[ad] The scariest type of all, hardware vulnerabilities. Security guru and creator of OpenBSD Theo de Raadt recently announced he had found some fairly serious bugs in the hardware architecture of Intel Core 2 Duo processors. He goes as far as saying avoid buying a C2D processor until these problems are fixed. A prominent software […]
UNIX Hacking
Sun Solaris 10 – Free Offer – Media DVD
[ad] It’s good to have a variety of Operating Systems in your hacking lab at home, it helps you get familiar with them..as to break things, you have to know how they work first. So get to know Solaris, they have some pretty neat security related software inside their OS and generally are pretty good […]
0-day Vulnerability Effects Solaris – Disable Telnet NOW!
[ad] Solaris is pwned by a similar vulnerability to one discovered on AIX systems in 1994. Yes people that’s 13 years ago…and Sun are still vulnerable, as reported by SANS. The following will give you root on a lot of Solaris systems:
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Cool eh? The Internet Storm Center is urging system administrators to disable […]
Sealing Wafter – Defend Against OS Fingerprinting for OpenBSD
[ad] One way to defend against OS fingerprinting from tools such as nmap, queso, p0f, xprobe etc is to change the metrics that they base their analysis on. One way to do this with OpenBSD is to use Sealing Wafter. Goals of Sealing Wafter: 1. To reduce OS detection based on well known fingerprints network […]
Post-Mortem Data Destruction
[ad] 1. Introduction This article describes and partly implements a method to delete or re-locate, potentially sensitive and / or incriminating information from your UNIX flavoured machine, after the sad event of your death. An older version of this article has been published before, yet it has since disappeared from the Internet and the Google […]