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VTun

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VTun provides an easy and simpler way to create virtual tunnels between TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression and encryption. It supports IP, PPP, SLIP, Ethernet and other tunnel types.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

ActiveX and mobile code

Here's a really good article by Steve Bellovin and others from CERT that attempt to provide "risk management" instead of "risk avoidance"

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Best Practices in Network Security

This is a document discusses an interesting perspective on network security and how to develop a sound security strategy.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Network Settings for Security

This is a Sun document that describes what many of the most common TCP and UDP network security vulnerabilities exist, as well as how to reduce their threat.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Nessus

Nessus is a free, powerful, and up-to-date security scanner that takes nothing for granted.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Snort

A one-of-a-kind content-based IDS tool that generates alerts to syslog and/or text files. Comes with more than 1100 attack signatures.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

RFC2267: Defeating IP Spoofing

RFC 2267, "Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks Which Employ IP Source Address Spoofing" by Paul Ferguson and Daniel Senie details methods for filtering spoofed packets on your network

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

IPTraf

IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility for Linux. It gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte c

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Secure Shell

SSH is a powerful, yet easy-to-use application that uses strong cryptography for protecting all transmitted confidential data, including passwords, binary files, and administrative commands.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Computer Oracle and Password System (COPS)

COPS is a collection of about a dozen programs that each attempt to tackle a different problem area of UNIX security. Kind of dated now, but still valuable.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

How to setup IPsec interoperable for Linux, OpenBSD and Kame/*BSD

Aim of this document to give some examples for setting up IPsec between different operating systems. Tested platforms were OpenBSD 3.3, GNU/Linux using Super-FreeS/WAN 1.99_kb4, Kame/NetBSD 1.6.1, Windows 2000 and PGPNet on WindowsME.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

FreeS/WAN IPSEC HOWTO

FreeS/WAN is a Linux implementation of the IPSEC (IP security) protocols. IPSEC provides encryption and authentication services at the IP (Internet Protocol) level of the network protocol stack.

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Home Network Security

This CERT document gives home users an overview of the security risks and countermeasures associated with Internet connectivity, especially in the context of 'always-on' or broadband access services (such as cable modems and DSL).

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Bandwidth Limiting HOWTO

This document describes how to set up your Linux server to limit download bandwidth or incoming traffic and how to use your internet link more efficiently. This is useful when our internet link is slow or our LAN users download tons of mp3s and the n

Anthony Pell
Nov 29, 2004

Remote Gkrellm Over SSH Mini-HOWTO

In this Mini-HOWTO I'll be talking about what to do server side and client side to set up Gkrellm over ssh.

Anthony Pell
Nov 23, 2004

Rule Definition For Anomoly Based Intrusion Detection

This document describes another method for intrusion detection. It is based on a proactive ruleset as opposed to reactive ruleset.

Anthony Pell
Nov 23, 2004

rsync: A Backup Strategy for Modern Times

A tutorial on backing up servers via rsync.

Anthony Pell
Nov 23, 2004

Secure Passwordless Logins with SSH, Part 1-3

Many of my past newsletters have detailed configuration setups that required you to be able to execute commands on remote machines without interactively supplying a password. The next few articles will help show how you can set up such a system.

Anthony Pell
Nov 23, 2004

Hardening Linux Systems

The process of modifying a system to make it highly secure is known as hardening.

Anthony Pell
Nov 23, 2004

The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development

The approach used by this document is to instead shame developers into producing better systems.

Anthony Pell
Nov 23, 2004

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