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Securely Delete files with Wipe

Recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media is easier than what many people would like to believe. A technique called Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) allows any moderately funded opponent to recover the last two or three layers of data written to disk; wipe repeadetly overwrites special patterns to the files to be destroyed, using [...]

13 Types of Shell (Some You Never Probably Heard About)

sh: The Bourne shell, or sh, was the default Unix shell of Unix Version 7, and replaced the Thompson shell, whose executable file had the same name, sh. It was developed by Stephen Bourne, of AT&T Bell Laboratories, and was released in 1977 in the Version 7 Unix release distributed to colleges and universities. It [...]

Source Code Scanners

Source code scanners can be used to audit security problems in source code. It can detect problems, such as buffer overflows, race conditions, privilege escalation, and tainted input. Buffer overflows enable data to be written over portions of your executable, which can allow a malicious user to do just about anything. Race conditions can prevent [...]

Ephiphany — Gnome Webbrowser

Ephiphany is a simply webbrowser for the Gnome Desktop. It is based on the Gecko engine, the same engine that powers Firefox, so in terms of speed and accuracy it is the same as firefox. Ephiphany ties together several Gnome component which lets you focus on content instead of the browser application, thus making it [...]

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