[ad] Port Knocking came about in around 2003, but it has various weaknesses. There are plenty of implentations though (some quite advanced). Most of the problems are fixed however by fwknop! fwknop stands for the “FireWall KNock OPerator”, and implements an authorization scheme called Single Packet Authorization (SPA). This method of authorization is based around […]
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Vista more secure than Mac OSX and Linux?
[ad] 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 […]
Some Guidelines on How to Secure your Ubuntu Installation
[ad] 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 […]
stealth techniques – syn
[ad] 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 […]
Ubuntu Ultimate Edition is Cool
[ad] 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 […]