<div dir="ltr">The most important thing you can do is FIREWALL outbound traffic as well as inbound.<div><br></div><div>It's a great deal of work, but clearly nepharious traffic will be dropped.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Bob Elzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.elzer@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.elzer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">My question would be, how many times a day does someone try to break into your system ?</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you don't know the answer then maybe you should be running a firewall.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It really depends on whether your network is secure or not, usually what secures your network is a firewall. If that's the one on your router then that should be enough.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Looking in your log files for strange IP's and failed password attempts will let you know if people are trying to get in, if you're running a web server look in the error logs for attempts to access non existing files, usually a bunch from the same IP.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Windows may have more vulnerabilities, but they will still try to break into Linux systems.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Search and read about fail2ban, that's one tool to use when you need to have a service open to the internet.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hope this helps<br>
</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 26, 2014 8:15 PM, "Michael Havens" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>I hear people say, "Even Linux users need a firewall."<br></div>My question is..... why? I've runlinux since '98 w/o a firewall (aside from the one sent with my modem/router). Isn't that good enough?<br clear="all">
<div><div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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