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J. WestfallSet Up and Manage Your Virtual Private Serverhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6966-4_5

5. Basics of Linux Security

Jon Westfall1  
(1)
Cleveland, MS, USA
 

It isn’t hard to find examples of data security issues in the world today. It seems like every few days we’re hearing about data theft from the businesses that we work with (through mandatory disclosure emails), ransomware attacks in the news, and our own concerns over the privacy of our data on our computers. We hear companies talk about encryption and security policies, and we create passwords that are eight or more characters including uppercase, lowercase, symbols, numbers, and probably soon ...

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