Out of the Inner Circle: The True Story of a Computer Intruder Capable of Cracking the Nation's Most Secure Computer Systems by Bill Landreth

Author:Bill Landreth [Landreth, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Computer, Hacking, Technology, Security
Publisher: Savetz Publishing
Published: 2016-06-28T07:00:00+00:00

A Security Checklist

I should mention here that most systems in use today should be considered quite secure and would be if they were run as they were designed to be run. Security is easier to neglect on some systems than it is on others, but most systems have many passive security tools that the users are free to use—or to ignore.

Certain systems have little quirks or tendencies that may make life easier for a hacker, but the real responsibility for security belongs to the users and the operators. A system may enable a hacker to see who is logged on before he starts hacking, but it is the users who choose passwords that the hacker finds so easy to guess. A system may make it easy to go with certain well-known defaults, but it is the system operator or programmer who decides to use them. Just as people may go out at night, leaving doors or windows open in their houses, users and operators may neglect system security.

But, as you can see, threat or nuisance, vandals or pranksters, hackers can cause headaches if they gain access to your system. Even if you don’t handle huge amounts of money or process top-secret data, your system could still attract hackers—most particularly if it’s easy to access or if it’s a state-of-the-art machine, the kind that hackers especially like to find. It’s important to evaluate what you’ve got and what you need, so in light of the preceding discussions, here is a security checklist covering the most popular operating systems. This information is not based on any research study or statistical analysis. It’s based on my own experiences as a hacker and on my conversations with other hackers, system operators, and system programmers. It’s a hacker’s impressions of system security. You might say it’s the view from the other side of the modem.

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