RE: [inbox] Re: RE: Linux (in)security

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dwr3ck () hushmail com [mailto:dwr3ck () hushmail com] 
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:09 AM
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: RE: [inbox] Re: [Full-disclosure] RE: Linux (in)security
>
> Question about Linux vs. Windows security.
>
> (first off, I'm a linux newbie)
>
> I can determine when a Windows box has been owned fairly easily.
>
> How do you determine if you have a KLM on your Linux box?  
> (serious question from someone who does not know)  I'm asking 
> specifically about Red Hat because I am a Corporate America 
> slave and IBM has made this the distribution that most of 
> corp America will use.
Your security department will tell you?

Seriously, you should take a look at F.I.R.E. (http://fire.dmzs.com/) and/or Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.net/).

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ 

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