In this final installment of the series, I present examples based on actual cases I’ve encountered where these tools were utilized to solve the problem. In the first example, a small network with a ...

One thing about building home local area networks (LANs) is that the more you add to it, the more things can go wrong. Even when things are running smoothly, I still want to know what's going on so I ...

In today's digital world, cybersecurity threats are ever-growing, making ethical hacking and penetration testing crucial components of modern security practices. Ethical hacking involves legally ...

Tor has announced Oniux, a new command-line tool for routing any Linux application securely through the Tor network for anonymized network connections. Unlike classic methods like torsocks, which rely ...

Free tools, low power use, and zero noise—this setup actually holds up.

One of the big advantages of using Linux is that its security tends to be so much better than that of the competing alternatives. One of the big advantages of using Linux is that its security tends to ...

The popular penetration-testing distribution Kali Linux has dropped its latest quarterly snapshot: version 2025.3. This release continues the tradition of the rolling-release model used by the project ...

Computerworld recently showcased 10 great free network management tools. Readers responded with some of their own favorites, so I’m going to take a look at those tools and report on their capabilities ...

What you should back up depends on how you use your PC. As a rule, a regular backup of the home directories is sufficient. This protects against data loss—for example, if an important file is ...

An Israeli vendor was able to evade several leading Linux runtime security tools using a new proof-of-concept (PoC) rootkit that it claims reveals the limitations of many products in this space. The ...