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May Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

As many of you know, most firewalls today come with a default rule set permitting all outbound traffic to flow freely. You put the firewall in place, and traffic flows outbound unimpeded. When command and control (CNC) malware is installed it needs to phone home. They are priceless! The necessity of outbound traffic filtering.

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May Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

As many of you know, most firewalls today come with a default rule set permitting all outbound traffic to flow freely. You put the firewall in place, and traffic flows outbound unimpeded. When command and control (CNC) malware is installed it needs to phone home. They are priceless! The necessity of outbound traffic filtering.

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May Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

As many of you know, most firewalls today come with a default rule set permitting all outbound traffic to flow freely. You put the firewall in place, and traffic flows outbound unimpeded. When command and control (CNC) malware is installed it needs to phone home. They are priceless! The necessity of outbound traffic filtering.

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Technology Short Take 132

Scott Lowe

” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take 139

Scott Lowe

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Servers/Hardware. Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. ” Get ready to get nerdy!

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

So he invites me to go to a book that, you know, one of those first black hats and Doug Song was set doing his thing on checkpoint firewall bypass, and I'm sitting there, and a guy named Jeff Nathan. Let's analyze malware. I was living in Alameda off of the Navy base there. Come sit next to me. Let's analyze stuff. That was really fun.