Overview
CERT - if you want to stay up to date with security risks, read CERT -
http://www.cert.org/
Video, audio and slides from the Black Hat Briefings conferences -
http://www.blackhat.com/
Microsoft Security - If you use MS OS's you should subscribe to the security bulletins -
http://www.microsoft.com/Security/default.asp
CERT Tech Tips -
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/
Nasty website design, but plenty of info -
http://www.securityfocus.com/
UNIX
Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into it -
http://www.fish.com/security/admin-guide-to-cracking.html
Practical UNIX Security (1997) - Good short overview of issues -
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/security/index.html
Unix Security Checklist -
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/external/recommended/checklist.html
CERT UNIX Configuration Guidelines -
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/unix_configuration_guidelines.html
Basic Unix Security (file permissions, Paths, Password File, UUCP)-
http://www.fc.net/phrack/files/p18/p18-7.html
What makes a good password? (includes examples of cracked passwords)
http://www.ja.net/CERT/Belgers/UNIX-password-security.html
http://www.ja.net/CERT/Klein/D.Klein.Foiling.the.Cracker.txt
UNIX Admin Course - Security -
http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/admin/day3d.html
Web Servers
Securing Apache -
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/security_tips.html
Firewalls
Checkout what ports you've left open with the "Shields Up!" which remotely probes your machine -
http://grc.com
Firewall Wizards mailing list -
http://www.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Firewall Forensics - lists ports, their legitimate uses and some possible attacks -
http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html
IANA list of ports -
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
Cultural
Timeline of British Hacking -
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,s2076011,00.html
How to hack 1980's style -
http://www.hackers.com/texts/neos/hackbeg.txt
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Andy Pryke
- 15 Jul 2001
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