Yong Chu Eu () wrote:
Just to ask any expert that, Firewall (without Secure Linux enforcement) within fedora is enought to secure my fedora box? i wish to do some online banking transaction.
The presence or otherwise of a firewall has nothing to do with security of online banking transactions.
A firewall is used to control incoming network connexions. If you are not running any servers (eg mail, ftp, web server) you have little to worry about in that matter.
More important is your own behaviour, the security of your password, your response to emails "from your bank" providing you with the address of a site to confirm your details (ignore those, your bank won't do that) and so on.
The number of emails I've seen from banks (and ebay.co.uk and paypal) where I'm unknown, and even from support@ my own domain name....
Also important is the source of programs you download and install. Windows users are beset with programs that do more than advertised: "more" including sending your banking details to some criminal, sending email (spam), popping up ads etc etc.
I've not heard of that happening to Linux users, but it's perfectly possible, and I wonder why it hasn't. Sometimes an OSS site gets cracked (a Linux mirror in .nl, sendmail, sourceforge.net and Debian come to mind) but that's not common, mostly quickly detected and announced, and carefully attended to.
btw AFAIK these cracks didn't occur because of firewall problems, but rather because of poor password selection and control and similar human factors. And weak software - wu-ftpd was fairly well-known in this regard.
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