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Sites that teach users to secure Unix systems.

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• Absence of Malice

  http://www.lightlink.com/fors/press/ddj9603.html
  Editorial from Dr. Dobb's Journal about Randal Schwartz's felony convictions for running Crack on unauthorized machines.

• AIX 4.3 Network Hardening

  http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/howto/2001-01-15/
  Recipes to secure network services on AIX. Download of scripts available.

• Auditing UNIX Systems: A Case Study

  http://www.zeltser.com/auditing-unix-systems/
  This report, written as a case study, presents results of a detailed information security audit of UNIX systems that belong to a fictitious company. It illustrates an approach to performing such an examination.

• NIST Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse

  http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/
  Collects and disseminates computer security information and resources to help users, systems administrators, managers, and security professionals better protect their data and systems.

• Raw IP Networking FAQ

  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet/tcp-ip/raw-ip-faq/index.html
  Thamer Al-Herbish's Raw IP Networking FAQ about networking below TCP/UDP and sniffing networks. Includes raw socket source code.

• Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO

  http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/
  Online book on software security tips.

• Secure UNIX Programming FAQ

  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/programmer/secure-programming/
  Definitions of security holes, security principles, how to access files safely, and untainting input.

• Securing Debian HOWTO

  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/
  Protecting Debian during installation and securing network services.

• TPEP Frequently Asked Questions

  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-security/evaluations/
  The Computer Security Evaluation Frequently Asked Questions (V2.1)

• Unix Security

  http://www.spy.net/~jeeb/unix.html
  Paper by Rajib K. Mitra about file permissions, daemons, stack overflows and scripts.

• Unix security basics, Part 1

  http://www.itworld.com/swol-1020-unix101
  Understanding file attribute bits and modes

• Writing Safe Setuid Programs

  http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bishop/secprog/
  Collection of papers on writing safe setuid programs by Matt Bishop.

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