[ Thanks to Mike
Weber for this link. ]
“AppArmor is one way to protect your assets on your Ubuntu Gutsy
system.“AppArmor attempts to protect processes on the server or desktop
from security threats. AppArmor enforces limits on what processes
can access on the system. It attempts to restrict processes to
those resources that the process requires to function only.
AppArmor will not only define the system resources a program can
access, it will also determine the privileges with which it can
access those resources. To protect applications you will need to
set up a security profile for each application that you want to
protect…”