25 Aug
2004
25 Aug
'04
11:15 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:12:56 +0100, John Seago johnseago@two-ravens.org.uk wrote:
On Thursday broadband to my address will be enabled/activated, hitherto I have just used linux, as I have been both too lazy and incompetent to set up any security or a firewall, obviously with the thing being on non-stop I'm going to have to mend my ways.
As a first step, get a broadband adaptor (ADSL modem?) with a built in firewall. Close all unrequested incoming ports, for example I only have ports 22 and 80 open on the ADSL modem.
Then worry about ports and services on your various OS partitions. Testing inside and from without with nmap and nessus can be very eye openning :-)
Good luck!
Tim.