Some weeks ago someone posted this link, which seems like a pretty good laundry list of tasks to consider when hardening a server:
http://www.average.org/cobalt/quick-security-guide.html Good Luck. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Werby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:39 PM Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] Am I missing something here > "Steve Mansfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Over the last 2 weeks we have had 6 Cobalts on our network HACKED!!! > > Out of the box the servers are not secure. That's pretty much the case for > most server and PC operating systems. You bought a toaster oven, not an > armored truck. You need to secure the box yourself, hire someone to do it > for you or cross your fingers, spin the barrel, pull the trigger and hope > the chamber that's on deck isn't loaded. If you post some details about the > security solution you had in place some of us migh be able to help. And > it's always possible your on an untrusted network with someone sniffing your > traffic. We need more details. And I do sympathize with your frustration. > I do a lot of security work for clients and based on my experience there's > been a significant increase in the frequency of hacked Cobalt servers over > the last year. > > -- > Steve Werby > President, Befriend Internet Services LLC > http://www.befriend.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > cobalt-security mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security > _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
