Category Archives: Security
Why legislative organizations shouldn’t try to write tech law
This is an unfortunately common type of situation – the people making the laws don’t understand the concepts of security or attack, or not well enough to figure out a way to respond to them. Rather than trying to put … Continue reading
Montgomery Wards is hacked – doesn’t tell it’s customers
Basically after following the credit card companies technical instructions, they didn’t bother to follow state or federal laws. Story is here.
OSSEC reviewed
I’ve been running OSSEC for about six weeks now. General thoughts – it’s pretty easy to get up and running. The server client is sitting on my fedora mail/web/firewall/sql server and I have two of the windows client apps sitting … Continue reading
opendns redirecting google lookups?
Hard to tell what they’re doing, but it looks really shady. dig www.google.com @208.67.222.222 ; < > DiG 9.4.2 < > www.google.com @208.67.222.222 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<
Ubuntu Linux Disk Encryption Benchmarks
Introduced in Ubuntu 7.10 was install-time encryption support where using the alternate installer one can fully encrypt their disk in an LVM using dm-crypt. Unfortunately, the Ubiquity installer in Ubuntu 8.04 continues to lack LVM and encryption support, but using … Continue reading
OSSEC
OSSEC is a scalable, multi-platform, open source Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS). It has a powerful correlation and analysis engine, integrating log analysis, file integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, centralized policy enforcement, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. http://www.ossec.net/main/
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.04 was officially released as production code on Friday. I’d already been running beta versions of it on two laptops (or the wife was, I should say) so I felt that I pretty much was ready to take my … Continue reading
Hacker testifies News Corp unit hired him
SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) – A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp (NWSa.N) unit hired him to develop pirating software, but denied using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service. Christopher Tarnovsky … Continue reading
Asus 500g and DD-WRT
I’ve been a big fan of the $9.99 special wireless routers for a while, but I’ve started having problems recently. I’m not sure if it’s because everybody in the neighborhood is buying fios and all the lame actiontek routers are … Continue reading