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Home Routers: Remote Attacks Through Malicious JavaScript Exploit

They have demonstrated that users could open up their router's traffic as a result of visiting a web page loaded with malicious javascript. The researchers sai…

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Maximizing Apache Httpd Logs For Effective Monitoring And Tracking

No doubt you're already aware of the standard logfiles that Apache httpd creates for you.

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Exploring Security Challenges in Small Business Peer-to-Peer Networks

Most small business networks grow and evolve as the business grows. In one way, this is good. It shows the business is growing, becoming stronger. Unfortunatel…

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EnGarde Secure Linux Overview: Security Design By Guardian Digital

Secure By Design: How Guardian Digital Secures EnGarde Secure Linux ABSTRACT What is EnGarde Secure Linux?

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Security Challenges in OLPC Initiative for $100 Laptops

Cheap computers for the world's poor could mean big security headaches. The $100 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is inviting hackers to break test out and …

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Implementing Password Aging for Better User Security on Linux

Password aging is a mechanism that allows the system to enforce a certain lifetime for passwords.

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Northwestern and BBN Launch Quantum Cryptography Network Demo

Northwestern University researchers have joined forces with BBN Technologies to demonstrate what they are calling the first truly quantum cryptographic data ne…

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Security flaws found in RealPlayer

EEye Digital Security has uncovered new security holes affecting a wide range of RealNetworks' media players, the latest desktop-based bugs set to worry IT man…

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Students warn of hacking threat

Three Brisbane university students have discovered a major flaw in wireless network technology that means hackers can bring down critical infrastructure in as …

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Announcing the Fourth WorldWide WarDrive (WWWD)

The WWWD provides a snapshot of the security posture of currently deployed wireless access points throughout the world. During the Third WorldWide WarDrive, wh…

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Linux Security Week - March 15th 2004

This week, perhaps the most interesting articles include "Rumors of Third Vulnerability in Linux Kernel Prove Unfounded," "VLANs on Linux," and "Open Source Ge…

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Crypto-Gram November 15th 2003

Crypto-Gram is a free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and commentaries on security: computer and otherwise. This month, Airplane Ha…

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Crypto-Gram June 15th, 2003

Crypto-Gram is a free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and commentaries on computer security and cryptography. Discussed this month …

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Crypto-Gram, February 15th, 2003

CRYPTO-GRAM is a free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and commentaries on computer security and cryptography. In this issue, Random…

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Zero-Interaction Authentication

Laptops are vulnerable to theft, greatly increasing the likelihood of exposing sensitive files. Unfortunately, storing data in a cryptographic file system does…

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libpcap and tcpdump Sources Trojaned

tcpdump and libpcap were trojaned on tcpdump.org and all but 1 official mirror. This trojan, similar to the OpenSSH trojan from a few months ago, was caught Ge…

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Update: New Linux Kernel Exploit? / ABFrag

Daniel Roberts discovered a binary named "ABfrag" on one of his servers after detecting suspicious network activity. He sent in a note requesting anyone with i…

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August Crypto-Gram

This month's Crypto-Gram contains information about Palladium and the TCPA, The Doghouse: Cedium, Featured Counterpane Research, License to Hack, Counterpane N…

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Squid Vulnerability: Insecure forwarding of proxy_au

Vendors have not issued updates yet for a vulnerability just reported by the Squid Project. "Under some conditions Squid may forward the proxy authentication c…

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Apache Web Server Security Alert (Update)

Update: For millions of websites that were vulnerable care of ISS , Apache is not too happy. ISS (Internet Security Systems) released an insufficient patch alo…

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More Cross site Scripting in PHPNuke

PHPNuke seems to have a horrible security track record, but continues to be quite popular. No statement from the PHPNuke folks yet, but if you're using a rapid…

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PacketStormSecurity Announces New Corporate Alliances; Will Raise $25M in Angel/VC Funding

An announcement was made early this morning via the major wire services that the Internet's premiere information security resource, PacketStorm (http://www.pac…

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Security: Oh, that vulnerable feeling

There is no doubt that the Internet has brought unparalleled connectivity to computers, especially in the last few years. But ironically, this very advantage h…

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Who Needs Hackers? We've Got Microsoft!

The latest Microsoft bug is a doozy. Why do these things keep cropping up? The federal government and technology industry want you to believe the threats to ou…