[ad] This is the biggest load of shite I’ve read this year I think. Rootkits are becoming more prevalent and difficult to detect, and security vendor McAfee says the blame falls squarely on the open source community. In its “Rootkits” report being published today, McAfee says the number of rootkits it has collected as malware […]
Archives for May 2006
I’m gonna h4x0r j00r Ferrari
[ad] Hacking cars, what next? I have fears for the IPv6 generation (if it every happens), when every toaster and light bulb has an IP address, yeah…I’m gonna hack your house then and make your lights blink. High-tech thieves are becoming increasingly savvy when it comes to stealing automobiles equipped with keyless entry and ignition […]
The Next 50 Years of Computer Security
[ad] There’s an interesting audio file about the next 50 years of computer security, it’s from a talk Alan Coxa a fellow at Red Hat Linux gave recently at the European OSCON. It talks about the implementations of modularity, trusted computing hardware (we are already seing this in part, hardware anti-virus implementations and DRM to […]
MORE Sendmail Problems – Signal Handling Vulnerability
[ad] 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, […]
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 […]