily configure as to which port of the server will be opened for connection, restrict who can access the server plus other security features. You can refer to the website of ipkungfu at http://www.linuxkungfu.org/ for the list of complete features.
Ipkungfu is available a [...]
open a terminal and enter:
apt-get install nmap
sudo visudo
Find: root ALL= (ALL) ALL
Replace with: root ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Save that file.