firewall – POFTUT

What Is A Firewall and How Its Work?

Today Firewall is depicted as the main component of the security and networks. Firewalls provide a lot of different operations and features. In the old days, the firewall was simply used to block or allow some ports and management of the NAT. These days there are a lot of different threats where the firewall is … Read more

How To Save and Restore Iptables Rules Permanently In Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Kali, Mint?

Iptables is standard and popular firewall provides by Linux distributions like Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Debian etc. Iptables rules are managed in run time where a lot of rules are added, changed and remove. These changes are temporary changes where only running configuration is changed but do not saved temporarily. In this tutorial we will look … Read more

How To Start, Stop and Enable, Disable Iptables or Ufw In Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, Mint

Ubuntu is popular Linux distribution used in different enterprise or personal IT environment. Security is important part of the today IT. We can use firewall services like iptables in order to tighten security of our Ubuntu system. In this tutorial we will look how to install, remove, enable, disable, start and stop Ubuntu iptables. This tutorial … Read more

How To Enable Powershell Remoting PSRemoting or WinRM?

Linux operating systems provide GUI or command line access from its first days. But Windows operating systems are generally managed with only GUI which is generally Remote Desktop. The changes in IT made mass management or orchestration a must for system administrators. Windows have created Powershell for detailed and efficient command line shell and tools. … Read more

How To Manage Windows Firewall From Command Line With Netsh Command?

Windows firewall is a useful mechanism which is used to control network traffic and ports. There are different ways to manage Windows firewall like GUI, Powershell and MS-DOS. Today we will look in detail how to manage windows firewall from command line with a popular tool named netsh . Netsh is a built-in tool which exists … Read more

How To Secure Linux, Unix, Windows Servers and IT Systems?

Servers provide different types of infrastructures to implement different solutions for IT. Security is another issue that must be solved in the IT area. In recent years security became a need. In this tutorial, we will look at how to secure our servers. Patching Operating systems use a lot of internal and external tools and … Read more

What Is Pfsense and Its Features?

What Is Pfsense and Its Features?

Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco ACS, and others, all of them are enterprise, popular and good firewalls. But all of them require some price to pay. Is there any free alternative to these enterprise firewalls? Yes, there are a lot but most of them are not a competitor for them. Pfsense is the most advanced, powerful, … Read more

How To Enable BitTorrent Ports In Linux Firewall?

BitTorrent is a distributed file-sharing protocol. There is a lot of different type of applications using the BitTorrent protocol. There is a lot of advantages to using BitTorrent from different points. It saves and balances global download traffic. Accelerates client-side download speed. But some times there are port-related problems that blocks or slow down the … Read more

How To Use Owasp Vbscan?

VBscan is a security tool used to scan and find vulnerabilities in vBulletin forums. As we know these type of software have a lot of vulnerabilities to exploit and attackers use these very good. Credits goes to Mohammed Reza Espargham Install Installing Vbscan is just getting perl code from github. $ git clone https://github.com/rezasp/vbscan && … Read more