SecurityFocus Article Announcement: Incident Response Tools For Unix, Part One: System Tools

[Dan Hanson <dhanson () securityfocus com>]

Hey incidents subscribers, many times posters to this list have questions
about odd behaviour on a host and the answer is usually to run some
investigative tools. The following series will hopefully help people
investigating potential breaches on Unix or Linux systems.

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Incident Response Tools For Unix, Part One: System Tools

By Holt Sorensen

This article is the first in a three-part series on tools that are useful
during incident response and investigation after a compromise has occurred
on a OpenBSD, Linux, or Solaris system. This installment will focus on
system tools, the second part will discuss file-system tools, and the
concluding article will look at network tools.

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1679




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