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Introduction

The purpose of this page is to give an index of the tips, tools and techniques detailed in a series of five tutorials.

 

“INFORMATION SECURITY 1 : INTRUSTION PROTECTION”

1(A) Shields UP!! Test

1(B) Nmap tool to check on open ports

1(C) GUFW – Firewall GUI (Graphical User Interface)

1(D) Securer Password, Login and BIOS settings

 

“INFORMATION SECURITY 2 : INTRUSTION DETECTION”

2(A) Root Kit Hunter (RKHunter)

2 (B) CLAM AV Anti Virus and CLAM Tk (GUI)

2 (C) Vulnerability Audit using Tiger and Lynis

2 (D) Gnome System Log Viewer

 

“INFORMATION SECURITY 3 : SSL SEARCH & FIREFOX PRIVACY SETTINGS”

3(A) Secure Socket Layer SSL Internet Search

(Ixquick, DuckDuckGo, SSL Search Bar, Calomel SSL Validation )

3(B) Firefox Preference Settings

3(C) Fifefox Privacy Add-ons

(Empty Cache Button, BetterPrivacy, RefControl)

3(D) No Script – Firefox Security Add On

 

“INFORMATION SECURITY 4 : BLEACHBIT FILE CLEANER AND SHRED/REMOVE A FILE”

4(A) BleachBit File Cleaner

4(B) Securely Remove File - SHRED Terminal Command

4(C) Securely Remove Folder – SECURE-DELETE package.

 

“INFORMATION SECURITY 5: ENCRYPT A FILE AND “CRYPTKEEPER” FOLDER

5(A) Password protect a LibreOffice File

5(B) Encrypt a File – Seahorse and KGpg with Nemo

5(C) Encrypt a Folder – Using Cryptkeeper / EncFS

 

System : Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca x86 / 64 bit Cinnamon 2.4 Kernel 3.13.0 -24. Thunderbird 31.3.0 and Firefox 34.0 running on a computer with an Intel i3-4030U CPU @ 1.90GHz processor, and Haswell Graphics Card. 4 GB RAM. 500 GB HDD. Linux Mint installed with a / (root) /home and swap configuration. Laptop used as a single (not dual boot) system.

 

Call Out: The author is a non technical home PC user new to Linux who submitted these articles to contribute to the Linux Mint community. In each tutorial, DuckDuckGo (DDG) search words are provided to point to a web site for supporting detail on each specific tool to first evaluate its applicability for your needs and system configuration.

I hope you find the tutorials useful.

Comments Feedback below welcomed.

Thank You,

ConorCork, December, 2014