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Spam blacklist bids top $1m

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:18:06 +0000

LinuxSecurity.com: ONE of the largest spam blacklists in the world, developed in Australia, is up for sale and the creator has already received offers of more than $1million.

'Mafiaboy': Cloud Computing Will Cause Internet Security Meltdown

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:39:49 +0000

LinuxSecurity.com: Reformed black-hat hacker Michael Calce, better known as the 15-year-old "mafiaboy" who, in 2000, took down Websites CNN, Yahoo, E*Trade, Dell, Amazon, and eBay, says widespread adoption of cloud computing is going to make the Internet only more of a hacker haven.

Hacker attack techniques and tactics: Understanding hacking strategies

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:34:31 +0000

LinuxSecurity.com: This tutorial on hacker attack techniques and tactics will provide insight inside the mind of a hacker and help you to understand a malicious attacker's motives. You will receive advice on how hackers target specific information and what polices and procedures every organization should have in place to protect sensitive data.

Swedish company to buy Pirate Bay

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:32:30 +0000

LinuxSecurity.com: The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing site entangled in a court case over pirated music, will be bought by a Swedish software company.

Swatting phreaker swatted and heading to jail

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:19:43 +0000

LinuxSecurity.com: In the US a 19-year-old phreaker (or phone phreak) has been sentenced to more than eleven years in prison because he placed numerous emergency calls resulting in the dispatch of special police units or SWAT teams (Special Weapons and Tactics). The SWAT teams arrived at the locations from which the calls were placed only to find sleeping families. Such incidents are increasingly common in the US, giving rise to the term swatting.

Feds arrest man allegedly behind DDoS attacks against Rolling Stone

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:14:55 +0000

LinuxSecurity.com: A Pennsylvania man has been charged with allegedly launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against at least nine Web sites, including Rolling Stone magazine's site, which was attacked multiple times for nearly a year.

SuSE: IBM Java 6 (SUSE-SA:2009:036)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:56:00 +0000

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Gentoo: ModSecurity Denial of Service

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:38:00 +0000

LinuxSecurity.com: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Two vulnerabilities in ModSecurity might lead to a Denial of Service.

Gentoo: libwmf User-assisted execution of arbitrary

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:37:00 +0000

LinuxSecurity.com: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D libwmf bundles an old GD version which contains a "use-after-free" vulnerability.

Ubuntu: Perl vulnerability

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:31:00 +0000

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that the Compress::Raw::Zlib Perl module incorrectly handled certain zlib compressed streams. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted compressed stream or file, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service.

Review: Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:25:00 +0000

LinuxSecurity.com: If I ask "How much do you know about Google?" You may not take even a second to respond. But if I may ask "How much does Google know about you"? You may instantly reply "Wait... what!? Do they!?" The book "Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You" by Greg Conti (Computer Science Professor at West Point) is the first book to reveal how Google's vast information stockpiles could be used against you or your business - and what you can do to protect yourself.

A Secure Nagios Server

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:00:00 +0000

LinuxSecurity.com: Nagios is a monitoring software designed to let you know about problems on your hosts and networks quickly. You can configure it to be used on any network. Setting up a Nagios server on any Linux distribution is a very quick process however to make it a secure setup it takes some work. This article will not show you how to install Nagios since there are tons of them out there but it will show you in detail ways to improve your Nagios security.