LinuxSecurity Contributor - Benjamin D. Thomas
Benjamin D. Thomas
Articles From Benjamin D. Thomas
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Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems
21 April 2006
Wireless has opened a new and exciting world for many of us. Its technology is advancing and changin
Wireless Security
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Lax approach to mobile security
21 April 2006
Street-wise? When you're out in public places, there are certain things to do for reasons of persona
General Security
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We're winning the war against hackers
21 April 2006
Despite the apparent growth in security incidents and hacker attacks over recent years, a clear majo
General Security
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Novell pays $72m to acquire e-Security
20 April 2006
Novell yesterday announced that it has paid $72m to acquire e-Security, a developer of real-time eve
General Security
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Image stealing by phishers
20 April 2006
Lazy phishers are often simply making a copy of the original bank site with some malicious modificat
General Security
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There Is No Open Source Community
20 April 2006
Conventional wisdom says that powerful individuals drive open source by working against the grain to
Forums
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Stop the bots
19 April 2006
I found the opening scene to the 1991 movie sequel, Terminator 2, to be one of the most powerful Sci
General Security
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DNS Amplification Attacks
19 April 2006
This paper outlines a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack which abuses open recursive
Domai
Network Security
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Future of NIST
19 April 2006
Although it's less well known than some of the standards and models in place at many businesses toda
Government
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Cracking WEP
19 April 2006
These are my experiences in attempting to crack WEP over 802.11b. Keep in mind it is unethical and m
Wireless Security
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CNet Security Podcast
19 April 2006
Backdoors, pharming, phishing, rootkits, viruses, worms. Feeling vulnerable? CNET News.com's Joris E
Security Sources
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Torvalds creates patch for cross-platform virus
19 April 2006
Linus Torvalds has had an opportunity to examine the testing and analysis by Hans-Werner Hilse which
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