Here i am explaining how to integrate SquidGuard and Lightsquid  in a pfsense Squid Server.  Earlier we have published an article about the how to setup a proxy with pfSense Firewall distribution. as we know SquidGuard is a URL redirector used to use blacklists with the Squid. Squid can perform better with SquidGuard. LightSquid is one of reporting package available …

Wikileaks is hosted at White Mountain Datacenter in Stockholm (Sweden), Pionen also houses dozens of servers belonging to other companies. These pictures show the Pionen data centre, 100 ft below ground in a former Cold War nuclear bunker.The datacenter is bomb proof . This is one of the most secure Datacenters in the world as it is housed in a …

Linux maintains a record of a various logs that helps a administrator to keep track of important events including system error messages, system startups, and system shutdowns. The logs are in ASCII text format and hence can be viewed with a text editor. The centralized logging is provided by two daemons are syslogd and klogd. Almost all the logfiles generated …

CTRL+ATL+DELETE will be the most commonly used shortcut key when we work on windows . Watch out that you never use this key (CTRL+ATL+DELETE) on linux server. The default Linux installation treats CTRL+ATL+DELETE command to immediately reboot the Linux system without any warning signals. To avoid this to happen we need to edit  the inittab file /etc/inittab The inittab file …

Pfsense is a FreeBSD based Open source security distribution. Pfsense is basically using as a gateway device (firewall and router). But it can be expandable as many Server services like DNS, DHCP, Proxy Servers. Here I is the step by step procedure to install a Pfsense based Proxy server. Download pfSense CD from here http://www.pfsense.org/mirror.php?section=downloads Write The ISO file to …

When Linux server boots up a large amount of services keeps running in its background . Some services are essential to the operation of your server, while other services are considered non-essential and will cause no problems to your server by disabling them.  Some services takes a lot of time and may affect the working of some of your applications. …