Network Security Library

Network Security Library / Unix Security

Ubuntu - A new Linux based on the rock that Debian built!: Date - Jul 27, 2005; Author - Jeff McDermott; With many distributions of Linux out there, which one is the right one for you. This article helps shed some light on a fairly new flavor of Linux, and why it might be the right one for you. Ubuntu is yet another distro of Linux based on Debian, and out to make Linux a practical tool for the average person, and yet powerful for the advanced user.
Amateur Fortress Building in Linux: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Sander Plomp; Almost guide through Linux specific configuration tips.
Hardening Solaris - Securely installing a firewall bastion host: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Seán Boran; Securely installing a firewall bastion host. This article is specific to Solaris 2.7.
Securing BIND 8.X: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Rob Thomas; This article presents a template for deploying a secure BIND configuration.
UNIX IP Stack Tuning Guide v2.7: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Rob Thomas; Information about almost all UNIX clones - how to protect the UNIX IP stack against a variety of attack types.
Protecting Sun systems: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Jeffrey Boulier; For the latest versions of Solaris (except 8th).
Securing Solaris: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Ido Dubrawsky; Not so good as Solaris Security FAQ, but this article has some interesting things.
The Solaris Security FAQ: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Peter Baer Galvin; Answer almost all your Solaris Security questions here.
The Secrets of Snoop: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Lance Spitzner; A passive approach to your network security.
Know Your Enemy: A Forensic Analysis: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Lance Spitzner; The Study of an Attack.
Watching Your Logs: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Lance Spitzner; How to plan and implement an automated filter for your logs utilizing swatch.
Armoring Linux: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Lance Spitzner; This article presents a systematic method to prepare your system for the Internet.
Know Your Enemy: III: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Lance Spitzner; What happens after the script kiddie gains root, how they cover their tracks while they monitor your system.
Know Your Enemy: II: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Lance Spitzner; How to determine what the enemy is doing by analyzing your system log files.
Know Your Enemy:: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Lance Spitzner; The tools and methodology of the most common black-hat threat on the Internet.
Armoring Solaris: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Lance Spitzner; This article presents a systematic method to prepare for a firewall installation.
Building a Bastion Host Using HP-UX 11: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Kevin Steves; Very good paper. Almost FAQ.
Incident Handling Step by Step: Unix Trojan Programs: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; SANS guide.
HP Unix Security Handbook: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Good and not very old paper.
How to bypass Solaris non-executable stack protection: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Ops. I thought non-exec is a coolest protection. Actually, it is not :(
Basic SUN Security: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Short paper, mostly about applying patches.
Securing Your Linux Box: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Peter Vertes; Don't you know it? You have to secure your Linux! ;-))).
Adding Security to Common Linux Distributions: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Michael Jastremski; Nice and short guide.
Securing Linux, Part 2: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Michael H. Warfield; Advanced Linux security
Securing Linux, Part 1: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Michael H. Warfield; Elementary security for your Linux box
SGI security Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Latest! But VERY old - 1997
FreeBSD Security How-To: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Jan Koum; Nice and alone description about BSD security
Playing with the Internet Daemons: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Description of most know daemons and their ports
Setting up sendmail on a firewall: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Security techniques part
Security holes manifest themselves in (broadly) four ways...: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; All about insecurities - were and how to check
Placing Backdoors into a UNIX computer: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; One more guide about backdoors
Placing Backdoors Through Firewalls: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - van Hauser; How to set it and how to protect from it.
Anonymizing UNIX Systems: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - van Hauser; I do not know if you will use all those advices but some of them are helpful
Unix System Security Issues: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Michael J. Knox and Edward D. Bowden; Phrack article
Linux Security Administrator's Guide: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Dave Wreski; FAQs, links, recommendations. If you deal with Linux, look at this paper!
A Beginners Introduction To Hacking Around On The UNIX Operating System, Part II: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Yeah! Right. For beginners.
An Introduction To Hacking Around With The UNIX Operating System: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Some methods.
An Indepth Guide in Hacking UNIX and the concept of Basic Networking Utility: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Robert L. Ziegler; How to collect information about UNIX.
How to cover your tracks - Practice: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - van Hauser; 2'nd part of the previous doc.
How to cover your tracks - Theory and Background: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - van Hauser; The basics you should know and the advanced techniques
Hacking Kit: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; The paper about most known insecurities + examples + sources
Learn how to make your site more sec: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; System administrators can use this document to prevent several types of break-ins.
NFS Tracing By Passive Network Monitoring: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Non-intrusively monitoring the Ethernet traffic.
All you want to know about UNIX passwords: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Description of /etc/passwd in different systems. .
Getting A Handle On Internet Security: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Deborah Russell and Elizabeth D. Zwicky; Some suggestions for securing your Internet-connected machines
UNIX: A Hacking Tutorial: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; The first half of this text is a UNIX guide and the second part - hacking tutorial
Advanced Networking Security: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Ajay Kumar Gummmadi; The report about competition between hackers and admins
UNIX Computer Security Checklist: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Common and known security vulnerabilities under the UNIX (ACERT)
Intruder Detection Checklist: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Steps for determining if your system has been compromised (CERT)
Securing Internet Information Servers: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; The same as before but from another security organization (CIAC)
UNIX Configuration Guidelines: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Common UNIX system security configuration problems (CERT)
Backdoors: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; The good guide to hackers and admins
Problems With The FTP PORT Command: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Why You Don't Want Just Any PORT in a Storm
An Architectural Overview of UNIX Network Security: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Robert B. Reinhardt; Some points about org. policy
How to hold onto root once you have it: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Intended for hackers and administrators alike
Securing NIS (formerly YP): Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; About Network Information Service (formerly YP)
Securing X Windows: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - John Fisher; CIAC reccomenations
Improving X-Windows security: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Ben Gross & Baba Buehler; Some suggestions
A Guide to Internet Security: Becoming an Uebercracker and Becoming an UeberAdmin to stop Uebercrackers: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Christopher Klaus; Some suggestions
Protection of TCP/IP Based Network Elements: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Dale Drew; Just some interesting things about it
Scanning for RPC Services: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; UDP-scan and remote programs resolve
LOKI2 - information-tunneling program and description: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; How to send your data more securely
File Descriptor Hija: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; It will help after root access :)
This FAQ deals with some suggestions for securing your Unix machine after it has already been compromised.: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Even if your machines have not been compromised, there are many helpful tips on securing a machine in this paper.
Description of hijacking: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; SYN/ACK attack
How to Set up a Secure Anonymous FTP Site: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Christopher Klaus; If you really need to setup it - look at this document
Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into it: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - Dan Farmer; Practical advices
Improving the security of your UNIX system: Date - Oct 16, 2002; Author - The Editor; Old information, but still actual.
Murphy's law and computer security: Date - Apr 15, 2002; Author - Wietse Venema
Secure Control of Transit Internetwork Traffic: Date - Apr 15, 2000; Author - Deborah Estrin and Gene Tsudik
The `Session Tty' Manager: Date - Apr 15, 2000; Author - Steven M. Bellovin
UNIX Security: Date - Apr 15, 2000; Author - Rajib K. Mitra
UTnet Guide to UNIX System Security: Date - Apr 15, 2000; Author - Charles Spurgeon
A Cryptographic File System for Unix: Date - Apr 04, 2000; Author - Matt Blaze
Playing redir games with ARP and ICMP: Date - Feb 23, 2000; Author - Yuri Volobuev
An Approach to UNIX Security Logging: Date - Feb 21, 2000; Author - Stefan Axelsson
Life Without Root: Date - Feb 20, 2000; Author - Steve Simmons

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[	26	]	Anti Spam	[	12	]	Anti Virus	[	44	]	Auditing
[	60	]	Auth. & Access Control	[	3	]	Content Management	[	103	]	Cryptography
[	12	]	Disaster Recovery	[	36	]	Firewalls & VPN's	[	6	]	Forensics
[	41	]	Harmless hacking book	[	1	]	Honeypots	[	14	]	Information Warfare
[	26	]	Intrusion Detection	[	7	]	Law	[	3	]	Managed Security Solutions
[	50	]	Misc	[	24	]	Mobile Code	[	32	]	NCSC&DoD Rainbow series
[	13	]	NetWare	[	31	]	Network Security	[	4	]	Patch Management
[	3	]	Phishing	[	38	]	Policy & Standards	[	25	]	Privacy
[	21	]	Software Engineering	[	2	]	Trojans	[	2	]	Underground
[	82	]	Unix Security	[	19	]	Web Security	[	39	]	Windows Security
[	6	]	Wireless Security