Additional practices

There are several miscellaneous steps that can be taken to further the security of your system.

How to do it...

Let us take a look at some of the ways to enhance the security of our system in the following sections.

Server IP address

You can specify the IP address to be used by your Notebook rather than using the default. Many hacking scenarios count on you using default values, such as the port, to quickly acquire targets.

The IP address used by the Notebook can be changed with this configuration command:

c.NotebookApp.port = 9732 

Note that once...