Security Resources

I have collected some security resources together here. All papers and software are mirrored locally.

Mail

Look up a host in the MAPS RBL
Look up a host in the ORBS RBL
Check your own mailhost to see if it acts as an open relay
Relay control in Sendmail 8.9.x
Spamcop spam reporting service

Tools

General Papers

These papers are all aimed at giving the reader a good feel for the area they are concerned with.

Venema's paper on Murphy's law and computer security
Farmer and Venema's classic paper on Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into it
Eichin and Rochlis' analysis of the 1988 Internet Worm
Cheswick's paper An Evening with Berferd
Aleph One's paper on Stack-based buffer overrun exploits

Other Downloads

A rather large dictionary I aquired a while ago (11Mb download, 35 Mb uncompressed)

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