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http://geminis.dyndns.org [Flavio’s TechnoTalk] The Internet has become a far more dangerous place than it was 20 years ago. Nowadays, Operating System and application security is an integral part of a server configuration and, while firewalls are very important, they are not the panacea.

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Sitepoint.comhttp://www.sitepoint.com [Sitepoint.com] Review: Linux Server Security - SitePoint Open Source Blog: Bauer used some popular Linux distributions to base his security research on, including Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE and Debian, though much of the material covered should work fine on most distributions and BSD. For those who are familiar with the first edition from a few years ago, the author has revalidated much of the existing content and also added content for:

[Blogs.apress.com] Ablog: the Apress Weblog: They are frequently deployed into bastion or Internet-facing networks. IDS works by using sensors, usually network taps such as port spanning, and forwarding network traffic to an IDS server, which can take the form of software or a hardware appliance.

http://plasticboy.com [Plasticboy.com] PlasticBoy: Linux Enterprise Server, Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell Linux Desktop, patch management, and a range of identity-based services for management, integration and security.

Technorati.comhttp://www.technorati.com [Technorati.com] Technorati: Tag: operating systems: The Internet has become a far more dangerous place than it was 20 years ago. Nowadays, Operating System and application security is an integral part...

Softpanorama.org[Softpanorama.org] Softpanorama (Slightly Skeptical) Sun Solaris Security and ...: Casper Dik's Weblog Solaris Privileges .GeodSoft How-To Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers Contents -- althouth this is about OpenBSD, .

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