Practical Linux or Unix Security
This PDF covers the following topics related to Linux/UNIX Security : Core security concepts, Maintaining confidentiality, Keeping our data safe from intruders, Integrity, Authentication, Security from the start, inetd vs. iptfw, Firewalling, Controlling your users, Cracklib, etc.
Author(s): Hervey Allen, Network Startup Resource Center
71 Pages
Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO (PDF 168P)
This note covers the following topics: background, history of unix, linux, and open source, security principles, why do programmers write insecure code?, is open source good for security?, types of secure programs, paranoia is a virtue, why did i write this document?, sources of design and implementation guidelines, other sources of security information, document conventions, summary of linux and unix security features, processes, files, system v ipc, sockets and network connections, signals, quotas and limits, dynamically linked libraries, audit, pam, specialized security extensions for unix-like systems, security requirements, common criteria introduction, security environment and objectives,validate all input, command line, environment variables, file descriptors, file names, file contents, web-based application inputs (especially cgi scripts), other inputs, human language (locale) selection, character encoding, prevent cross-site malicious content on input, filter html/uris that may be re-presented, remove or forbid some html data, encoding html data, validating html data, validating hypertext links (uris/urls), other html tags, related issues, forbid http get to perform non-queries, counter spam, limit valid input time and load level, avoid buffer overflow, dangers in c/c++, library solutions in c/c++, standard c library solution, static and dynamically allocated buffers, strlcpy and strlcat, libmib, c++ std
Author(s): David A. Wheeler
168 Pages
Linux Administrators Security Guide
We are working on the detailed description of this book, we will update this section soon.
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Practical UNIX Internet Security (S. Garfinkel, G. Spafford)
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Linux Security HOWTO (K. Fenzi, D. Wreski)
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Linux Firewall Configuration Packet Filtering and Netfilter/iptables (O. Andreasson)
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