In this installment we will be looking at some of the signatures related to the KOH rootkit. The purpose of this paper . . . You know how to use Linux and hey, you even got that modem working. People think you're smart because you know how to use Linux. This is part one of a two-part security series on DaemonNews.
Part one describes security in general terms.
Part two will drill down into specific strategies for securing common services. The funny thing about security is that we actually have quite a lot of it in the UNIX paradigm. We have users, groups, chroot, secure levels, and jails. The only problem is that we don't use any of it by default. . . .