[Nolug] Meething Thursday: network security roundtable

Chris,

I bet you thought I forgot about you ;-)

Anyhow, everyone bring his brain this this week, and we'll have a discussion
on the ideas asked about below.

--Joey

On Thursday 23 August 2007 18:06, Chris Jones wrote:
> One thing I'd love to learn more about in linux, and I'm sure some of you
> can probably shed some light on the subject, is basic white hat hacking and
> network security. Explain all the back doors in linux, how you can close
> them, set up a firewall, monitor them for intrusions, etc... Maybe even
> some general "rules-of-thumb" for system security, such as "never log in as
> root", etc... As linux's popularity grows and it starts to infiltrate more
> mission-critical roles, securing these systems is going to be of utmost
> importance. As we all know, linux has a reputation for being more secure
> than windows, which is really misleading, because a system's security is
> 100% dependant on its administrator, whether it be running *ix or
> windows... that reputation probably comes from the fact that linux has
> always been a hard OS to set up, so the people that do it tend to be
> smarter than the people that set up windows boxes. But, as distributions
> become easier to install and manage, we're going to have more and more
> people opening themselves up to attacks, simply because they did not know
> their OS was running some daemon that they didn't know about, out of the
> box.

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
How many spyware pop-ups did you get on your Windows computer today?

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