TCP Wrappers Misconceptions
White Papers Both reading through the articles and discussion forums on security, and in discussing security with friends, I have encountered some misconceptions surrounding hosts.deny/hosts.allow and TCP Wrappers.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Watch For Top Linux/Unix Threats
News Use TCP wrappers to limit FTP access to certain IP addresses. Click here if you need to install TCP wrappers on your system. Fix -- Disable the services if at all possible; if not, use TCP wrappers to restrict access.
[October 22, 2002, 8:29]
IPFilter: A Unix Host-Based Firewall
White Papers With the advent of TCP wrappers and dedicated firewalling hardware, host-based firewall packages for UNIX operating systems have fallen by the wayside. Daemons such as inetd, xinetd, and tcpd allow hosts to effectively limit outside connections to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Trojan Horse Imposter Invades Unix
News Everybody uses TCP Wrappers. CERT officials say at least 52 sites have downloaded infected copies of TCP Wrappers, but that number is probably much higher, because several of them were mirror FTP sites.
[January 22, 1999, 17:03]
A Year Ago: Intel Unveils Tillamook
News Intel today took the wrappers off its first MMX Pentium chip to be optimised for mobile PCs. Most vendors will use the 10mm-high MMO 'mobile module' packaging but standard TCP packaging will also be available.
[September 7, 1998, 9:09]
Maximise Your Investment By Using Legacy Applications In .Net
News The HIS Transaction Integrator (TI) allows you to develop wrappers that run in the CICS client context and expose legacy applications as .Net servers. By creating HIS-TI wrappers for all of the key customer transactions, the application developers...
[July 10, 2003, 10:18]
Security Issues In Running An Email Server
White Papers It starts discussing system hardening (CIS security benchmarks, disabling services, TCP wrappers, Tripwire, logging, etc.from the perspective of an email system sysadmin. This paper discusses security topics with respect to administering an email...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Creating A Centralized Secure Log Server With Syslog-ng And Stunnel
White Papers Each of the reference machines discussed comes installed with OpenSSL, tcp wrappers, the Solaris 8 /dev/urandom patch, and the GNU development environment (gcc, and so on) and several other freeware packages.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Intel Unveils Tillamook
News Most vendors will use the 10mm-high MMO 'mobile module' packaging but standard TCP packaging will also be available. Ultra-thin notebooks and older notebook designs will use TCP. In TCP packaging, prices are $691 and $530 respectively.
[September 8, 1997, 13:47]
