The wiki used to have an article about securing a linux server. If the spambots haven't completely trashed it, you might want to check it out.
If you're running anything bigger than a private LAN server, perhaps the most important rule of thumb -- and this applies regardless of OS -- is don't run your server under the "root" account for linux OS's, or with administrator access on Windows systems. Run them under an account that has no more access than it absolutely needs to run the world/zone servers, and set permissions on your file system so that areas that hold your personal documents/items are off-limits to the account the emu server runs under.
(Edit: Ok, now I'm confused. I posted AFTER the two posts that follow this one, but it's located above Angelox's in the sequence. Maybe the clock was wrong and got moved back between their posts and mine...)
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