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Further notes on custom live CD security.
Use encrypted folders with your custom live CD.
Make your desktop completely portable with a custom live CD.
Use old-school administration skills to benefit from modern tools on Ubuntu Server.
Securing Ubuntu is as straightforward as installing it.
The examples used here were not invented. This article is really, really scary.
Keep your passwords safe in an encrypted file.
Start on “the Path” to a more secure system.
Trolltech's Qtopia SXE takes a stab at making open-source phones more secure.
A break-in can happen to any system administrator. Find out how to use Autopsy and Sleuthkit to hit the ground running on your first forensics project.
Hack, analyze and learn from an intentionally insecure Web application.
The perfect NAC solution for both wired and wireless networks.
Explore hidden secrets of the DNS hierarchy with a benign and systematic diagnostic and audit methodology using readily available tools.
Stored procedures bring the legacy advantages and challenges to MySQL.
Single sign-on dictated by user roles with Perl and Ruby.
A real-world case where SELinux proved its worth.
Lock down access to SSH with Single Packet Authorization.
A new cryptographic filesystem in the Linux kernel uses stacking technology.
How to set up and use the powerful open-source network access control solution.
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September 2008, #173

Feeling a bit like a Thermian? Never give up, never surrender! Someday, you could go from underdog to top dog. Just take a look at a few of the underdogs we highlight in this issue: Mutt, djbdns, Nginix, Gentoo, Xara and the program voted mostly likely to fail just a few years back—Firefox. If Firefox is not radical enough for you, check out Chef Marcel's column for some more alternatives. Having trouble mapping your program data to your relational database? If so, Rueven Lerner shows you some tricks in his At The Forge column.

Need to run GUI applications on your server in the next state? In his Paranoid Penguin column, Mick Bauer shows you how to do it securely. Kyle Rankin keeps hacking and slashing and shows you a few split screen secrets you may not be familiar with. Finally, we all know what happens next February, but only Doc knows what happens afterward.

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