Slack's 10.2 security against crackers?

biledaemon · 10-28-2005, 09:44 PM

I am about to bring my business online, but I am concerned about ppl hacking into my linux box and trying to exploit it for security holes. What can I do to minimize this threat? I am using Apache and slack 10.2. I also have a router that has some capability for firewall configuration and my internal network has DNS, mail, ftp and web servers.

I am concerned about my box becoming the target of spamming or taken over by a bot to make it a zombie for DDOS attacks, etc...

Any thoughts, criticisms are most welcome.

Tinkster · 10-28-2005, 09:56 PM

If the only thing that the router will do is passing on 80/443 to
the Slackware Box your apache and the way you set-up what
your apache is going to do on your machine (e.g. permissions
of CGI scripts if that's what you're going to use) is the only thing
you really MUST concern yourself with. Slack does come with
very sane defaults in terms of security, you can hone that by
un-installing everything you're not going to need on the box.

Cheers,
Tink

biledaemon · 10-28-2005, 11:04 PM

sounds like slack is ready to go live. Thanks for your input.