linux specific:
(short list to get you started)
Resources:
books:
http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/puis/
links:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/index.html
http://www.securityportal.com/lasg/
http://www.linuxsecurity.c
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:06:24AM +1000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] thought:
>
> All the screws we borrow all over the place seem to surrender to
> the same screwdriver in this house - so far, at least.
>
> Of course this assumes you're willing to use a flatbladed
> scre
Mary Gardiner wrote:
> That's incredible Jenn. There's an implicit implication that you have the
> right screws there, or that you haven't 'borrowed' screws from all the hard
> drives and ethernet cards to build a second machine and that's pretty damn
> unusual, where I live.
All the screws we
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 05:39:57PM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> UNIX, as I first met it, was not based on the idea of "one box, keyboard,
> monitor and mouse, all in front of you". It was multiple users on multiple
> accounts from multiple terminals which were nowhere near the console.
> The termi
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:46:45AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Take one screwdriver.
> Take one computer.
> Discover that your screwdriver is the wrong type.
> Get another screwdriver.
> Discover that it's the wrong type too.
> Look for the right screwdriver.
> Remember that you lent that o
Telsa Gwynne:
> You are indeed evil. This is _exactly_ what happened when we took my
> Vaio apart. Sony use -- wait for it -- non-standard screw sizes. Well,
> "didn't fit our first two sets" sizes. However, the set of useless
> "what are these sizes anyway?" screwdrivers I got at a Linux Expo fr
Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> All these terminals. And 'w' showed you people you'd never met and
> your friends, and they were on tty this and that. But the root user
> (or the operator account, or whatever) was sometimes logged in from
> the console. And the console was special.
>
> (I never really k
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:47:35AM +1000 or thereabouts, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> However, it did remind me that Linux is a system with a large enough
> public user base to be subject to frequent attacks when on a hostile
> network (eg the internet).
>
> Securing Linux is an important part of ru
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:46:45AM +1000 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Oh, I'm soo evil!
>
> > 1) Hardware access exploits (how exactly do you remove a hard drive and gain
> > access to its data, how to encrypt one, how to lock a machine up).
>
> Take one screwdriver.
Mary Gardiner wrote:
> Yes, having admitted to said eviilll knowledge Jenn, I'm afraid you must now
> brain-dump all your knowledge of:
Oh, I'm soo evil!
> 1) Hardware access exploits (how exactly do you remove a hard drive and gain
> access to its data, how to encrypt one, how to
Mary Gardiner wrote:
> Hence it's perfect material for our techtalk FAQ. I don't know whether it
> includes much, but I feel inspired to do more. And since I've had CVS access to
> it for months now and haven't touched it, it is time to do some work.
>
> Anyone got any sample Qs and As for me?
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Linda MacPhee-Cobb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I don't think you'll convince me this is anything but a disaster. I don't
> think turning my linux passwords into the equivalent of Win 95, not even Nt,
> passwords to be anything but bad.
This isn't the case, as we have already expla
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:17:27AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I am sure I am not the only person concerned on this list, or lurking, I
> > think you should share any other things you are aware of as a system
> > admin that allow someone into the system or give root access through
> > w
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:50:54AM -0400, Linda MacPhee-Cobb wrote:
> >There's probably other things which I know of, understand and
> >approve of; but which would upset you. The problem is, I can't
> >think of what they might be. I'm not *intentionally* not telling
> >you .. I just don't know wha
Linda MacPhee-Cobb wrote:
> I am sure I am not the only person concerned on this list, or lurking, I
> think you should share any other things you are aware of as a system
> admin that allow someone into the system or give root access through
> ways other than the normal channels as well as t
Linda MacPhee-Cobb wrote:
> The comment about the janitor was good, and that gets right to the heart
> of it. I do not expect the janitor to know enough or be interested
> enough to dismantle the beast and pull out the hd to read on another
> machine. I do expect something as trivally worke
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