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Hack proofing linux

Book information

Publisher
Syngress
Year
2001
ISBN
1928994342, 9781928994343
Open Library ID
OL8778500M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12388348 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
705\705
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

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 needCD-Rom contains Red Hat/Mandrake Linux RPMs as well as tarballs for other Linux distributions and the BSD communityUses forensics-based analysis to give the reader an insight to the mind of a hacke

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