distro cant protect your system from intrusion. try installing a good firewall and if possible try installing port sensor to automate ip blocking.
you can use ipchains (2.2.x) or iptables (2.4.x) and portsentry for port sensor. Quoting "[K][R][Y][P][T][O][N]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Good day to all! > > For the past years I have been using REDHAT distro on my servers. > Its really easy to use and easy to install the only problem is that > every time I use RH I have this feeling that my servers are not that > secured. > > Last week I installed RH 7.2 as a WEB server...2 days after it was hacked. > As much as i want to use the newer versions it seems like its easy for > everybody > to get into my system. > > Thats why i cannot upgrade my TRUSTIX servers.. After I installed it that > hacking stopped. > I hope you can give me some advice on how to secure my servers.. I want to > use latest distros but i dont know how and what to secure first. > > Questions: > 1. Do I have to try other distros? What can you suggest? > 2. Security threaths that I need to look at? > > Please advice. > > thank you > > SUPERMAN > --- H o w a r d R. B a g c a t WebAdmin, MUWeb - Edition 4 Project <http://www.mu.edu.ph> Systems Programmer, RBT & MUMC Project Misamis University Ozamiz City, Philippines office: 088 521 0367 local 109 mobile: 63 0919 5536179 email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagination is more important than knowledge -Albert Einstein Sulat @MU.edu.ph v.1.0 (Stable) ....................................................................................... An extended module for MUWeb4 Project of Howard R. Bagcat Powered by GNU General Public License softwares. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
