File Transfer Protocol client applications let you to transfer files back and forth between your computer and another computer running an FTP server application. The ...

What is SFTP? How does it differ from FTP? FTP (File Transport Protocol) was first invented in 1971 and was originally used to transfer files over NCP (Network Control Protocol), later versions were ...

If you need to share or transfer files between Linux machines, you have plenty of options. Here are some you might not have considered.

Lock down all SFTP users on your data center Linux servers with a chroot jail. If you have Linux data center servers that require users to be able to send and receive files via SFTP, you might want to ...

FTP is a great way to transfer files to the cloud, and you have some pretty good choices of FTP clients on Linux. However, our favorite is the powerful, cross-platform FilezZilla. FileZilla has just ...

The Cygwin program allows you to run Linux-based binary files on your Windows computer. Through this, you can access a Linux file system, Linux applications and Linux security software related to your ...

Am I missing something with SFTP. We have been preaching for as long as I have been working in the industry that FTP should not be used (which I do not argue) but is SFTP suppose to be an alternative?

A security warning has been issued by the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University advising users of the Washington University FTP daemon (WU-FTPD) for Unix and Linux systems that their ...