[SWLUG] Technical Meeting Announcement and Call for Papers/Talks

[Carwyn Edwards]

I'm certainly happy to give a talk on basic Linux security.

2009/4/9 Chris King <swlug at csking.co.uk>:
> On Thu, April 9, 2009 16:33, Gerald Davies wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 15:52, Carwyn Edwards <hovercraft.eel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> Perhaps I coould do a talk on something security wise? About the DNS
> bug that was big a while back, or a tool like Kismet?
>>>
>>
>> How about something useful for punters to take away?  How about "How to
> harden your box and put measures in place to detect intrusion" ?!?!?
>>
>> The Linux users I see on day to day basis have absolutely no idea how to
> harden a box or would even know if an event took place :-(
>
> OOps, slip of the keyboard there...
>
> I'd agree with that - running Linux does NOT make you indestructible, as
> some of the fanboys would have you believe, and I've seen some god-awful
> setups over the years. Most of the Unix/Linux compromises I've had to
> investigate are NOT sophisticated hacks, they were usually caused by
> misconfiguration of application software, or through not applying security
> patches.
>
> A talk on basic security advice would probably go down better than trying
> to dissect the Kaminsky DNS bug - try explaining to managers that you need
> to patch your DNS servers right now, to apply updates that won't guarantee
> a 100% fix :-(
>
> Chris
>
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