Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome  For those interested, there was also a technical article posted over the weekend: SSH Service: How to set it up in Backtrack without getting pwned Remember, sometimes the funny section has some food for thought 🙂 Highlighted quotes of the week: ‘”You have won …

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SSH provides shell access and as such it is one of the services that must be secured as well as it is possible. Step 0a – Change the default password IMPORTANT!: The first thing to do with Backtrack is to change the default password: To start the SSH service having the default password enabled is …

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