Fedora Security Tools spin

Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com
Thu Oct 30 06:19:14 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:04:22PM +0200, Adrian P wrote:
> 2008/9/5 Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com>
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:52:49AM +0200, Adrian Pilchowiec wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 03 of September 2008 23:00:44 Luke Macken wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:54:37AM +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
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> > > > > Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > > > > > Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
> > > > > >> I just came across a knoppix security tool live CD and thought it
> > > > > >> would be a good idea for a security tool fedora spin too.
> > > > > >> The tools are freely available at:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> http://knoppix-std.org/index.html
> > > > > >> and are all GPLed?
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Do you guys think this is a good idea, I am sure such a spin does
> > > > > >> not exists in Fedora yet.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Do you mean something like Luke Macken put together?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LukeMacken/SecurityLiveCD
> > > > >
> > > > > Yeah but more tools and more bare bones,
> > > > > Perhaps i can assist Luke in this?
> > > >
> > > > Absolutely!
> > > >
> > > > I'm in the process of rebasing the kickstart against the latest livecd
> > > > base, and I will be pushing it through the New Spin Process soon.
> > > >
> > > > More tools?  Yes.  I want it to ship with every security tool in
> > Fedora.
> > > > If you know of any that are missing from the list, please let me know.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Maybe it would be good to add OpenVAS [1] (free fork of nessus) to the
> > spin ?
> >
> > I added OpenVAS to the WishList, thanks!
> >
> >    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SecuritySpin#Wishlist
> >
> > luke
> >
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> 
> Got few other tools to propose:
> Lynis [1] - Security and system auditing tool
> Nebula [2] Intrusion signature generator
> Unhide [3] tool for searching hidden processes
> SARA [4] Security Auditor's Research Assistant
> SiLK [5] Security analysis tool for network developed by CERT
> ArpON [6] Detects and blocks all ARP poisoning/spoofing attacks.
> Bh (Beholder) [7] IDS for wireless networks.
> Distack [8] Framework for attack detection which allows for an integration
> of various detection methods as lightweight modules.
> Ttyrpld [9] Multi-os kernel-level tty logger

Added to the wishlist.  Thanks!

luke




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