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[nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog] Securing your Linux server is important to protect your data, intellectual property, and time, from the hands of crackers (hackers). The system administrator is responsible for security Linux box.

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[ITBoxS] IT News - 20 Linux Server Hardening Security Tips. [ITBoxS]: nixCraft: “Securing your Linux server is important to protect your data, intellectual property, and time, from the hands of crackers (hackers). In this first part of a Linux server security series, I will provide 20 hardening tips for default installation of Linux system.”

[exploring software and hardware security] exploring software and hardware security » Blog Archive » How the ...: License based applications (IDE, compilers, etc), applications with valuable IP inside (EDA applications, etc) and applications which have access to confidential information (DRM, authentication software, etc), in addition to their main logic, also require difficult protection schemes implemented inside which will ensure that the integrity, confidentiality and availability of the assets, inside these applications, will not be damaged.

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[nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog] Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices: Saying "don't login as root" is horseshit. It stems from the days when people sniffed the first packets of sessions so logging in as yourself and su-ing decreased the chance an attacker would see the root pw, and decreast the chance you got spoofed as to your telnet host target, You'd get your password spoofed but not root's pw.

[your computer and mobile guide] your computer and mobile guide Check List for Linux Security: If a cracker can see an encrypted password, crack it would a simple task. So, instead of storing the password in the passwd file, they are now stored in the shadow file which is readable only for root.

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[Am!NeS0Ft's blog] 10 More Hacking and Security Software Tools for Linux « Am ...: I wouldn’t really put SSH is the category of a security software testing tool. Granted it has to be one of the most important tools in use if you are going to be accessing remote clients via a shell but not really a software security testing tool.

[Matasano Chargen] Matasano Security LLC - Chargen - Enough With The Rainbow Tables ...: You can use a challenge-response scheme, where both sides usea math problem to prove to each other that they know thepassword, but neither side sends the password over the wire.These schemes are great, but they don’t work unless both sideshave access to the cleartext password —- in other words, theserver has to store them in the clear.

[Dan Walsh's Blog] Dan Walsh's Blog - Secure Virtualization Using SELinux (sVirt): When I was writing policy for Xen in RHEL5, I had initially required the administrator to label volume xen image devices as xen_image_t. The xen developers thought this was too difficult for the administrators to have to manage, and would cause too many failures. 

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