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These are portraits Marcus Ranum took at the first ever computer security summit, held at Bill Cheswick's house in the summer of 1998, I believe. Ever wonder what Dan Farmer or Wietse Venema look like? Marcus adds, "Due to unfortunate lack . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 09, 2001

Survey: CIOs not worried about security

Although U.S. companies lose billions of dollars every year as a result of cybercrimes committed by internal and external hackers, more than 90% of CIOs polled in a recent survey said they have confidence in their company's network security. According to . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 04, 2001

CERT warns of looming DDoS attacks

In its clearest signal yet that it may be bracing for a massive attack, computer network security group CERT issued an advisory today asking system administrators to prepare systems to block denial of service attacks. The advisory, titled DenialofService Vulnerabilities in . . .

Anthony Pell
Dec 01, 2000

CERT: Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP Stacks

A variety of denial-of-service vulnerabilities has been explored and documented by BindView's RAZOR Security Team. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to consume limited resources on victim machines. BindView's RAZOR Security Team has referred to these vulnerabilities as Naptha vulnerabilities. Denial-of-service attacks . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 30, 2000

Honeynet Project's 'honey pot' a sweet success in trapping hacker attacks

During just one month of monitoring, the Honeynet team's "honey pot," which poses as a real network to attract hackers, had been scanned by hundreds of unique IP addresses looking for two particular ports: UDP (User Datagram Protocol) port 137, used . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 27, 2000

Real hackers go to Usenix

Tired of conferences not living up to your expectations? Then you haven't been to Usenix. In this month's Wizard's Guide to Security, Carole Fennelly reports that Usenix's recent security conference offered interesting and accessible talks -- and a who's who of . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 21, 2000

Multiple Denial-of-Service Problems in ISC BIND

Several security vulnerabilities have been found in the latest version of BIND. CERT has now issued an advisory outlining those vulnerabilities and how to resolve them. "The CERT Coordination Center has recently learned of two serious denial-of-service vulnerabilities in the Internet . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 14, 2000

Warner Losh resigns as FreeBSD security officer

Kris Kennaway succeeds Warner Losh as FreeBSD security officer. " I am resigning as FreeBSD's Security Officer. Over the past several years I have enjoyed watching FreeBSD's security improve. The change in attitude towards security issues of FreeBSD has . . .

Anthony Pell
Nov 09, 2000

Security dominates agenda at federal Linux conference

Security was a hot topic at Monday's first-ever federal Linux user's conference. The news that Microsoft Corp.'s network had been breached and that hackers had gained access to source code underscores the need for effective security systems to protect large institutions . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 31, 2000

Presentations from SANS Network Security 2000

Now you can download some late arriving presentations from SANS Network Security 2000 last October 15 - 22 in Monterey. Just click on the title of the presentation you're interested in to access the PDF file. Brief session descriptions are provided . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 30, 2000

BSDCon BSD System Security tutorial

This year's BSDCon is being held at the Monterey Hyatt, in Monterey Ca. The first tutorial was a two-day tutorial covering BSD System Security. For the most part the classes are intensive and there was a lot of ground to cover. . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 19, 2000

EPIC/GILC Urge Europe Over Cybercrime Treaty

Members of the Members of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC) will today urge the Council of Europe to reconsider a draft treaty on cybercrime. The international coalition of civil liberties and human rights organizations, which includes the Electronic Privacy Information . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 19, 2000

Expert Predictions for Security Trends in 2001

Security Trends for 2001 - authoritative predictions from three sources. This PDF file contains comments from Alan Paller, Marcus Ranum, and others on the security trends we can expect to see in the coming year.

Anthony Pell
Oct 18, 2000

Hacker elected to ICANN board

In November, the ultimate ICANN outsider will become one of its ultimate insiders. When Andy Mueller-Maguhn of Germany takes his seat on the ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) board, he says he'll start tearing down the Internet governing . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 17, 2000

BSDCon's BSD System Security tutorial

The topics covered where pretty comprehensive. Alan started with an outline of what is computer crime and then ended up with a quick guide to the latest script kiddie software. This, believe it or not, included running Nessus (a new script . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 17, 2000

Andy Mueller-Maguhn elected to ICANN board

The first open balloting of board members to the non-profit group overseeing the Internet's name and address system led on Tuesday to the election of five regional directors, including a German hacker. The five new grass-roots members, each representing a major . . .

Anthony Pell
Oct 11, 2000

The Big RSA Patent Expiration Party

The cryptorights folks are holding a party in San Francisco, California on September 21st." The last of the Big Crypto Patents --the RSA algorithm-- will officially expire and enter the Public Domain on 20 September 2000 (at midnight local time), two . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 18, 2000

Palante's DEFCON 8 CTF server

The system had the same account and password as last year. There was a trivial vulnerable program in the home directory, resulting in a root shell. The kernel had been modified to include a form of access control called DTE which . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 09, 2000

DefCon 8 / Las Vegas Coverage

Marc Blumenauer writes, "till today I did not find any useful information about the past DefCon VIII. I was there, and therefore I decided to write my own review and published exclusive images (256!) on my www site. please feel free . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 07, 2000

GOP 's computer security reality

The secret service won't be the only high-profile security group in Philadelphia at the Republican National Convention. A computer security organization will sound the alarm over the increasing vulnerability of America's network-based society on Wednesday. . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 03, 2000

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