Practical UNIX and Internet security / Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, and Alan Schwartz.

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When Practical Unix Security was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubled the size of the original volume. The third edition is a comprehensive update of this very popular book - a companion for the Unix/Linux system administrator who needs to secure his or her organization's system, networks, and web presence in an increasingly hostile world.Focusing on the four most popular Unix variants today--Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD--this book contains new information on PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), LDAP, SMB/Samba, anti-theft technologies, embedded systems, wireless and laptop issues, forensics, intrusion detection, chroot jails, telephone scanners and firewalls, virtual and cryptographic filesystems, WebNFS, kernel security levels, outsourcing, legal issues, new Internet protocols and cryptographic algorithms, and much more. Practical Unix & Internet Security consists of six parts:

Computer security basics: introduction to security problems and solutions, Unix history and lineage, and the importance of security policies as a basic element of system security. Security building blocks: fundamentals of Unix passwords, users, groups, the Unix filesystem, cryptography, physical security, and personnel security. Network security: a detailed look at modem and dialup security, TCP/IP, securing individual network services, Sun's RPC, various host and network authentication systems (e.g., NIS, NIS+, and Kerberos), NFS and other filesystems, and the importance of secure programming. Secure operations: keeping up to date in today's changing security world, backups, defending against attacks, performing integrity management, and auditing. Handling security incidents: discovering a break-in, dealing with programmed threats and denial of service attacks, and legal aspects of computer security. Appendixes: a comprehensive security checklist and a detailed bibliography of paper and electronic references for further reading and research. Packed with 1000 pages of helpful text, scripts, checklists, tips, and warnings, this third edition remains the definitive reference for Unix administrators and anyone who cares about protecting their systems and data from today's threats.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. xiii)
• Part I. Computer Security Basics
• 1. Introduction: Some Fundamental Questions (p. 3)
• What Is Computer Security? (p. 5)
• What Is an Operating System? (p. 6)
• What Is a Deployment Environment? (p. 8)
• 2. Unix History and Lineage (p. 11)
• History of Unix (p. 12)
• Security and Unix (p. 23)
• Role of This Book (p. 30)
• 3. Policies and Guidelines (p. 32)
• Planning Your Security Needs (p. 33)
• Risk Assessment (p. 35)
• Cost-Benefit Analysis and Best Practices (p. 38)
• Policy (p. 45)
• Compliance Audits (p. 53)
• Outsourcing Options (p. 54)
• The Problem with Security Through Obscurity (p. 61)
• Part II. Security Building Blocks
• 4. Users, Passwords, and Authentication (p. 67)
• Logging in with Usernames and Passwords (p. 68)
• The Care and Feeding of Passwords (p. 76)
• How Unix Implements Passwords (p. 82)
• Network Account and Authorization Systems (p. 91)
• Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) (p. 94)
• 5. Users, Groups, and the Superuser (p. 98)
• Users and Groups (p. 98)
• The Superuser (root) (p. 105)
• The su Command: Changing Who You Claim to Be (p. 109)
• Restrictions on the Superuser (p. 117)
• 6. Filesystems and Security (p. 122)
• Understanding Filesystems (p. 122)
• File Attributes and Permissions (p. 127)
• chmod: Changing a File's Permissions (p. 136)
• The umask (p. 142)
• SUID and SGID (p. 145)
• Device Files (p. 155)
• Changing a File's Owner or Group (p. 157)
• 7. Cryptography Basics (p. 161)
• Understanding Cryptography (p. 161)
• Symmetric Key Algorithms (p. 169)
• Public Key Algorithms (p. 180)
• Message Digest Functions (p. 187)
• 8. Physical Security for Servers (p. 194)
• Planning for the Forgotten Threats (p. 194)
• Protecting Computer Hardware (p. 197)
• Preventing Theft (p. 211)
• Protecting Your Data (p. 216)
• Story: A Failed Site Inspection (p. 226)
• 9. Personnel Security (p. 230)
• Background Checks (p. 231)
• On the Job (p. 233)
• Departure (p. 236)
• Other People (p. 237)
• Part III. Network and Internet Security
• 10. Modems and Dialup Security (p. 241)
• Modems: Theory of Operation (p. 242)
• Modems and Security (p. 246)
• Modems and Unix (p. 257)
• Additional Security for Modems (p. 265)
• 11. TCP/IP Networks (p. 267)
• Networking (p. 267)
• IP: The Internet Protocol (p. 271)
• IP Security (p. 290)
• 12. Securing TCP and UDP Services (p. 305)
• Understanding Unix Internet Servers and Services (p. 306)
• Controlling Access to Servers (p. 314)
• Primary Unix Network Services (p. 329)
• Managing Services Securely (p. 389)
• Putting It All Together: An Example (p. 399)
• 13. Sun RPC (p. 407)
• Remote Procedure Call (RPC) (p. 408)
• Secure RPC (AUTH_DES) (p. 411)
• 14. Network-Based Authentication Systems (p. 421)
• Sun's Network Information Service (NIS) (p. 422)
• Sun's NIS+ (p. 431)
• Kerberos (p. 438)
• LDAP (p. 447)
• Other Network Authentication Systems (p. 453)
• 15. Network Filesystems (p. 456)
• Understanding NFS (p. 457)
• Server-Side NFS Security (p. 468)
• Client-Side NFS Security (p. 473)
• Improving NFS Security (p. 474)
• Some Last Comments on NFS (p. 483)
• Understanding SMB (p. 485)
• 16. Secure Programming Techniques (p. 498)
• One Bug Can Ruin Your Whole Day... (p. 498)
• Tips on Avoiding Security-Related Bugs (p. 505)
• Tips on Writing Network Programs (p. 514)
• Tips on Writing SUID/SGID Programs (p. 516)
• Using chroot() (p. 519)
• Tips on Using Passwords (p. 520)
• Tips on Generating Random Numbers (p. 522)
• Part IV. Secure Operations
• 17. Keeping Up to Date (p. 533)
• Software Management Systems (p. 533)
• Updating System Software (p. 538)
• 18. Backups (p. 544)
• Why Make Backups? (p. 545)
• Backing Up System Files (p. 561)
• Software for Backups (p. 565)
• 19. Defending Accounts (p. 571)
• Dangerous Accounts (p. 571)
• Monitoring File Format (p. 583)
• Restricting Logins (p. 584)
• Managing Dormant Accounts (p. 586)
• Protecting the root Account (p. 591)
• One-Time Passwords (p. 595)
• Administrative Techniques for Conventional Passwords (p. 600)
• Intrusion Detection Systems (p. 613)
• 20. Integrity Management (p. 616)
• The Need for Integrity (p. 616)
• Protecting Integrity (p. 618)
• Detecting Changes After the Fact (p. 622)
• Integrity-Checking Tools (p. 630)
• 21. Auditing, Logging, and Forensics (p. 641)
• Unix Log File Utilities (p. 642)
• Process Accounting: The acct/pacct File (p. 664)
• Program-Specific Log Files (p. 666)
• Designing a Site-Wide Log Policy (p. 670)
• Handwritten Logs (p. 673)
• Managing Log Files (p. 676)
• Unix Forensics (p. 677)
• Part V. Handling Security Incidents
• 22. Discovering a Break-in (p. 683)
• Prelude (p. 683)
• Discovering an Intruder (p. 686)
• Cleaning Up After the Intruder (p. 700)
• Case Studies (p. 713)
• 23. Protecting Against Programmed Threats (p. 734)
• Programmed Threats: Definitions (p. 735)
• Damage (p. 746)
• Authors (p. 747)
• Entry (p. 749)
• Protecting Yourself (p. 750)
• Preventing Attacks (p. 762)
• 24. Denial of Service Attacks and Solutions (p. 767)
• Types of Attacks (p. 767)
• Destructive Attacks (p. 769)
• Overload Attacks (p. 769)
• Network Denial of Service Attacks (p. 787)
• 25. Computer Crime (p. 795)
• Your Legal Options After a Break-in (p. 795)
• Criminal Hazards (p. 801)
• Criminal Subject Matter (p. 805)
• 26. Who Do You Trust? (p. 811)
• Can You Trust Your Computer? (p. 811)
• Can You Trust Your Suppliers? (p. 815)
• Can You Trust People? (p. 823)
• Part VI. Appendixes
• A. Unix Security Checklist (p. 831)
• B. Unix Processes (p. 850)
• C. Paper Sources (p. 873)
• D. Electronic Resources (p. 883)
• E. Organizations (p. 896)
• Index (p. 907)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Gene Spafford, Ph.D., CISSP, is an internationally renowned scientist, professor, and director of Purdue University CERIAS, the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security
Alan Schwartz, Ph.D., is assistant professor of clinical decision making in the Departments of Medical Education and Pediatrics at the University of Illinois at Chicago