If you work on remotely connected machines, most likely you’re going to use SSH to secure your connections. But, what if you just want to work with files on a remote server, but find SSH file transfer tedious in repetition and establishing a VPN tunnel is too complicated?
What you’re looking for is a simple tool [...]

Windows remote desktop (RDP) is an extremely useful way to have access to your computer’s desktop from everywhere. Suppose you need to connect to your work computer through RDP, but your company’s IT staff configured the firewalls to block all remote connections except secure connections (e.g. SSH). This is just an example scenario where you [...]

Practically all UNIX-based servers run a SSH server to allow remote administration across the Internet. From time to time, you might notice a large number of failed login attempts. Often, these are brute-force attacks against your SSH server
In this hack, we’ll show you 5 tips to protect machines running SSH daemons from brute-force attacks.

While the adoption of web applications for conducting online business has enabled companies to connect seamlessly with their customers, it has also exposed a number of security concerns stemming from improper coding. Vulnerabilities in web applications allow hackers to gain direct and public access to sensitive information (e.g. personal data, login credentials).
Web applications allow visitors [...]

Suppose you’re at an open wireless hotspot and wish to connect the Samba server from your Windows laptop, but you don’t want to send data (documents, authentication hashes etc.) over the air in plain text.
Using SSH tunnels, you can encrypt all your network traffic and redirect it through a trusted computer when you’re connected to [...]

Hidden shares are special shares identified by the dollar sign ($) at the end of the share name. By default, Windows automatically creates administrative shares for each logical disk on your system in addition to another share called ADMIN$ for the Windows root directory.
Although these shares are designed for remote management and accessible only to [...]

VoIPong is a free VoIP sniffer that detects all Voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls and gateways on a pipeline and produces audio files. It supports several types of VoIP protocols: SIP, H.323, Skinny Client Protocol, G711, RTP and RTCP.
A liveCD version, based on the FreeSBIE project, is also available. It has a pre-installed VoIPong release along with [...]