Information Security Best Practices: 205 Basic Rules

This appendix contains a number of useful urls related to information security.
Incidence Response Centers
CERT Coordination Center
http://www.cert.org
Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC)
http://ciac.llnl.gov/
Defense Information Systems Agency
Center for Automated System Security
http://www.assist/mil
FBI - National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC)
http://www.fbi.gov/nipc/
Federal Computer Incidence Response Center
http://www.fedcirc.gov/
Forum of Incidence Response and Security Teams (FIRST)
http://www.first.org/
Vulnerability Sites
http://www.iss.net/cgi-bin/xforce
http://cve.mitre.org
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/projects/vdb.html
http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/vulnerabilities/#database/
Security Sites
http://www.sans.org
http://www.securityportal.com
http://www.nsi.org/compsec.html
http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/coast
http://www.icsa.net
http://cs-www.ncsa.nist.gov/
Hacker Sites
These sites may lead you to tools and techniques hackers use to break into sites. You may want to use these tools to test your system and network security.
| http://www.hackers.com | (Hackers.com) |
| http://www.cultdeadcow.com | (Cult of the Dead Cow) |
| http://www.defcon.org | (Def Con) |
| http://www.10pht.com | (LOPHT Heavy Industries) |
| http://www.2600.com | (2600 magazine) |
| http://www.phrack.com | (Phrack Magazine) |
| http://www.hackernews.com | (Hacker News Network) |
Mailing Lists
CERT Advisories:
CIAC Advisories:
COAST Security Archive:
FreeBSD Security Issues: