Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 Edition, Eighth Edition

Chapter 30. Securing Your Machines

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• Understanding Computer Attacks

• Assessing Your Vulnerability

• Protecting Your Machine

• Viruses

• Configuring Your Firewall

• Forming a Disaster Recovery Plan

• Keeping Up-to-Date on Linux Security Issues

• Understanding SELinux

• Reference

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No home computer with a connection to the Internet is 100% safe. If this information does not concern you, it should! Although there is no way to stop a serious cracker who is intent on getting into your computer or network, there are ways to make it harder for him and to warn you when he does.

In this chapter, we discuss all aspects of securing your Linux machines. You might have wondered why we did not spread this information around the book wherever ...