Appendix A: Books and magazines
Appendix C: Other Linux security documentation
Appendix D: Online security documentation
Appendix E: General security sites
Appendix F: General Linux sites
Appendix A: Books and magazines
Sendmail - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmail2/
Linux Network Admin Guide (NAG) - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag/
Running Linux - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux2/noframes.html
DNS & BIND - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns3/
Apache - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apache2/
Learning The Bash Shell - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bash2/
Building Internet Firewalls - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/fire/
Computer Crime - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/crime/
Computer Security Basics - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csb/
Cracking DES - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/crackdes/
Essential System Administration - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa2/
Linux in a nutshell - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxnut2/
Managing NFS and NIS - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/nfs/
Managing Usenet - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/musenet/
PGP - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pgp/
Practical Unix and Internet Security - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/puis/
Running Linux - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux2/
Using and Managing PPP - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/umppp/
Virtual Private Networks - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vpn2/
Red Hat/SAMS also publish several interesting books:
Maximum RPM (available as a postscript document on http://www.rpm.org/)
Red Hat User's Guide (available as HTML on ftp://ftp.redhat.com/)
SNMP, SNMPv2 and RMON - W. Stallings (ISBN: 0-201-63479-1)
Magazines:
Linux Journal (of course, monthly)
Sys Admin (intelligent articles, monthly)
Perl Journal (quarterly)
Information Security - http://www.infosecuritymag.com/
Appendix C: Other Linux security documentation
Firewalling and Proxy Server HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html
Linux IPCHAINS HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html
Linux NETFILTER HOWTO
http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/
Linux Security HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO.html
Linux Shadow Password HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Shadow-Password-HOWTO.html
The Linux CIPE + Masquerading mini-HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Cipe+Masq.html
Firewall Piercing mini-HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Firewall-Piercing.html
Quota mini-HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html
Secure POP via SSH mini-HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html
The VPN HOWTO (using SSH)
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/VPN.html
Red Hat Knowledge Base
http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?faq
Appendix D: Online security documentation
Bugtraq Archives
http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/
CERT Incident Reporting Guidelines
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/incident_reporting.html
SECURITY RISK ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
http://www.norman.com/local/whitepaper.htm
An Introduction to Information Security
http://www.certicom.com/ecc/wecc1.htm
Site Security Handbook
http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/doc/standard/rfc/21xx/2196
Guidelines for the Secure Operation of the Internet
http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/doc/standard/rfc/12xx/1281
How to Handle and Identify Network Probes
http://www.network-defense.com/papers/probes.html
IANA Port Numbers
http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/linux/papers/port_numbers
Free Firewall and related tools (large)
http://sites.inka.de/sites/lina/freefire-l/index_en.html
Internet FAQ Consortium (You want FAQ’s? We got FAQ’s!)
http://www.faqs.org/
An Architectural Overview of UNIX Network Security
http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/Docs/network-security.html
The human side of computer security (an article on social engineering)
http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-07-1999/swol-07-security.html
IBM Redbooks
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
AES Algorithm Efficiency
http://www.seven77.demon.co.uk/cryptography_technology/Aes/index.htm
Appendix E: General security sites
SecurityPortal, has a Linux section, this document and my weekly column (it's a great site!).
http://www.securityportal.com/
Open Security Solutions
http://www.opensec.net/
Security Mailing Lists
http://www.iss.net/vd/mail.html
Computer Security Information
http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/security.html
8 Little Green Men
http://www.8lgm.org/
Robert's Cryptography, PGP & Privacy Links
http://www.interlog.com/~rguerra/www/
Open Security Solutions
http://www.opensec.net/
Cryptome
http://cryptome.com/
PacketStorm
http://packetstorm.securify.com/
COAST
ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/
Appendix F: General Linux sites
Linux.com
http://www.linux.com/
Linux.org
http://www.linux.org/
Linux Administration Made Easy
http://www.ojichan.com/linux-admin/