Some Security Related Links

• Security-HOWTO, from the extensive Linux How-To's
• Linux Secutiry Homepage
• Linux Security
• The Linux Weekly News has a regular column about security updates and other issues.
• Three Point regularly posts security issues.
• SuSe's Security Announcements and SuSe's Security mailing list
• Quick-and-Dirty Red Hat Security Checklist
• Linux Administrators Security Guide (LASG) , by Kurt Seifried.
• Secure UNIX Programming FAQ
• Recent LinuxGazette article by Pollman and Mote. With lot of references.
• Peter W's stuff
• Bastille hardening scripts.
• Ipchains and Firewalls info
• Trinity OS document
• Some UM stuff:
  • HTTP SSL Certificate Authority and Personal Certificates for UMD.EDU
  • How to site-restrict access to web pages
  • Redhat 5.1 list of security related updates:
  • Debian security updates (in particular, check their mailing list archives
  • rpmcheck, a script that may be useful to check your system integrity every now and then. Crontab and email to a secure outside location?
  • Hints to improve Security on your machine

Security Toolkit

• COPS
• courtney
• crack
• gabriel
• lsof
• S/Key
• SATAN
• Secure Shell (SSH) (don't use V2 with the UMD network)
• TCP Wrappers
• tiger
• tripwire

Black Hat info

• Alt2600
• Chaos Computer Club
• DEF CON
• Hack FAQ
• LOpht Heavy Industries
• Phrack Magazine
• Rootshell

White Hat Info

• Bugtraq
• CERIAS/COAST
• Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT): CERT Advisory CA-2001-20 Continuing Threats to Home, and network security.
• Hacker Emergency Response Team (HERT)
• President's Commision on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP)
• RFC 2196: Site Security Handbook
• SANS Institute
• Security World Wide Web Site
• U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC)

Mailing lists

• BugTraq:
  send mail to listserv@netspace.org containing the message body "subscribe bugtraq"
• SecureDistros (their mailing list archive)
• RedHat watch list:
  mail redhat-watch-list-request@redhat.com with "subscribe" as the Subject.
• Red Hat
• Debian
• SuSE
• Mandrake
• Slackware
• Caldera
• TurboLinux