This book is a typical New Riders production, well done, detailed, written for folks who know (or would like to know) what they are doing by folks who do know what they are doing. It is not a large print, . . .
Book review: Real World Linux Security: Intrusion Prevention, Detection and Recovery. Upon opening this book for the first time, I was immediately impressed by the vast amount of information presented. Simply skimming through the book's table of contents, it is easy to appreciate the wide range of topics covered by Toxen. . . .
This book is written for network managers and administrators. Readers should also be familiar with computing and network processes and terminology. Divided into 16 chapters, this book has a good flow about it. The focus is on helping the reader to understand just what security is, what to do when a system is compromised, and how to protect these systems in the future.. . .
Source: Guardian Digital - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
This EnGarde Quick Start guide is designed to help you quickly set up EnGarde Secure Linux, change user passwords, and manage certificates. Although this document is sufficient, we recommend you read the complete user manual for a full understanding of the system. . . .
Network Security Essentials is a skinny book by computer publishing standards. At 366 pages, it is hardly noticeable amid the Stonehenge of 900-1100 page tree killers on the high tech shelf. At that length, it is thoroughly impossible to cover every . . .
Allaire is pleased to present 7 new documents in our Allaire Security White Paper Series. Among these documents, you can find Procedure recommendation documents, and step-by-step walkthroughs of common default configurations for major platforms and web servers and how to lock . . .
Source: Alexander Reelsen [linuxsecurity.com.br] - Posted by Pete O'Hara
This document describes the process of securing and hardening the default Debian installation. In addition this document just gives a overview of what you can do to increase the security of your Debian GNU/Linux installation. Many parts of this HOWTO can . . .
Information systems are essential to most organizations today. The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information are critical to organizations' missions. However, many organizations form protection strategies for their information systems by focusing solely on infrastructure weaknesses; they fail to establish the . . .
Source: underground-book.org - Posted by Dave Wreski
The full text of "Underground: tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier" is now available for download. ""Underground is the compelling true story of the rise of the computer underground and the crimes of an elite group of . . .
Help Net Security has organized a contest in which participants have to write an opinion on the "most secure OS". The best five opinions will be published on the site and their authors will get a free copy of The FreeBSD . . .