Unix security refers to the means of securing a Unix or Unix-like operating system. A core security feature in these systems is the file system permissions...
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Md5sum (redirect from Md5sum (Unix))
error or non-malicious meddling. The md5sum program is included in most Unix-like operating systems or compatibility layers such as Cygwin. The original...
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The Unix command su, which stands for 'substitute user' (or historically 'superuser'), is used by a computer user to execute commands with the privileges...
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IPsec (redirect from Encapsulating Security Payload)
(1996). "Problem Areas for the IP Security Protocols" (PostScript). Proceedings of the Sixth Usenix Unix Security Symposium. San Jose, CA. pp. 1–16....
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Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by AT&T and...
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and DAC) within a UNIX (more precisely, POSIX) computing environment can be attributed to the National Security Agency's Trusted UNIX (TRUSIX) Working...
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Suricata (software) (category Unix security-related software)
intrusion prevention system (IPS). It was developed by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). A beta version was released in December 2009, with the...
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(Confining the Wily Hacker)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Sixth USENIX UNIX Security Symposium. Retrieved 25 October 2011. Geier, Eric (2012-01-16). "How...
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shred is a command on Unix-like operating systems that can be used to securely delete files and devices so that it is extremely difficult to recover them...
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File-system permissions (redirect from Unix permission)
"The How and Why of User Private Groups in Unix". security.ias.edu. Institute for Advanced Study Network Security. Archived from the original on 8 August...
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BeyondTrust (category Unix security-related software)
client-server computing vendor, before later acquiring a license for the UNIX security product UPM (now owned by Quest Software) and rebranding their version...
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Lynis (category Unix security-related software)
Lynis is an extensible security audit tool for computer systems running Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, OpenBSD, Solaris, and other Unix derivatives. It assists...
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Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/ , YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T...
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When a text file with a shebang is used as if it were an executable in a Unix-like operating system, the program loader mechanism parses the rest of the...
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Berkeley r-commands (redirect from Rcp (Unix))
became de facto standards for Unix operating systems. With wider public adoption of the Internet, their inherent security vulnerabilities became a problem...
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too weak to provide any security against brute-force attacks by modern, commodity personal computers. Some versions of Unix shipped with an even weaker...
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utility for Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems and beyond, the primary purpose of which is to convert and copy files. On Unix, device...
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srm (or Secure Remove) is a command line utility for Unix-like computer systems for secure file deletion. srm removes each specified file by overwriting...
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P0f (category Unix security software)
p0f is a passive TCP/IP stack fingerprinting tool. p0f can attempt to identify the system running on machines that send network traffic to the box it is...
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Firewall security log According to Stefan Axelsson, "Most UNIX installations do not run any form of security logging software, mainly because the security logging...
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Rkhunter (category Unix security-related software)
rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of...
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sum is a legacy utility available on some Unix and Unix-like operating systems. This utility outputs a 16-bit checksum of each argument file, as well...
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SquidGuard (category Unix security-related software)
sites for which access is redirected. SquidGuard must be installed on a Unix or Linux computer such as a server computer. The software's filtering extends...
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UUCP (redirect from Unix to Unix Copy Protocol)
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between...
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SuEXEC (category Unix security-related software)
Additionally, suEXEC perform a multi-step check on the executed CGI to ensure security for the server (including path-checks, a limit of permitted commands, etc...
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Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its...
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Passwd (category Unix authentication-related software)
passwd is a command on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and most Unix-like operating systems used to change a user's password. The password entered by the user is...
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Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (category Unix security software)
with Richard van den Berg, an independent Dutch security consultant. The project is used on many Unix-like systems as an inexpensive baseline control...
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In Unix, Plan 9, and Unix-like operating systems, the strip program removes information from executable binary programs and object files that is not essential...
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