Ubuntu Unleashed: The Top Security Tools in the Ubuntu with 1 click Installation!

Ubuntu Unleashed: The Top Security Tools in the Ubuntu Repositories you may not know about with 1 click Installation!

Here is a collection of security tools that you should look through to add to your arsenal to help keep the peace on your pc/network or unleash war on others for whatever reason.

Most of these are command line tools which need to be invoked via the Terminal:
Applications->Accessories->Terminal

If you need help with these tools, please read the manual via man “application” in the terminal, and feel free to comment if you need a little assistance or care to add to this growing list

Amazon EC2 Basics For The Curious | Django Aware

Amazon EC2 Basics For The Curious | Django Aware

Amazon EC2 Basics For The Curious By Paul Kenjora | June 3, 2008

For those of you wondering what it would be like to host and maintain a an application on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) here is a basic list of daily operations. These steps assume you’ve set up your Amazon account. This is the basic set of commands you can use to fully administer an EC2 server.

Building Snort 2.8.0 on MAC OSX 10.5 (Leopard)

snort-devel [Snort-devel] Building Snort 2.8.0 on MAC OSX 10.5 (Leopard)
From: Steven Sturges <steve.sturges@sourcefire.com>

For those who use Snort on a MAC, this might be helpful…

The following is courtesy of Martin Fong, who’s helped us track down
an issue seen when starting Snort w/ dynamic preprocessor libraries
on MAC OSX 10.5. The text below will be included with in the
MAC OSX section of doc/INSTALL in the next release as well.

——
For users of Max OSX 10.5 (Leopard), the following environment variables
must be set before running configure & make.

Reference information for MAC OSX 10.5 (Leopard) can be found at these
two links.

http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/Darwin/SymbolVariantsRelNotes

http://lists.apple.com/archives/xcode-users/2007/Jun/msg00163.html

$ export LD_TWOLEVEL_NAMESPACE=1
$ export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
$ ./configure
$ make
——

Also, with Snort 2.8.0, the dynamicengine line in the default
snort.conf must be updated to load libsf_engine.dylib, instead of
libsf_engine.so. The following line:

dynamicengine /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicengine/libsf_engine.so

Should be changed to:

dynamicengine /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicengine/libsf_engine.dylib

Happy (MAC) Snorting. :)

Cheers.
-steve

Update:

If you run into a Bus error:

* MAC OSX
———
On Darwin (maybe others), the configure script shipped as part of the
source distribution needs to be recreated. To do this, run the
following commands:

aclocal -I m4
autoheader
automake –add-missing –copy
autoconf

If you plan to use the dynamic plugin capability (ie,
configure –enable-dynamicplugin), snort needs to be linked using
the two level namespace. To do this, set the LD_TWOLEVEL_NAMESPACE
environment variable to something prior to running configure.
An example:

$ export LD_TWOLEVEL_NAMESPACE=1
$ export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
$ configure –enable-dynamicplugin

Google Web Toolkit – Google Code

Google Web Toolkit – Google Code
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) makes it easier to write high-performance AJAX applications. You write your front end in the Java programming language and GWT compiles your source into highly optimized JavaScript. Writing web apps today is a tedious and error-prone process. You spend 90% of your time working around browser quirks, and JavaScript’s lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile. It doesn’t have to be that way.

High performance JavaScript. GWT produces AJAX apps that:

* Load faster than hand-written JavaScript apps
* Use smaller, more compact, cacheable code
* Automatically support IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and Opera
* Use the browser’s “back” button correctly

Better development tools. Since you’re writing in Java, you can use:

* IDEs that you love like Eclipse, IntelliJ, and NetBeans
* Full-featured debugging, with variable watches and breakpoints
* Unit tests (based on JUnit) both in a debugger and in a browser

Google APIs and reusable UI components. GWT comes equipped with useful libraries:

* Built-in UI components serve as cross-browser building blocks for your app
* RPC helps with client-server interaction
* JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI) simplifies integrating GWT code with existing JavaScript code

Mac OS X Security Configuration Guides -Apple.com

Apple – Support – Security Configuration Guides
The Security Configuration Guides provide an overview of features in Mac OS X that can be used to enhance security, known as hardening your computer.

The guides are designed to give instructions and recommendations for securing Mac OS X and for maintaining a secure computer.

To use these guides, you should be an experienced Mac OS X user, be familiar with the Mac OS X user interface, and have at least some experience using the Terminal application’s command-line interface. You should also be familiar with basic networking concepts.

Certain instructions in the guides are complex, and deviation could result in serious adverse effects on the computer and its security. The guides should only be used by experienced Mac OS X users, and any changes made to your settings should be thoroughly tested.

What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB

Announced today, Amazon SimpleDB is an amazingly simple, highly available, fast, massively scalable, on-demand, schema-free database cluster built in the same spirit as Amazon S3 and EC2. Check out this article and see what you can do with it.

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