Pakt Publishing WordPress Month!

Many of you know I do book reviews for Pakt Publishing. Well this month is their WordPress Month where they are offering some great special offers on some cool WordPress books. This is the software that runs bunches of your favorite websites, including this one 🙂 So, head on over to http://www.packtpub.com/article/wordpress-month and get a […]

Book Review – BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

Right after I got this book, Backtrack 5 was released. My intention was to go through the book and compare/contrast things to Backtrack 5. Well, we all know the saying about the best layed plans… That being said, I believe the information in this book to be directly applicable to Backtrack 5 and a good […]

Mint 11 Boot Splash

I have seen a lot of commenting on the decision to use a black screen as the boot splash on Linux Mint 11. One person summed it up well when they said that that black screen is indicative in many other operating systems as something going wrong and it tends to scare people. Well, that […]

Why I use OSSEC

There are some great reasons to use OSSEC. One of them is you get emails like these I received this morning: Jun 10 09:24:51 pukwudgie sshd[28651]: Failed password for invalid user pureftp from 202.121.49.62 port 45542 ssh2 Jun 10 09:24:48 pukwudgie sshd[28651]: Invalid user pureftp from 202.121.49.62 Jun 10 09:24:29 pukwudgie sshd[28630]: Failed password for […]

Please excuse the mess…

Something odd with the LinuxPlanet.Org blog site right now. Many multiple posts. I hope i have a handle on it and this is the test! Please disregard 🙂

Mint 11 / Ubuntu 11.04 – vpnc+ssh issue

Yes, I know.. Long time since a post, but I have been waiting ’till I had something interesting to comment on 🙂 You should all know by now that Ubuntu 11.04 and Mint 11 are now out in the wild, and both are very nice IMHO. I have been a “Minty” guy now for quite […]