[CLUE-Tech] Is someone trying to hack me?

[David Anselmi]

Michael J. Miller wrote:
> Any recommendations on hardening a linux box that's _slightly_ exposed
> to the outside world?
> 
> I've got a Redhat 8 server that's got a default apache install, behind a
> linksys firewall...ports for http and SSH are the only available ports.

Patch it as quickly as you can after patches come out.  Expect to be 
rooted and have a recovery plan handy (the public server should not have 
any private data nor access to private machines).

Perhaps I'm getting too cynical about this stuff.

Dave