Hack Proofing Linux (eBook)

A Guide to Open Source Security

Patrick T. Lane, James Stanger (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2001 | 1. Auflage
512 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-047811-1 (ISBN)

Infos

From the authors of the bestselling E-Mail Virus Protection Handbook!

The Linux operating system continues to gain market share based largely on its reputation as being the most secure operating system available. The challenge faced by system administrators installing Linux is that it is secure only if installed and configured properly, constantly and meticulously updated, and carefully integrated with a wide variety of Open Source security tools. The fact that Linux source code is readily available to every hacker means that system administrators must continually learn security and anti-hacker techniques.

Hack Proofing Linux will provide system administrators with all of the techniques necessary to properly configure and maintain Linux systems and counter malicious attacks.

* Linux operating systems and Open Source security tools are incredibly powerful, complex, and notoriously under-documented - this book addresses a real need
* CD-Rom contains Red Hat/Mandrake Linux RPMs as well as tarballs for other Linux distributions and the BSD community
* Uses forensics-based analysis to give the reader an insight to the mind of a hacker

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From the authors of the bestselling E-Mail Virus Protection Handbook! The Linux operating system continues to gain market share based largely on its reputation as being the most secure operating system available. The challenge faced by system administrators installing Linux is that it is secure only if installed and configured properly, constantly and meticulously updated, and carefully integrated with a wide variety of Open Source security tools. The fact that Linux source code is readily available to every hacker means that system administrators must continually learn security and anti-hacker techniques. Hack Proofing Linux will provide system administrators with all of the techniques necessary to properly configure and maintain Linux systems and counter malicious attacks. - Linux operating systems and Open Source security tools are incredibly powerful, complex, and notoriously under-documented - this book addresses a real need- Uses forensics-based analysis to give the reader an insight to the mind of a hacker

Inhalt

Cover 1
Table of Contents 12
Preface 28
Chapter 1 Introduction to Open Source Security 32
Chapter 2 Hardening the Operating System 72
Chapter 3 System Scanning and Probing 140
Chapter 4 Implementing an Intrusion Detection System 222
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting the Network with Sniffers 292
Chapter 6 Network Authentication and Encryption 330
Chapter 7 Avoiding Sniffing Attacks through Encryption 384
Chapter 8 Creating Virtual Private Networks 422
Chapter 9 Implementing a Firewall with Ipchains and Iptables 476
Chapter 10 Deploying the Squid Web Proxy Cache Server 538
Chapter 11 Maintaining Firewalls 574
Appendix A Bastille Log 630
Appendix B Hack Proofing Linux Fast Track 636
Index 668
Related Titles 705

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2001
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server ► Unix / Linux
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Kryptologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• ISBN-10: 0-08-047811-5 / 0080478115
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-047811-1 / 9780080478111