Vista more secure than Mac OSX and Linux?

Judging by figures alone, Vista is more secure than Mac OSX and Linux? I somehow find this a rather strange claim, I guess these things are always subjective.
Most numbers can be moulded into any shape you want, and can show any result you like.

According to the numbers given in a new report from Microsoft, Windows [...]

Some Guidelines on How to Secure your Ubuntu Installation

Since Ubuntu is getting so fantastically popular nowadays I thought this might be useful to some of you.
I personally think Ubuntu is great, the features, ease of installation, stability and especially the work they have done on things like wireless drivers make it a breeze to get up and running.
It is a pretty secure distro [...]

stealth techniques - syn

Or half-open scanning technique is the first of three to come series about stealth scanning… The other two are Xmas/Fin/Null and idle/zombie scan techniques…
Intro
This is a series of three to come articles about stealth scanning, everything that I am going to present is hping oriented so if you want to learn this techniques you’d better [...]

Ubuntu Ultimate Edition is Cool

Basically Ubuntu Ultimate Edition is Ubuntu Edgy Eft with a whole lot of software pre-added.
Sadly the author had to removed Java, Flash and Acrobat reader due to licensing agreements. But don’t worry as there is a custom repository in the release which includes all of these and much more.

SMP Support (dual core CPUS) / works [...]

BackTrack v2.0 - Hackers LiveCD Finally Released

BackTrack is the result of the merging of the two innovative penetration testing live linux distributions Auditor security collection and Whax. By combining the best features from both distributions and putting continous development energy, the most complete and finest security testing live distro was born: BackTrack

BackTrack v.2.0 is finally released, it’s been a long wait [...]

Hacking your $60 Router into a $600 Router

This is a bit of hacking in the original sense of the word, taking a $60 router and giving it the capabilities of something costing in the hundreds or thousands (enterprise level).

Of all the great DIY projects at this year’s Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old [...]

Installing Nessus on Debian-based OSs like Ubuntu

With this simple tutorial I will explain how to install Nessus client (nessus) and Nessus Daemon (nessusd) and properly register it, so you don’t end up with the limitations of a non-registered version of the vulnerability scanner.
Installing:
I personally use apt-, however, you may choose any other package manager.
apt-get install nessus nessusd -y
This will install the [...]

OSSEC HIDS - Open Source Host-based Intrusion System

OSSEC HIDS is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, rootkit detection, time-based alerting and active response.

It runs on most operating systems, including Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows.
This is the first version offering native support for Windows (XP/2000/2003). It includes as well a new set of log analysis [...]

MORE Sendmail Problems - Signal Handling Vulnerability

OH MY GOD, NOT ANOTHER SENDMAIL FLAW?
What’s that? Yah number 1001010102121.

Recently, Mark Dowd of ISS discovered a signal handling vulnerability in Sendmail. We don’t see major bugs in software that’s as popular as Sendmail very often (at least, in the Unix world anyways), and that’s probably a good thing. According to sendmail.com, Sendmail still handles [...]

SecureDVD - Multiboot Live Security Distro’s

SecureDVD is a DVD with the 10 Best Security related Live CD’s.
Yes that’s right, they authored this DVD based on the recommendations made by Darknet!

Now you can have all your favorite CDs ‘compiled’ into a single DVD. I love this idea.
SecureDVD is available to download, but due to it’s size, only in BitTorrent. You can [...]


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