[Tutor] hacking 101

[Rob McGee]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 04:03:08PM -0500, kirk Bailey wrote:
> FreeBSD

Oh, that's probably a pretty good choice. I'm sure they have a security
mailing list which you could join by looking around their Web site. The
links from the LWN page I gave you will have very good information for
FreeBSD. Make sure everything is current for your release version. Make
sure that no unnecessary (unused) services are running. Portscan your
box and consider the results. (There are online services which will do
the scanning for you, if you don't want to do it yourself -- a good idea
in part because they also give you some free advice.) If your
collocation provider is trustworthy you can sleep well. :)

    Rob - /dev/rob0