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How could any list of links to security related information not include the
authoritative center of information on security holes? Thanks go to the guys
at Carnegie Mellon.
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Security news, security tools, UNIX focus, Windows focus, information about
security holes and exploits... it's a nice all-roundup website.
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This other site centers only around the Linux OS, but it also includes lots
and lots of tutorials, HOWTOs and other interesting documentation.
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The CIS provides methods and tools to improve, measure, monitor and compare
the security status of Internet connected systems. They offer tools one can
download to score the security of a system against their own benchmarks.
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The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) website, an effort to make it
easier to share data between all different vulnerability databases and
security tools. It is not a database in and by itself.
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The Open Source Vulnerability Database attempts to gather information from
all vulnerability databases that are freely available, as well as provide its
own infrastructure to keep track of security issues.
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Online community to develop a Linux firewall distribution with a nice web
based configuration tool and lots of features. Check out their mission
statement for more information.
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We all know how binaries with the setuid/setgid bit set are potentially
dangerous. This website compares a list of such binaries in some Linux
distribution as well as Solaris, and also allows you to search for a given
binary to see its default permissions.
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