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Need an in-depth introduction to a new security topic? Our features articles will bring up up-to-date on everything from buffer overflows to SE Linux policy development.
As the variety of attacks and threats grow, you need to be prepared. In this HOWTO, get a feeling for the Fork Bombing Attack, what it is, how it works, where it comes from, how to deal with it and more.
Learning a new language cannot be complete without a few 'real world'
examples. 'Hello world!'s and fibonacci sequences are always nice as
an introduction to certain aspects of programming, but soon or later
you crave something meatier to chew on. 'Ruby by Example: Concepts
and Code' by Kevin C. Baird provides a wealth of knowledge via general
to specialized examples of the dynamic object oriented programming
language, Ruby. Want to build an mp3 playlist processor? How about
parse out secret codes from 'Moby Dick'? Read on!
As a bonus to this week’s review of “Ruby By Example,” I'd like to give an applied security related example of Ruby by walking you through a chunk of code in the Metasploit Open Source Exploit Framework (www.metasploit.com). Metasploit is written entirely in Ruby and
has gained critical acclaim as the standard for open source exploit frameworks and should be a vital tool in any security guru's box.
In a perfect world, a book like this wouldn't be necessary anymore, except for the new entries into security. Businesses and organizations would have all gotten the point by now. And yet, gaps in security, flaws in policy and general complacency have made an overview of security just as important today as it was five years ago. In a review of this second edition of Computer Security Basics, however, Robert Slade sums up a resource that could have had potential, but instead, fails to live up to its predecessor.
Everybody, from seasoned network administrators to people that just use the Internet to check the TV listings, will experience network problems at some point. Despite their varied technical knowledge, there is one tool that everybody can use: Wireshark. What's the quickest way to learn this fantastic tool? Read Practical Packet Analysis, by Chris Sanders, which provides all the basic information anybody needs to start troubleshooting their network.
