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Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) Project

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There is a critical need in the law enforcement community to ensure the reliability of computer forensic tools. A capability is required to ensure that forensic software tools consistently produce accurate and objective test results. The goal of the Computer Forensic Tool Testing (CFTT) project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to establish a methodology for testing computer forensic software tools by development of general tool specifications, test procedures, test criteria, test sets, and test hardware.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 27, 2006

Bringing Botnets Out of the Shadows

Nicholas Albright's first foray into some of the darkest alleys of the Internet came in November 2004, shortly after his father committed suicide. About a month following his father's death, Albright discovered that online criminals had broken into his dad's personal computer and programmed it to serve as part of a worldwide, distributed network for storing pirated software and movies.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 22, 2006

Finding Security's Next 'American Idol'

It's like an "American Idol" for security geeks. Students at the Georgia Institute of Technology prep, sweat and show their stuff while a panel of critics decides their fates. But unlike the popular "reality" TV show, judges aren't determining who can best carry a tune. Instead they weigh students' ideas for making information security more user-friendly, with $50,000 -- enough cash to fund a project for 12 months -- hanging in the balance.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 21, 2006

How to Create RFID Access for Your Front Door

There are many uses for RFID such as supply chain management, but access control is one of the most relevant applications for personal use. Many people use RFID access cards to get into buildings, use elevators, or even open the doors to those special penthouse type hotel suites. Setting up your own front door (or any door for that matter) with an RFID enabled access mechanism is pretty easy.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 17, 2006

Researchers Pioneer Digital Fingerprint Forensics To Nab Cyber Thieves

Researchers have demonstrated a new forensics technology designed to help catch cyber thieves and digital pirates. The digital fingerprinting technology, which was developed by academics at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering, is designed to help protect digital assets and identify national security leak sources.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 10, 2006

Malware Honeypot Projects Merge

Looking to streamline the collection of malware samples, two of the biggest honeypot projects—mwcollect and nepenthes—have merged operations.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 24, 2006

Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl) 2.0 release

For those few who don't know yet, Openwall GNU/*/Linux (or Owl) is a security-enhanced operating system with Linux and GNU software as its core, intended as a server platform. After many Owl-current snapshots, Owl 2.0 release is finally out.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 16, 2006

Nmap 4.00 Released

Insecure.Org is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 4.00 from https://nmap.org/ .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 31, 2006

Network Forensic Traffic Reconstruction with Tcpxtract

Today I got a chance to try Nick Harbour's Tcpxtract program. I had heard of it several months ago, but I had trouble compiling it on FreeBSD. Just now I tried the regular ./configure, make, make install routine using version 1.0.1 and had no problems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 04, 2006

Linux Netwosix Creator Discusses 2.0 Vision, Future

The recent announcement of the 2.x branch of Linux Netwosix may prompt LinuxWorld readers to ask why there were two releases--1.3 and 2.0-rc1--of this software within a week. So we contacted its creator, 19-year-old Vincenzo Ciaglia of the University of Salerno, Italy to find the answer to this and other questions.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 03, 2006

Nessus fork emerges

With news settling in that the makers of the network vulnerability scanner Nessus will not open source the next version of the software, the team behind the soon-to-be-renamed GNessUs project is growing fast and attracting attention.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 26, 2005

Web Application Firewall Evaluation Criteria Announced

The Web Application Firewall Evaluation Criteria project announced its first public release. The goal of the project is to develop a testing methodology that can be used by any reasonably skilled technician to independently assess quality of a web application firewall.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 10, 2005

French military body to install Linux cluster

An agency of the French Ministry of Defence is planning to install a high-performance Linux cluster for technical and scientific work. The Technical Establishment of Bourges (ETBS), which tests and manufactures armaments, has issued a tender for the supply of a 64-bit Linux cluster, according to a document on an EU website. The deadline of the tender was reached on Thursday but it was unclear from the tender document when the ETBS plans to start implementing the cluster.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 30, 2005

Rule Set Based Access Control 1.2.5 Available

RSBAC is a flexible, powerful and fast open source access control framework for current Linux kernels. From a practical standpoint, it allows possibilities such as full fine grained control over objects, memory execution prevention, real time integrated virus detection and more.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2005

Auditor: The security tool collection

The Auditor security collection is a GPL-licensed live CD based on Knoppix, with more than 300 security software tools. Auditor gives you easy access to a broad range of tools in almost no time.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 23, 2005

Prelude Releases 0.9 of Hybrid IDS Framework

The Prelude Project has released the 0.9 version of their Hybrid IDS Framework. Which represents over seven years of development. It supports over 40 different types of devices and log types. As well as other security software such as Snort and Samhain offering support for reporting to Prelude. Many other advancements have been made to the Prelude Framework. Including the all new Prewikka front-end for correlation and monitoing of alerts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 21, 2005

Red Hat Unveils IT Courses

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the Enterprise, announced the addition of Institute of Advanced Computing Management (IACM) to their Authorised Training Partner Network, which extends across India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Red Hat's complete range of Training and Certification programs will now be available at IACM. Red Hat offers the highest quality of Linux and Open Source training and certification. Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) are highly valued among professionals as they are an actual measure of performance tested through live implementation. Red Hat certified Linux professionals are considered to be world class.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 07, 2005

OpenSSH update fixes recent vulnerabilities

The first fix prevents "GatewayPorts" from being "incorrectly activated for dynamic ('-D') port forwardings when no listen address was explicitly specified," according to the changelog. The update also prevents GSSAPI credentials being "delegated to users who log in with methods other than GSSAPI authentication (e.g. public key) when the client requests it." The update also includes a host of bug fixes, improvements and added features according to the announcement.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 05, 2005

Is Firefox's Notification Lag Necessary?

In a previous post about Firefox I proposed that the lack of automatic deployment of Firefox software updates is a disservice to the vast majority of Firefox users who may not bother to check in for updates. Today I found out another interesting tidbit: the Mozilla Foundation doesn't turn on Firefox's automatic notification feature for several hours after a new Firefox version is available.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 11, 2005

Car Whisperer

The carwhisperer project intends to sensibilise manufacturers of carkits and other Bluetooth appliances without display and keyboard for the possible security threat evolving from the use of standard passkeys. A Bluetooth passkey is used within the pairing process that takes place, when two Bluetooth enabled devices connect for the first time. Besides other public data, the passkey is a secret parameter used in the process that generates and exchanges the so-called link key. In Bluetooth communication scenarios the link key is used for authentication and encryption of the information that is exchanged between the counterparts of the communication.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 03, 2005

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