| Absence of Malice: Editorial from Dr. Dobb's Journal about Randal Schwartz's felony convictions for running Crack on unauthorized machines. |
| Admin's Choice - Resources for Unix administrators: Solaris system administration FAQs, articles and tips. |
| Adminschoice - Securing solaris OS: Details some of the focus areas for security and provides suggestions to make it strong. |
| AIX 4.3 Network Hardening: Recipes to secure network services on AIX. Download of scripts available. |
| Auditing UNIX Systems: A Case Study: 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. |
| Coping with the Threat of Computer Security Incidents: A primer from prevention through recovery by Russell L. Brand. |
| FreeBSD Handbook Security chapter: Securing FreeBSD |
| G A C T - Unix Passwords: To get to "ROOT" you have to have somewhere to start. For the purposes of this file, that somewhere is with the 'passwd' file. |
| NIST Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse: 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: 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: Online book on software security tips. |
| Secure UNIX Programming FAQ: Definitions of security holes, security principles, how to access files safely, and untainting input. |
| Securing Debian HOWTO: Protecting Debian during installation and securing network services. |
| TPEP Frequently Asked Questions: The Computer Security Evaluation Frequently Asked Questions (V2.1) |
| Unix Security: Paper by Rajib K. Mitra about file permissions, daemons, stack overflows and scripts. |
| Unix security basics, Part 1: Understanding file attribute bits and modes |
| Writing Safe Setuid Programs: Collection of papers on writing safe setuid programs by Matt Bishop. |
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