<p>A Brute Force Attack is one of the oldest cyber attacks. It was even featured in the 1980's thriller, War Games. In this episode, Mike Shinn walks through how a Brute Force Attack works, reviews some different flavors of attacks and how to defend against them. </p>

File Integrity Monitoring history, features, limitations and recent advances - Linux Security Podcast Ep. 2

The Linux Security Podcast covers key concepts in security, reviews some of the latest exploits and discusses the tools enterprises use to detect, prevent and recover from cyber attacks. The show features insights from Mike Shinn, co-founder and CEO of Atomicorp, and Scott Shinn, co-founder and CTO of Atomicorp as well as PM for OSSEC. Scott was also chief network manager at the White House and interim CISO at the Department of the Interior earlier in his career. Mike contributed to the first intrusion detection device and was the first computer security analyst for the White House. He is also the author of the federal regulation for Cybersecurity Programs for Nuclear Facilities. The Shinn brothers have been working with Linux since before 1.0, been in computer security for 25 years and are the co-authors of Troubleshooting Linux Firewalls.