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11. Security Sources

There are a LOT of good sites out there for Unix security in general and Linux security specifically. It's very important to subscribe to one (or more) of the security mailing lists and keep current on security fixes. Most of these lists are very low volume, and very informative.

11.1 LinuxSecurity.com References

The LinuxSecurity.com web site has numerous Linux and open source security references written by the LinuxSecurity staff and people collectively around the world.

11.2 FTP Sites

CERT is the Computer Emergency Response Team. They often send out alerts of current attacks and fixes. See ftp://ftp.cert.org for more information.

ZEDZ (formerly Replay) ( http://www.zedz.net) has archives of many security programs. Since they are outside the US, they don't need to obey US crypto restrictions.

Matt Blaze is the author of CFS and a great security advocate. Matt's archive is available at ftp://ftp.research.att.com/pub/mab

tue.nl is a great security FTP site in the Netherlands. ftp.win.tue.nl

11.3 Web Sites

11.4 Mailing Lists

Bugtraq: To subscribe to bugtraq, send mail to listserv@netspace.org containing the message body subscribe bugtraq. (see links above for archives).

CIAC: Send e-mail to majordomo@tholia.llnl.gov. In the BODY (not subject) of the message put (either or both):

subscribe ciac-bulletin

Red Hat has a number of mailing lists, the most important of which is the redhat-announce list. You can read about security (and other) fixes as soon as they come out. Send email to redhat-announce-list-request@redhat.com with the Subject

Subscribe
See https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ for more info and archives.

The Debian project has a security mailing list that covers their security fixes. See http://www.debian.com/security/ for more information.

11.5 Books - Printed Reading Material

There are a number of good security books out there. This section lists a few of them. In addition to the security specific books, security is covered in a number of other books on system administration.


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