Slowloris is a tool used for DoS (Denial of Service) on HTTP servers. Basically, Slowloris opens the maximum number of connections possible, leading the server to “exhaustion”. Some of the webservers affected are: Apache 1.x Apache 2.x dhttpd Below are some of the webservers that are NOT affected by Slowloris: IIS6.0 IIS7.0 lighttpd Squid nginx
Scheduling tasks is a very useful feature, for example in server maintenance and backup, etc. In Linux, this can be done using“crontab“. Using the crontab -operation command will allow you to add, list or remove your scheduled tasks. Example: crontab -e (edits scheduled tasks of the masterdaweb user) crontab -l (displays the scheduled tasks of
The “.rar” extension is a native format of the famous WinRar. Linux offers to install this extension, which is included in its repository. Open the terminal and run the following command: # apt-get install unrar If the installation was successful, you can now extract a “.rar” file. To extract from a “.rar” file, just run
The build-essential package is a list containing various packages required for compiling Debian packages. The absence of some of the packages on this list results in “command not found” when trying to compile something. Using the “root” user, to install build-essential run the following commands: # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade # apt-get install build-essential
