There will be others who can add more
I wouldn't be too worried though in such an environment especially as
you are behind a firewall and you are running AV on your windows
machines but I would make sure that the only accounts that can login are
yours and your wifes ( set all others for nologin) with sensible
passwords and also make sure that any default passwords for any
installed software are changed, this I think however this is pretty much
standard in a linux install these days.
after a fresh install or on a system that you know is ok you can run
something like rkhunter- root kit hunter so take a snap of the files and
then schedule it to run daily to check for differences or maldet malware
detect etc.
Then you can install an anti virus such as one of these
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/
I found our exploit by detective means but when testing afterwards
clamav flagged up some of the problem code.
And for those who think linux is invicible
<http://www.exploit-db.com/platform/?p=linux&pg=19> however I don't want
to cause mass panic and our hack was caused by a distraction during
testing while I was Ill and overworked and pushed to deliver something
that was known to be risky. Its much easier to attack systems than
defend them however common sense is your best ally
IanW
On 26/02/14 17:56, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
> How is the Linux machine vulnerable across the LAN and how can I
> mitigate it?
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
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