How to – Debian Static IP Configuration

On a basic Debian machine without a graphical interface assigning the same IP address all the times can be achieved in two ways. Static IP Address To configure a static IP, (an IP that will never change), and not use DHCP you must edit the file /etc/networking/interfaces. Insert the following code at the end of … Read more

Email address Spoofing – Someone is Using My address to Send Spam

You just got a bounce-back email saying that your email didn’t reach the destination because the recipient doesn’t exist. Nothing unusual, this is something that happens to anybody who is using email regularly; except you didn’t send that email. How could this happen? If you are an email server administrator and many of your users get this kind of bounce-back they all start to complain at once, thinking that your server has been hijacked. What can you do to stop this, and how to reassure your users that you haven’t been hijacked?

Browser Auto-config and Wpad deployment

Using a Proxy Server in your Company’s Network is one of the best decisions you have made. But this decision can bring you some administration overhead if you don’t have an automatic way to provision the browser settings. Fortunately, for Microsoft Operating Systems there is a way to accomplish this. The procedure involves a configuration … Read more