This document covers some of the main issues that affect Linux security. General philosophy and net-born resources are discussed.
A number of other HOWTO documents overlap with security issues, and those documents have been pointed to wherever appropriate.
This document is not meant to be a up-to-date exploits document. Large numbers of new exploits happen all the time. This document will tell you where to look for such up-to-date information, and will give some general methods to prevent such exploits from taking place.