8.6 Keeping up to date on security issues

Distributors maintain mailing lists and sites for fixes that relate to their Linux distributions. Here are some useful addresses for general information on security alerts:

SecurityFocus

Visit http://www.securityfocus.com/ for general security issues. From this site, you can also link to the BugTraq mailing list for the discussion and announcement of computer security vulnerabilities.

CERT Coordination Center

Visit http://www.cert.org/ for general information, and http://www.cert.org/contact_cert/certmaillist.html for a mailing list with current security fixes.

SecuriTeam

Visit http://www.securiteam.com/ for a mailing list with news on current security issues and tools.

SecurityTracker

Visit http://www.securitytracker.com/ for news on security. You can list the issues according to vendors, impacts, and other categories.

SANS/FBI list

Visit http://www.sans.org/top20/ for a list of the top vulnerabilities of computers.