[wellylug] Why security for home PCs could be more important than you realise

[Ilia Pavlenko]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Donald Gordon wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:17:44 +1300 (NZDT) Ilia Pavlenko <ip at globe.net.nz> wrote:
>
> > Well - That's a nice topic for a meeting :)
> >
> > First of all - FORGET TELNET, ONLY SSH !!! (i've been screwed for using
> > telnet - someone "sniffed" and rootkitted a SuSE-based server that i've
> > built...
>
> ssh is more convenient, anyway: I don't need to type my username at a
> prompt :-)
>
> > Second - if you don't need it - disable it :) Thats why i always go for
> > "custom" installs, and leave what I don't need.
>
> A good tool for this is lsof|grep IPv4 - it'll show you which
> *processes* are listening on various ports, something that can be
> otherwise difficult to ascertain.

/usr/bin/socklist is also useful :) and "nmap"


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