Re: [seul-edu] Re: HELP!

[Robert Hopcroft <hopcroft@uswest.net>]

I expanded and reposted this.

Dave Prentice wrote:

>     Besides setting up a firewall (which I'm still trying to figure
out), I
> obviously need to do something else. Short of reinstalling Linux from
> scratch, I don't know what to do.
>

The October Linux Journal has some articles on security.

After reading a number on books on firewalls, I came across the
following wich I would recommend.

Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls
Wes Sonnenreich
Tom Yates
Wiley ISBN 0-471-35366-3

There is some information at their web site
http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/sonnenreich

This book is reviewed in the October Linux Journal page 182.

For a book on stopping breakins try

Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions
Stuart McClure
Joel Scambrayhttp://209.143.242.119/cgi-bin/cbmc/forums.cgi?faq=defined
George Kurtz
Osborne/McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-212127-0

Some web sites.
http://209.143.242.119/cgi-bin/cbmc/forums.cgi?faq=defined contains
newbie FAQ .
http://www.securityfocus.com click on 'Linux' for securing Linux
information.

Bob