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
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