Linux Journal Contents #165, January 2008

Features

• The Tao of Linux Security: Five Lessons for a Secure Deployment  by Jeramiah Bowling
  Tighten up your systems from the start using this simple plan.
  
• Digging Up Dirt in the DNS Hierarchy, Part I  by Ron Aitchison
  Even when your DNS system is functioning normally, all may not be well below the surface.
  
• Introduction to Forensics  by Kyle Rankin
  Hit the ground running on your first forensics project with Autopsy and Sleuthkit.
  
• PacketFence Revisited  by Regis Balzard and Dominik Gehl
  PacketFence's extensive isolation mechanisms secure both your wired and wireless networks.
  

Indepth

• Interview with Eric Raymond  by Glyn Moody
  Eric Raymond on open source.
  
• GCC for Embedded Engineers  by Gene Sally
  A look at how GCC works and how to get the most out of this marvel of modern software engineering.
  
• GPG-Based Password Wallet  by Carl Welch
  Forget your passwords.
  
• Security in Qtopia Phones  by Lorn Potter
  Open source doesn't mean insecure.
  
• Separate the Static from the Dynamic with Tomcat and Apache  by Alan Berg
  Efficiency tricks with Apache and Tomcat.
  
• Creating VPNs with IPsec and SSL/TLS  by Rami Rosen
  The two most common and current techniques for creating VPNs.
  

Columns

• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Working with Facebook  
  
• Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Security's Front Door  
  
• Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Getting a Clue with WebGoat  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Numerology, or the Number 23  
  
• Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Browse the Web without a Trace  
  
• Doc Searls' EOF   Why to Build on FOSS in the First Place  
  

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