Improved Server Security By Closing Ports With nmap Monitoring
A cardinal rule of security is to avoid running services you don't need. A logical extension of that rule is to not expose ports to the public Internet unnecessarily. You may have a very good reason to run MySQL, however you may not need to expose MySQL to the public Internet. If you have a package that requires Samba as a dependency, you want to make sure Samba is not up and running on your public IP. On many VPSes, n...
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