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We are pleased to interview Oliver Pinter and Shawn Webb, the core developers of the HardenedBSD project.

Founded in 2014, the project aims to be a security enhanced FreeBSD, with modern technologies like exploit mitigation known as PAX and ASLR but also introduces a bunch of new sysctls to the …

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Let's learn how to execute commands in a jail by referring to the jail name instead of the jail number.

Suppose you have set up two jails, namely "mail" and "www". The first is to run your mailserver, the second to run your webserver in a secure jail environment. Each …

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When you work with a squid access log file you sometimes want to know when a site or resource was accessed. Squid does not store the date and time information for that in a human readable format.

It is stored as <unix timestamp>.<centisecond> so you can use a command …

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Nginx is a great webserver that is flexible, feature rich and fairly well documented. But have you ever wanted to whitelist files upon their extensions and did not find a solution in the documentation reference? The bad answer is you will not find it. The good answer is: It is …

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