Linux Journal Contents #205, May 2011

Features

• Live-Fire Security Testing with Armitage and Metasploit  by Raphael Mudge
  Defend your network by attacking it. Armitage and Metasploit give you the same techniques skilled attackers use, in an easy-to-use package.
  
• Virtual Security: Combating Actual Threats  by Jeramiah Bowling
  Just because you've removed the physical, doesn't mean you've removed the risk.
  
• Build a Better Firewall—Linux HA Firewall Tutorial  by Mike Horn
  Use a combination of open-source packages to build and manage a Linux-based HA firewall pair that includes support for many of the advanced features commonly found in commercial firewalls.
  
• Security Monitoring and Enforcement with Cfengine 3  by Aleksey Tsalolikhin
  How can a configuration management tool increase security?
  

Indepth

• Installing an Alternate SSL Provider on Android  by Chris Conlon
  A step-by-step tutorial on installing a third-party C library on Android.
  

Columns

• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Node.JS  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Mad Libs Generator, Tweaks and Hacks  
  
• Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   DNS Cache Poisoning, Part I  
  
• Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Your Own Personal Server: Blog  
  
• Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers' Tales from the Server Room   Panic on the Streets of London  
  
• Doc Searls' EOF   The Limits of Scale  
  

Reviews

• Untangle's Multi-Functional Firewall Software  by Shawn Powers
  
• The Google Cr-48 Mario Chrome OS Notebook  by Daniel Bartholomew
  

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