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Absence of Malice - http://www.lightlink.com/fors/press/ddj9603.html
Editorial from Dr. Dobb's Journal about Randal Schwartz's felony convictions for running Crack on unauthorized machines.

Admin's Choice - Resources for Unix administrators - http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/P_securing_solaris.htm
Solaris system administration FAQs, articles and tips.

Adminschoice - Securing solaris OS - http://adminschoice.com/docs/securing_solaris.htm
Details some of the focus areas for security and provides suggestions to make it strong.

AIX 4.3 Network Hardening - http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/howto/2001-01-15/
Recipes to secure network services on AIX. Download of scripts available.

Auditing UNIX Systems: A Case Study - http://www.zeltser.com/auditing-unix-systems/
This report, written as a case study, presents results of a detailed information security audit of UNIX systems that belong to a fictitious company. It illustrates an approach to performing such an examination.

Coping with the Threat of Computer Security Incidents - ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/doc/guidelines/primer.txt
A primer from prevention through recovery by Russell L. Brand.

FreeBSD Handbook Security chapter - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/securing-freebsd.html
Securing FreeBSD

G A C T - Unix Passwords - http://www.geocities.com/gactnet/computers/unixpasswd.html
To get to "ROOT" you have to have somewhere to start. For the purposes of this file, that somewhere is with the 'passwd' file.

NIST Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse - http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/
Collects and disseminates computer security information and resources to help users, systems administrators, managers, and security professionals better protect their data and systems.

Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO - http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/
Online book on software security tips.

Securing Debian HOWTO - http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/
Protecting Debian during installation and securing network services.

TPEP Frequently Asked Questions - http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-security/evaluations/
The Computer Security Evaluation Frequently Asked Questions (V2.1)

Unix Security - http://www.spy.net/~jeeb/unix.html
Paper by Rajib K. Mitra about file permissions, daemons, stack overflows and scripts.

Unix security basics, Part 1 - http://www.itworld.com/Comp/3380/swol-1020-unix101/
Understanding file attribute bits and modes

Writing Safe Setuid Programs - http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bishop/secprog/index.html
Collection of papers on writing safe setuid programs by Matt Bishop.

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