Just a good firewall. Services are irrelavent (a firewall can block outside access to internally available services -- thus NFS can be for your LAN only), you simply need a firewall if you want true security. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "David S. Cargo" <cargods at storage.network.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:44 PM Subject: [TCLUG] DSL-attached Linux safety > I found this recent article about hack attacks: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/20714.html > > I now have my Linux box (Red Hat 6.2 plus misc updates) on a DSL > line behind a Cisco 678. > > What protections do I need to have in place to have a reasonable > chance of avoiding getting hacked? > > The system is not on the net 24/7; it's only connected when I'm > surfing the web. > > With this box I don't intend to have any external services available. > I guess that means I don't need an ftp daemon or an http daemon. Are > there other services I could/should turn off? > > Is there a web page somewhere that would tell me how to secure this > system? > > Thanks. > > dsc > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >