September 7, 2008
The Great Zero Challenge: A challenge to confirm whether or not a professional data recovery firm or any individual(s) or organization(s) can recover data from a hard drive that has been overwritten with zeros once. All they used is the Unix dd command using /dev/zero as input to overwrite the drive.
They are doing this because [...]
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February 4, 2008
Besides manual security hardening of a Linux OS, let’s check out a free open-source tool to automate and simplify the process. Bastille will disable unnecessary services and install operating system updates as well as configure a firewall, enforce password policies, create a second root-level account and more. What’s nice is that Bastille leads the user [...]
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