Hardening Linux 204
davidmwilliams writes "Out of the box, many Linux systems are insecure with open ports and unpatched vulnerabilities. Read about the essential steps to
secure your server as well as how to solve them manually and via automated tools like Bastille."
FP (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not sure what this is doing on /. (Score:1, Funny)
In Soviet Russia (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How To in summary... (Score:5, Funny)
The summary is ... strange.
"... many Linux systems are insecure with open ports" ... "...how to secure your server ..."
Remember all those internet ads about "YOUR COMPUTER HAS OPEN PORTS !!!"
Its a computer connected to "Teh Intarweb" - its supposed to have open ports.
Next we'll read another story about how some "1337 hacker hacked into another person's machine" at IP address 127.0.0.1, erased all their files, and somehow, the "other person" was able to hack their machine and do the same thing ...
Followed by a nostalgiac look at "Punch-the-monkey" ads.
Re:I'm not sure what this is doing on /. (Score:1, Funny)
Apparently not!
I say this, because I have challenged the *NIX crew here, 26 times now to be exact, here in these url's, to try the multiplatform benchmark of online security (by the CENTER FOR INTERNET SECURITY, noted by SANS + COMPUTERWORLD, no less, as legit/good etc.):
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=240571&cid= 19630923 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=240283&cid=196 31141 [slashdot.org]
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=240501&c id=19630965 [slashdot.org]
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=241957&cid= 19662703 [slashdot.org]
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=241913&cid= 19662485 [slashdot.org]
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=238993&cid =19578849 [slashdot.org]
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=243071&cid= 19690705 [slashdot.org]
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=243071&cid= 19691091 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=240283&cid=196 22485 [slashdot.org]
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=245695&cid= 19761821 [slashdot.org]
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=246115&cid= 19774211 [slashdot.org]
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=246583&c id=19779437 [slashdot.org]
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=252367&c id=19946243 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=254685&cid=199 83339 [slashdot.org]
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=255743&cid =19996191 [slashdot.org]
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=255743&thr eshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=19997047 [slashdot.org]
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=260975&thre shold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=20109099#20 114035 [slashdot.org]
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=260975&cid= 20109707 [slashdot.org]
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=261525&t hreshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=20138729 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=264303 [slashdot.org]
Since the submitter is also the author... (Score:4, Funny)
Here's how I'm picturing it:
(editor) Mr. Williams, we need a techie article on Linux.
(mr. williams) Okay... I haven't touched linux since I played around with my RedHat 7.2 box 3 years ago.
(editor) Do you still have it?
(mr. williams) Yes, what would you like me to write about it?
(editor) Write something up on securing its "holes and vulnerabilities", and we'll sensationalize it a bit by making it look like Linux is insecure out of the box.
(mr. williams) I don't know how to do that.
(editor) Find something on google. Try it on your RedHat machine.
(mr. williams) I'm going to look really stupid.
(editor) You're a journalist.
Re:Hardened? Hardly. (Score:1, Funny)
Pregnancy, in most cases. But in your case, it's probably just a gutteral moan as Inmate 266497 mounts you from behind.
Re:FP (Score:1, Funny)
I'm sick of Linux users being left out. I demand that companies like Sony & Microsoft release bad software for Linux too.
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
Hardening Linux (Score:5, Funny)