The July issue of BSD Magazine is Out!
Kerberos on OpenBSD:
How to Manage User Passwords and Single-sign-on?
Download here: Kerberos on OpenBSD
Category Archives: BSD Magazine
BSD Magazine (Jun 2012): BSD Security Upgrade Your Skills
June’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: BSD Security. Upgrade your skills (free PDF download).
You’ll find the following subjects inside:
BSD Magazine (Mar 2012): Nessus, Exploitation Tools and Payloads
March’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: Nessus, Exploitation Tools and Payloads (free PDF download).
You’ll find the following subjects inside:
- MaheshaBSD-2.0: What’s New On The Lake Manasarovar?
- GhostBSD: A Brief Overview
- How Do I Study for the BSDA Certification?
- GDB and Truss for Debugging
- PostgreSQL: MVCC and Vacuum
- Beowulf Clusters with DragonflyBSD
- Npppd: EasyPPTP VPN with OpenBSD
- Anatomy of FreeBSD Compromise Part 4
Read and download Nessus, Exploitation Tools and Payloads (BSD Mag 12/03)
BSD Magazine (Feb 2012): BSD Certification: How? When? Why?
February’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: BSD Certification: How? When? Why? (free PDF download).
About 2 years ago the future of BSD Mag was uncertain, but we’re hoping we’re going to see another 12 issues this year. Well done to the editors and contributors!
Inside that latest issue you’ll find the following subjects:
Why Should I Become BSDA Certified?- Customizing Your PC-BSD 9.0 Desktop
- The MidnightBSD Package Management Tools
- What Can’t You Do On The command-line?
- PostgreSQL: From Installation to PITR
- OpenBSD with SUN JAVA & Netbeans
- Load Balancers. Enterprise Load & Service Availability
- Anatomy of FreeBSD Compromise Part 3
- Data Classification Policy
- Counting Our Losses
Read and download the magazine here: BSD Certification: How? When? Why
BSD Magazine – January 2012 issue is out
January’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: FreeBSD: Get Up-To-Date (free PDF download). You’ll find the following subjects:
- What’s New in FreeBSD 9.0 by Dru Lavigne
- Puppet on FreeBSD
- FreeBSD IPS With Snort Inline
- malloc(9): The Kernel’s General Purpose Memory Allocator
- Keeping FreeBSD’s Base System and Packages Up-To-Date
- Anatomy of a FreeBSD Compromise (Part 2)
- Home Brew Captive Portal With OpenBSD
Read or download this issue from: http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1784-freebsd-get-up-to-date.
Rolling Your Own Kernel (BSD Magazine 2011-12)
December’s issue of the BSD Magazine is available: Rolling Your Own Kernel.
- Free Issue to Download! BSD 12/2011
- Google Code-In and FreeBSD’s Participation
- Installing PC-BSD on a Mac
- Keeping Your Configuration Files Shiny as New Using sysmerge(8)
- Rolling Your Own FreeBSD Kernel
- OpenBSD 5.0: PHP, Cacti, and Symon
- Extracting Useful Information From Log Messages
- Anatomy of a FreeBSD Compromise (Part 1)
- Hardening BSD with Security Levels
- FreeBSD Foundation Update
The Inevitability of IPv6 (BSD Magazine 2011-10)
A new issue (October 2011) of the free BSD Magazine is now available: The Inevitability of IPv6 (pdf).
From the table of contents:
Configuring a FreeBSD Stealth Logging Server
The collection of log files provides security administrators with the ability to have an audit trail for the behavior of an information system. In the event that a system is compromised, remote logging provides a forensic trail to determine what occurred on the system.
DragonflyBSD News: Recovering Data With Hammer
It’s been a while since we had a straightforward news report for DragonFly; the time since then has been filled with reports on Hammer and bulk pkgsrc builds.
Using Openmaps Data With Geoserver
In this article in our GIS series, we will examine how to import Openmaps data. Open Street Map (openstreetmap.org) founded in July 2004 by Steve Coast, is a treasure trove of worldwide street maps available under the Creative Commons licence.
ONMP on OpenBSD 4.9
ONMP on OpenBSD 4.9OpenBSD is my BSD of choice. In fact, it is my OS of choice wherever possible. I always challenge those who disagree with me to name another OS with a similar track record for security.
OSSEC on OpenBSD (ONMP) 4.9
It is worth saying up front that these instructions assume that you’re running Nginx compiled from source vice Apache or Nginx from Ports or Packages.
Taking a Peek Under the Hood Without Compromising Security – LibGTop and OpenBSD
LibGTop allows developers to peek under the hood of the kernel and export lots of system data in a convenient and easy to use library.
Protecting Apache From Dos And Ddos Attacks
DOS or DDOS, it is an attack where multiple compromised systems (which are usually infected with a Trojan) are used to target a single system in attempt to make the system resources(cpu,memory,network) unavailable to its intended users and causing system to crash.
The Inevitability of IPv6, Part 1 & 2
Part 1: A switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is on your horizon. Are you ready for it?
Part 2: Configure IPv6 in your network – even if your routing infrastructure doesn’t yet support it.
BSD Mag (Oct 2011) – The Inevitability of IPv6
Protecting dynamic websites in FreeBSD (BSD Magazine 2011-09)
A new, free to download, issue of the BSD Magazine (September 201) is now available: Protecting dynamic websites in FreeBSD (pdf).
From the table of contents:
- DNSSEC resolution and IPv6 Unbound on FreeBSD 8.2
- Keeping up to date in PC-BSD 9
- Using Life Preserver to Backup a PC-BSD 9.0 System to FreeNAS™ 8.0.1
- Recovering data with hammer
- Apache2, php5, mysql5, modsecurity2.5 installation and confguration in order to protect dynamic websites from various attacks, in Freebsd 8.2
- MySQL Unleashed!
- Terminal Descriptions for OpenBSD AMD/Intel consoles
- (Ab)using VideoLAN: Learn what you can do with your video and audio using powerful VideoLAN command line interface
- NetBSD Intrusion Detection Server. How can we describe the functions of such a server?