In conjunction with fail2ban, SSH key authentication is a great way to prevent unwanted SSH logins. And there you have it -- five easy ways of securing SSH on both your Linux desktops and servers.

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If you like to have ready-to-go access to remote machines (or a home server, perhaps) from your Linux desktop, you might have noticed that you can't a ...

If you connect to remote computers over the Internet, it is a pretty good chance you use some form of SSH or secure shell. On Linux or Unix you’ll use the ssh command. Same goes for Linux-like ...

If you need remote access to a machine, you'll probably use SSH, and for a good reason. The secure shell protocol uses modern cryptography methods to provide privacy and confidentiality, even over an ...

Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2022.1, the first version of 2022, with improved accessibility features, a visual refresh, SSH wide compatibility, and of course, new toys to play with!

If you have Linux servers that allow remote connection via SSH, you might want to limit the number of users allowed to log in.

A new botnet called 'RapperBot' has emerged in the wild since mid-June 2022, focusing on brute-forcing its way into Linux SSH servers and then establishing persistence.

On the rare occasion that my Linux desktop freezes, I have a few tricks up my sleeve that keep me from having to do a hard reboot on my machine.

OpenBSD has recently stressed to us the value of key rotation by their use of “Signify” distribution release signatures. We have realized that SSH keys should also rotate, to reduce the risk of ...