RE: Question for you all

2003-07-07 Thread Brad Bemis
PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question for you all I agree. FreeBSD and moreso, OpenBSD, are indeed more secure by default and you are correct that this doesn't mean it's more secure over all, there's just less word, at first. However, look at the kernel for OpenBSD compared to Linux

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-07 Thread Steve Bremer
Bastille Linux (http://www.bastille-linux.org/) and Immunix (http://www.immunix.org/) definitely fit the bill. I've worked with both and have been quite pleased with their overall security. Let's not forget about one of my favorites: Openwall/*/GNU Linux. www.openwall.com Steve Bremer

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-04 Thread Tim Greer
, consulting. - Original Message - From: exon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CreativeSell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 5:13 AM Subject: Re: Question for you all On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, CreativeSell wrote: Hi All, Having just got off an awful php host, my

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-04 Thread Ivan Coric
Hi ae, I think some of your comments are not exactly correct. OpenBSD is secure by default because no services running, as soon as you activate httpd or alike the actual daemon is what will be the problem not the under lying OS. As for RedHat, I like it, you can make it as secure as any distro,

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-04 Thread Tim Greer
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: Question for you all Hi ae, I think some of your comments are not exactly correct. OpenBSD is secure by default because no services running, as soon as you activate httpd or alike the actual daemon is what

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-03 Thread Tim Greer
Hi, Don't take this the wrong way--it's great you want to do this yourself and ensure it's secure and rely on your own knowledge and efforts to secure the server, but there's an incredible amount more than just keeping up to date on software and informed of security issues/alerts. You should

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-03 Thread m0use
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:49, CreativeSell wrote: .what else can we do? Olly Bastille it. http://www.bastille-linux.org/ Log everything and actually read the logs, use logsentry or swatch to manage them. Use a system integrity monitor like tripwire.

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-03 Thread vincent
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:49:32 +0100 CreativeSell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi All, Having just got off an awful php host, my partner and I have decided to get our own redhat server. However we are slightly apprhhensive about ebing hacked to pieces. we are keeping up to date with all bugtracks

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-03 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 17:49, CreativeSell wrote: Hi All, Having just got off an awful php host, my partner and I have decided to get our own redhat server. However we are slightly apprhhensive about ebing hacked to pieces. we are keeping up to date with all bugtracks and security

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-03 Thread Birl
csell: Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:49:32 +0100 csell: From: CreativeSell [EMAIL PROTECTED] csell: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] csell: Subject: Question for you all csell: csell: Hi All, csell: csell: Having just got off an awful php host, my partner and I have decided to get csell: our own redhat

RE: Question for you all

2003-07-03 Thread Maher Odeh
Hello , everyone is worried about being hacked or if someone deface his website, and everyone try to avoid it what you should do is the maximum to protect your site this includes : updating all of your packages installed on the system reading alot about securing linux i recommend ( securing

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-03 Thread Jeff
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:49:32PM +0100, CreativeSell wrote: Hi All, Having just got off an awful php host, my partner and I have decided to get our own redhat server. However we are slightly apprhhensive about ebing hacked to pieces. we are keeping up to date with all bugtracks and

RE: Question for you all

2003-07-03 Thread John Brightwell
-Original Message- From: CreativeSell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 June 2003 22:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question for you all Hi Olly, Probably the first thing I'd do is get hold of a private email address that isn't easily associated with your site and use that to

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-03 Thread exon
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, CreativeSell wrote: Hi All, Having just got off an awful php host, my partner and I have decided to get our own redhat server. However we are slightly apprhhensive about ebing hacked to pieces. we are keeping up to date with all bugtracks and security updates...what

Re: Question for you all

2003-07-03 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 30/06/03 22:49 +0100, CreativeSell wrote: Having just got off an awful php host, my partner and I have decided to get our own redhat server. However we are slightly apprhhensive about ebing hacked to pieces. we are keeping up to date with all bugtracks and security updates...what else can