[olug] Reccomended security checks

Dave Thacker dthacker9 at cox.net
Fri Jun 3 02:25:35 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 01 June 2005 22:54, Dave Hull wrote:
> Quoting Brandon Lederer <brandon at tolkien-movies.com>:
> > Recently recovering from being hacked...... I want to secure things
> > down a bit
> > more.  What things to you all do and/or reccomend to be checked and done
> > on a fresh install of whatever distro is your flavor of choice in order
> > to secure it?

IBM Developerworks walkthrough for hardening a new install:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-seclnx3/

Linux Security Site Linux-Sec.net
http://www.linux-sec.net/Harden/harden.gwif.html

Enjoy.

DT






More information about the OLUG mailing list