I.4 Resources

Books

[Hatch+ 02] Hatch, Brian, James Lee, and George Kurtz. Hacking Linux Exposed: Linux Security Secrets Solutions, Second Edition . Get this book!

[Himanen+ 01] Himanen, Pekka, Manuel Castells, and Linus Torvalds. The Hacker Ethic . An intellectual treatment of hacking and hackers.

[Nemeth+ 02] Nemeth, Evi, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, and Adam Boggs. Unix System Administration Handbook . This is the Bible for Unix sysadmins .

[Raymond+ 97] Raymond, Eric S., and Bob Young. The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source . An interesting read about the nature of Open Source, based on Eric Raymond's experience with the development of fetchmail.

[Schneier 00] Schneier, Bruce. Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World . Not a book on how to be secure, but on how to think about security, and just how difficult it is to be truly secure. A must-read for just about anyone in this networked world.

[Torvalds+ 01] Torvalds, Linus, and David Diamond. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary . The biography of the creator of Linux that's a short, easy, and fun read.

Web Sites

Apache : www.apache.org ” the official Apache web page

Bugtraq : www.securityfocus.com ” use to keep track of security vulnerabilities

Hacker information : www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/HAKMEM.html ”what hacking is all about. See also www. tuxedo .org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hack.html ” the real definition of hacker

Linux : www.linux.org ” information on Linux

Linux security : www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO.html ” a must-read for securing your Linux box

Mozilla : www.mozilla.org ” the Mozilla browser is an Open Source web browser

MySQL : www.mysql.com ” the official MySQL web page

Open Source Development Network : www.osdn.com ”a network of Open Source web sites including Slashdot, Freshmeat, Sourceforge .net

Open Source : www.opensource.org ” interesting information and history relating to Open Source software

Perl : www.perl.com ” all things Perl begin here

Python : www.python.org

PHP : www.php.net ” PHP central

Sendmail : www.sendmail.org ” sendmail is the ubiquitous Open Source program that routes the majority of e-mail around the Internet

Slashdot : www.slashdot.org ” worth looking at daily

Source Forge : www.sourceforge.net ” Open Source software code for many projects is available here