Building a Spam Filter Using Machine Learning
Machine learning is everywhere. From self driving cars to face recognition on Facebook, it is machine learning behind the scenes that drives all of it. If you’ve ever used GMail or Yahoo Mail, you...
Author: Supriyo Biswas
Customizing and coloring the bash prompt
If you’re already not familiar with bash, the prompt is the little blurb of text displayed when it asks for a command. It capable of communicating a lot, but most people don’t use it...
Protecting SSH with Fail2ban
SSH allows you to log in to a remote computer or server and control it through a command-line interface. However, because SSH is exposed to the internet; attackers can try to log in by...
Downloading Torrents over the Web with cloud-torrent
BitTorrent is a peer to peer protocol for sharing files. There are many local clients that allow you to download files via torrents. However, there are times where you may need to download them...
Blocking bad bots with Fail2ban
Fail2ban is a versatile security tool. While it is primarily used for preventing brute-force attacks against SSH, it can also be used for protecting other services. There are bots which go around scanning the...
How to Take Screenshots of Webpages from the Command Line
There are many situations where you might want to take screenshots of a webpage. Sure, there are browser extensions that do the job, but if you have to take screenshots of many web pages...