[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, […]
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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 […]
Some Good Tips to Secure Linux
I came across this while browsing, has some pretty solid stuff, goes deeper than most basic Linux security guides. It has some good sections like this on protection against fork bombs: Fork bombs are programs that keep creating child processes until system resources are all used, they actually aren’t remote exploits because they require a […]
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. […]
BackTrack – A merger between WHAX and Auditor
BackTrack is the result of the merging of two Innovative Penetration Testing live Linux distributions namely Whax and Auditor. Combining the best features from both distributions, and paying special attention to small details, this is probably the best version of either distributions to ever come out. Based on SLAX (Slackware), BackTrack provides user modularity. This […]