Disclaimer : This blog is strictly for educational and authorized security testing  only. Always take written permission before testing any application. Unauthorized testing is illegal. Introduction SQL Injection is still one of the most common and dangerous web vulnerabilities. Even today, many internal tools, admin panels, and legacy applications are exposed due to weak input validation. sqlmap  is an open-source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detect

System integrity is one of the most overlooked areas in Linux security. Firewalls, SELinux, and antivirus tools are common, but they do not tell you if critical system files were modified silently . This is where AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment)  fits perfectly. In this blog, I’ll walk through what AIDE is, how it works, how to configure it properly , and how to interpret its output  on RHEL, Rocky Linux, and CentOS . All commands shown below were executed manu