Security on Connected

Pluggable Authentication Modules - Linux

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 23:25:23 +0530

Linux-PAM is a system of libraries that handle the authentication tasks of applications (services) on the system.

Recording system events with auditd

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 21:15:13 +0530

auditing linux systems with auditd

Hands-on Intro to SBOM

Fri, 27 May 2022 22:56:22 +0530

The concept of a Bill Of Materials (BOM) is well-established in traditional manufacturing as part of supply chain management. A manufacturer uses a BOM to track the parts it uses to create a product. If defects are later found in a specific part, the BOM makes it easy to locate affected products. In software industry, this concept is fairly new and is used to keep track of all the ingredients of the software.

File-less malwares: what and how

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 23:43:01 +0530

What are file-less malwares? How do they work on linux? According to Wikipedia, file-less malware is a variant of computer related malicious software that exists exclusively as a computer memory-based artifact i.e. in RAM. In other words, the malware/program is never written to harddisk but directly loaded in memory. To get a better understanding of how that happens in linux, we need to understand how a normal program loads itself into memory and executes itself.

Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 14:25:28 +0530

Host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) for checking the integrity of files.

LUKS Disk Encryption

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 13:15:55 +0530

Linux Unified Key Encryption — Disk Encryption