Hack Proofing Linux : A Guide to Open Source Security eBook Download

From the authors of the bestselling E-Mail Virus Protection Handbook!

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.

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 need
* CD-Rom contains Red Hat/Mandrake Linux RPMs as well as tarballs for other Linux distributions and the BSD community
* Uses forensics-based analysis to give the reader an insight to the mind of a hacker


Old News
Don't waste your money on this book, unless you want to go back to older versions of Linux...
Many of the links are gone, many of the programs don't work with the newer versions of Linux (post 2004), and buying this book in September 2005 was basically flushing nearly $50 down the toilet...


Worth the reading.
Follow simple step by step procedures to hardening your linux system, i was able to read the meat of this book in a 4 hour airplane flight. Easily install and configure Linux, firewalls, etc.


2 months into Linux and found the perfect book
This book starts off by defining the Open Source Movement and the General Public License. It covered almost everything I needed to know to secure my network at home (I don't use windows anymore), and gave me confidence enough to want to apply for Network Administration somewhere.
CD included, you get tricks for locking down your system, or your whole network even, and the apps to help you do it (the entire book is in HTML on the CD, too!) I recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn linux, or anyone wanting to learn linux security.
I took half a star because it mainly refers to Red Hat Linux over others, and another half because I could see how a college professor might want a much more technical manual over this textbook style guide. Great book!


Hack Proofing Linux: A great guide to Open Source Security
Hack Proofing Linux does the following very accurately:

1. Even though this book doesn't appear to be popular to people in Texas who don't understand that a mount point can be any directory on a Linux system, or who don't realize that Xinetd is a defacto standard, this California professor thinks it does an
excellent job.


An overly ambitious book with some technical inaccuracies
I am a senior engineer for network security operations. If you accept these limitations, HPL still introduces an impressive array of Linux security applications.

The deployment of Linux antivirus solutions is HPL's first example of questionable material. Finding a "VBS.FreeLink" virus on a Microsoft-based CD-ROM, mounted on a Linux system, doesn't qualify as protecting the Linux operating system. That level of detail deserves a separate book, not several pages in a single chapter.

Still, I haven't seen another book which covers so many open source security tools.

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