If you are in an environment that disallows the use of SSH and forces the use of an HTTP proxy, it is possible to use that HTTP proxy as a transport for SSH. Vincent Danen explains how to use the ...

SOCKS is built in to OpenSSH, so it's a trivial matter to set up a local SOCKS proxy with the -D flag. For example: $ ssh -D 12345 myuser@remote_ssh_server will open up the port 12345 on your local ...

However, restrictions in HTTP, such as same origin policy, make it difficult to perform such authentications. In this paper, a system to perform “Publickey” authentication over HTTP is provided. It is ...

"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it is the light of the oncoming train" ~ Robert Lowell. Oh yes, another good quote. This post is on SSH tunneling, or as I like to call it 'Poor Man's VPN'.

In this blog post, we provide an in-depth analysis of Linux/Ebury - the most sophisticated Linux backdoor ever seen by our researchers. It is built to steal OpenSSH credentials and maintain access to ...

Can a (Cisco, typical?) Layer 7 filter tell the difference between SSL-encrypted HTTP traffic on port 443 and SSL-encrypted SSH on port 443? I know the port doesn't make a difference, just wondering ...