Linux

Malware Detection with Maldet Linux Malware Detection comes in the form of maldet from R-fx Networks. The author Ryan MacDonald, a security engineer, created maldet to overcome limitations in malware detection especially in shared hosting…

Auditing User Keystrokes The Linux Audit system can be taken further by auditing user keystrokes. This would be unusual against many user accounts but great where you want to target one or two individuals with…

Using CentOS 7 chkrootkit The standard repositories for CentOS do not include a package for chkrootkit as they do for Ubuntu. However, this is not really an issue as the installation from source is not…

Using chkrootkit on Ubuntu 18.04 Rootkit detectors, of course, are not limited to just one, we have more than just rkhunter. In many respects, defence in depth is a good approach and using more than…

Installing rkhunter on CentOS 7 I think that rkhunter is a valuable tool no matter the distribution that is used. Having first seen this with Ubuntu 18.04, we will now look at it and a…

We now turn our attention to specific rootkit detection tools and rkhunter. This package is part of our standard Ubuntu repositories and is easy to install: $ sudo apt install -y rkhunter With the installation…