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 News: Host Security |
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| May 11, 2000 - Techniques and tools for penetration testing |
| There are hackers capable of penetrating almost any system. The good ones get paid for it. The bad ones pay for it. What is a hacker's approach to penetration testing? What tools do they use? In this column, Carole Fennelly . . . |
| May 10, 2000 - Windows-Haters Crow Over Worm |
| While most of the world convalesces from the Love Bug worm, people running alternatives to Windows are smugly congratulating themselves for knowing better than to use Microsoft software. "The point is that the root cause of these mass virus . . . |
| May 10, 2000 - Pow-Wow With Apache's Hackers |
| Can you be scalped nicely? Apache seems to think being red in the face beats being red in the accounting department after an embarrassing encounter with some clever and well-meaning hackers. . . . |
| May 10, 2000 - Cracked! Part 2: Watching and Waiting |
| In the second article Noel continues the story of when some Unix boxes that he helped admin were cracked. This article talks about watching the cracker with a sniffer and talking to the the FBI's Computer Crimes Squad. "On . . . |
| May 9, 2000 - Cracked! Part 1: Denial and Truth |
| In this article, Noel talks about how to determine if what's happened is an attack, or a misunderstanding. "The phone rings or an email comes in and someone tells you that they have reason to believe that your box . . . |
| May 8, 2000 - Secure Remote Access With SSH |
| The secure shell protocol (SSH) is one way to provide remote access without giving your information to anyone who might be watching. SSH provides a way to log in to another computer, like rsh or telnet, while encrypting all the . . . |
| May 6, 2000 - Installing Libsafe 1.3 on SuSE 6.x |
| The libsafe library protects a process against the exploitation of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in process stacks. Libsafe works with any existing pre-compiled executable and can be used transparently, even on a system-wide basis. The method intercepts all calls to library . . . |
| May 5, 2000 - How we defaced www.apache.org |
| The following article describes a "white-hat" effort to deface apache.org. They managed to obtain root on the apache.org server due to configuration errors and a "trojan-like trick." "This paper describes how, over the course of a week, we . . . |
| May 4, 2000 - ‘Love’ virus infects [Windows] e-mail systems |
| For you dual-booters of Linux and the other OS, there's another Melissa-like virus our there. "A new computer virus called “ILOVEYOU” went on a worldwide rampage Thursday, shutting down e-mail servers and deleting files. Researchers say the virus is . . . |
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