[ad] Now after the huge Sony BMG Rootkit fiasco, this has become quite a hot topic, how far can vendors go to enforce their ‘Digital Rights Management’ (or Digital Restrictions Management as we like to call it), can they install a rootkit on your machine and hook into your OS? Can they take over your […]
Archives for February 2006
RainbowCrack & How To Use Rainbow Crack With Rainbow Tables
This article is about RainbowCrack & How to use Rainbow Crack with Rainbow Tables, this includes how to generate rainbow tables, where to download them and what tools to use. RainbowCrack & How To Use Rainbow Crack? RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin’s faster time-memory trade-off technique. In 1980 Martin Hellman described […]
Malware Honeypot Projects Merge – mwcollect and nepenthes
[ad] Looking to streamline the collection of malware samples, two of the biggest honeypot projects mwcollect and nepenthes have merged operations. The two projects, which passively trap viruses, spyware and other forms of malicious software by emulating known vulnerabilities, will combine operations to develop a single malware collection tool, according to an announcement my mwcollect […]
Firefox Confuses UK Government Piracy Laws
The UK government stated: If Mozilla permit the sale of copied versions of its software, it makes it virtually impossible for us, from a practical point of view, to enforce UK anti-piracy legislation It seems they really don’t understand the whole open source thing do they? You can’t pirate open source software, you can however […]
Free Prep Material for LPI Linux Certification (LPI 201 and 202)
[ad] Here’s a series of well written IBM Linux tutorials to help you learn Linux fundamentals and prepare for system administrator certification. The LPI prep tutorials help you prepare for the topics in LPI exam 201 and the topics in LPI exam 202. You can find more about the certification at the Linux Professional Institute. […]