Linux Hardening Tricks | Linux Today

Linux Hardening Tricks

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Mokhtar Ebrahim
Feb 18, 2019

Learn how to secure a Linux server using hardening best practices such as: 1 Disable Ctrl-Alt-Delete 2 Secure Mounted Filesystems 3 Protect /etc/services File 4 Remove Unused Accounts 5 Hardening Cron Scripts 6 Securing SUID Programs 7 Risky World-Writable Files and Directories 8 Risky Symlinks 9 Securing Log Files 10 Securing Linux Resources 11 Hardening /proc Directory

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Mokhtar Ebrahim

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