Contents
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| August 2001 Volume 10 Number 8
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Features
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Tripwire
in the Enterprise: Integrating Tripwire into Big Brother |
Elena Khan |
| Khan describes how to integrate Tripwire into
BB. |
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Distributed Intrusion Detection with
Open Source Tools |
Jason Chan |
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Chan presents an example of an intrusion detection system comprising
open source tools such as Snort, OpenSSL, Stunnel, and MySQL.
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Have I Been Hacked?
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David Hughes |
| Hughes provides a following checklist that
allows you to determine whether your system has been compromised. |
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Simple Security Scripts from Simple Commands
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Randy Weidman |
| Weidman describes his implementation of a four
tier-warning program created from simple UNIX commands in conjunction with
Portsentry. |
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Firewall Log-Checking Techniques
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Mark Prager |
| Prager provides some tips for sifting through
logs generated by Checkpoint’s Firewall-1. |
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Jailed Internet Services
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Liam Widdowson |
| Widdowson explains how to configure software
to execute within a chroot jail and describes the security benefits. |
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Locking the Front Door of Password Security
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Victor Burns |
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Burns describes a PAM created to check the strength of site passwords.
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Web Exclusive
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Which OS is Fastest
-- FreeBSD Follow-Up
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Jeffrey Rothman and John Buckman |
| In response to concern about the lack of FreeBSD
kernel tuning done for their previous article (July), the authors have retuned and retested.
Here are the results. |
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Integrit for File Verification
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Ed L. Cashin
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Cashin describes a free software tool to help sys admins stay in touch
with and trust the files on their systems.
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Freeware Intrusion
Detection Tools
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Ido Dubrawsky
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Dubrawsky surveys host-based and network-based intrusion detection tools.
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Homebrew Intrusion
Detection Systems
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Chris Kuethe
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Kuethe covers some basic setup considerations for a network intrusion
detection system.
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Firewall Reporter
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Alex Le Fevre |
| LeFevre describes a tool to allow administrators
to generate firewall reports on demand and provide automatic notification
of potential problems. |
Columns
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Large File System Backup
Tool
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W. Curtis Preston |
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Developing a Perl Routine
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Randal L. Schwartz |
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Books: A User’s
Report
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Elizabeth Zinkann |
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Questions and Answers
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Amy Rich |
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Code Availability |
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Editor's syslog |
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Advertiser Index
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Career Opportunities |
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