how can i know if there is a hole on my machine?
Something i don't know?
You may never know, but you can try to keep things as secure as
possible.
keep you patches/packages up to date...check for security updates.
Run the tools that where suggested in the other posts.
If you are using a
Hi,
- Activate proper firewall rules (iptables or ipchains)
- Check your Boxes security with portscanner tools
from outside. Tools:
Nmap or Nessus
- Check your system files integrity. Tools:
Tripwire or AIDE
- Check you logs:
manually or with tools: logchecker or logsurfer
- Want to now
Hi you all, well THANK YOU very much for the answers,
i thought that you could not hack a machine with FTP,
but when i started to look for the logs, i saw 3 guys
trying to get thru the ftp, but only conected for like
a second.
Now i disabled the FTP and only work on sftp.
I would like to ask the
I'd run an nmap scan of my box. do urpmi nmap --fuzzy to find out all
the rpms available here (nmap is nmap but there are some different gui's
available) Run the scan and if you see something open that you don't
want open, close it. The biggest reason this is useful is because it's
the same
As an additional precaution, you might want to look into getting and using
chkrootkit. It searches your system for evidence that you've already been
hacked, and seems to check for a fairly comprehensive list of trojans, worms,
etc.
If you're serious about security, you should also look into
