Article by James Hawkins As we all know, Nmap (Network Mapper) is a stealth port scanner widely used by network security experts (including forensics & Pen-testing Experts). In this article we’ll see the different types of Nmap Scans, its techniques, understanding the purpose and goals of each scan , its advantages or disadvantages over other […]
Tmux – the Terminal multiplexer
In a former article i’ve show how to use Screen and Byobu, in short Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells) while Byobu is an elegant enhancement of the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen. Byobu includes an enhanced profile and configuration utilities for the […]
Top 8 worst suggestions on Linux
This is my personal Top 8 of worst suggestions I’ve read, took or gave to other Linux users so far, feel free to add your as comment. Legend: Q: Question, BA: The bad answer, GA : What could have been a good answer 1) Q: I have a file i can’t read/write/execute with the user […]
A quick look at Mageia 1 and Mandriva 2011
As first thing i must say that I’ve never used this “line” of distributions, in the past when i wanted to use .rpm packages I used the Red Hat family Distributions, and then I moved to .deb distributions and Gentoo. So It’s my first time with these 2 distributions, let’s see if Mageia has surpassed […]
Aliaser take control of your alias on Linux
Alias are a great tool to help increment your productivity on the terminal with bash (or any shell program you’re using), but usually we are too lazy to think at what are the most common, or long commands that we use frequently and prepare an alias for them. And so someone has done a small […]