Re: [cobalt-security] RE: 'On my Soap Box'

["Marc Gear" <marcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Please add me to the list of RAQ owners who are finding out that the
buying of the box and initial setup is the easy part. After having my RAQ3
hacked twice in 11 months, I need help. Need to re-install OS on the 3 and
and add some better protection to my RAQ4r as needed. Is there a wizard out
there who is available for such work? I have neither the knowledge nor the
time.
> Norm D

Security consultants cost the earth, and this mailing list is not a
recruitment agency for them anyway. You are far better learning to, and
doing it yourself.

The (free) advice I will give you is to learn how to do it youself, as it
will cost you less money (and time) in the long run. Else, look elsewhere to
employ people to do it for you. Follow all the links below, and you are
going to be getting drastically more secure than the default cobalt install.

http://www.cobalt.com/support/download/raq3
http://www.cobalt.com/support/download/raq4
http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/linux.html
http://www.openssl.org
http://www.openssh.com
http://www.insecure.org/nmap
http://www.chkrootkit.org/
http://www.tripwire.org/
http://www.psionic.com/abacus/portsentry/
http://www.psionic.com/abacus/logcheck/
http://www.bastille-linux.org

And if you manage all that then you are halfway towards making a halfway
secure server.
(that list is a lot longer than I intended... I guess there is maybe a lot
more to this security lark than people think and to think I left out tons of
links...)
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