LASG - Appendices

Appendices

Appendix C: Other Linux security documentation

Appendix D: Online security documentation

Appendix A: Books and magazines

Red Hat/SAMS also publish several interesting books:
Maximum RPM (available as a postscript document on https://www.rpm.org/)
Red Hat User's Guide (available as HTML on ftp://ftp.redhat.com/)

SNMP, SNMPv2 and RMON - W. Stallings (ISBN: 0-201-63479-1)

Magazines:
Linux Journal (of course, monthly)
Sys Admin (intelligent articles, monthly)
Perl Journal (quarterly)
Information Security - https://www.infosecuritymag.com/

Appendix C: Other Linux security documentation

Firewalling and Proxy Server HOWTO
https://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html

Linux IPCHAINS HOWTO
https://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html

Linux NETFILTER HOWTO
https://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/

Linux Security HOWTO
https://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO.html

Linux Shadow Password HOWTO
https://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Shadow-Password-HOWTO.html

The Linux CIPE + Masquerading mini-HOWTO
https://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Cipe+Masq.html

Firewall Piercing mini-HOWTO
https://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Firewall-Piercing.html

Quota mini-HOWTO
https://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html

Secure POP via SSH mini-HOWTO
https://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html

The VPN HOWTO (using SSH)
https://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/VPN.html

Red Hat Knowledge Base
https://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?faq

Appendix D: Online security documentation

Bugtraq Archives
https://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/

CERT Incident Reporting Guidelines
https://www.cert.org/tech_tips/incident_reporting.html

SECURITY RISK ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
https://www.norman.com/local/whitepaper.htm

An Introduction to Information Security
https://www.certicom.com/ecc/wecc1.htm

Site Security Handbook
https://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/doc/standard/rfc/21xx/2196

Guidelines for the Secure Operation of the Internet
https://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/doc/standard/rfc/12xx/1281

How to Handle and Identify Network Probes
https://www.network-defense.com/papers/probes.html

Free Firewall and related tools (large)
https://sites.inka.de/sites/lina/freefire-l/index_en.html

Internet FAQ Consortium (You want FAQ’s? We got FAQ’s!)
https://www.faqs.org/

An Architectural Overview of UNIX Network Security
https://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/Docs/network-security.html

The human side of computer security (an article on social engineering)
https://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-07-1999/swol-07-security.html

IBM Redbooks
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

AES Algorithm Efficiency
https://www.seven77.demon.co.uk/cryptography_technology/Aes/index.htm

General security research and development
https://www.sekure.net/

Some general whitepapers and articles
https://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/pubs.html

COAST Library
https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/coast/coast-library.html

Coast hotlist (hugelist of resources)
https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/coast/hotlist/

D.O.E. Sysworks
https://members.aol.com/jpeschel/index.htm

Appendix E: General security sites

SecurityPortal, has a Linux section, this document and my weekly column (it's a great site!).
https://www.securityportal.com/

Open Security Solutions
https://www.opensec.net/

SANS
https://www.sans.org/

Security Mailing Lists
https://www.iss.net/vd/mail.html

Computer Security Information
https://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/security.html

8 Little Green Men
https://www.8lgm.org/

Robert's Cryptography, PGP & Privacy Links
https://www.interlog.com/~rguerra/www/

Open Security Solutions
https://www.opensec.net/

Cryptome
https://cryptome.org

PacketStorm
https://packetstorm.securify.com/

COAST
ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/

.rain.forest.puppy
https://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/

InfoWar
https://www.infowar.com/

Appendix F: General Linux sites

Linux.com
https://www.linux.com/

Linux.org
https://www.linux.org/

Linux Administration Made Easy (LAME)
https://www.LinuxNinja.com/linux-admin/

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