In Through The Out Door

Another twist in Wi-Fi hijack tale

U.S. Deploys First e-Passport Readers:

RFID: The Next Anti-Piracy Contestant?:Embedded radio transmitter to provide security. This past week disc manufacturer U-tech and its RFID partner IPICO announced production plans for the latest anti-piracy gambit. The companies will market DVDs embedded with radio transmitter chips to allow tracking and prevent copying and piracy. ..

VMware Server for Linux for Free:I will turn down free beer software in favor of freedom software when both exist. If you don't know the difference, that's OK. You cannot see the source code for the video drivers from ATI, for example. You can get them for free but they are not freed. The same with Adobe Acrobat Reader and plugins for the Firefox web browser.

Brief: Exploit released for unpatched ActiveX flaw:

Exploit released for unpatched ActiveX flaw

News: Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks?:Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks?

Infocus: Analyzing malicious SSH login attempts:Malicious SSH login attempts have been appearing in some administrators’ logs for several years. This article revisits the use of honeypots to analyze malicious SSH login attempts and see what can be learned about this activity. The article then offers recommendations on how to secure one’s system against these attacks.

Infocus: Beginner’s guide to wireless auditing:

Beginner’s guide to wireless auditing

Cybercrime Becoming More Organized:Cyberscams are increasingly being committed by organized-crime syndicates out to profit from sophisticated ruses rather than hackers keen to make an online name for themselves, according to a top U.S. official.

Hackers Up The Ante With Targeted Attacks:Targeted attacks represent the biggest IT security threat to companies, a senior Gartner analyst warned today.

Cisco Exec:
Cisco exec: Windows Vista is scary

LDAP Authentication In Linux:This howto will show you how to store your users in LDAP and authenticate some of the services against it. It will not show how to install particular packages, as it is distribution/system dependant, instead it will focus on pure configuration of all componenets needed to have LDAP authentication/storage of users. The howto assumes that you are migrating from a regular passwd/shadow authentication, but it is also suitable for people who do it from scratch.

launchd in Depth:Nice article about launchd.“Fast forward several years and Apple is now the highest volume UNIX vendor in the world. Furthermore the base of Mac OS X is open source and Apple uses many OSS projects in Darwin. Apple also has created projects and turned them out into the OSS world. (I’m well aware of the issues that some in the community have with Apple’s OSS participation level, it’s just not the focus of this article.) Recently Apple has loosed a new beast onto the world.

Brief: DHS releases report on Cyber Storm exercise:

DHS releases report on Cyber Storm exercise

News: Web flaws race ahead in 2006:

Web flaws race ahead in 2006

Securing Your Server With A Host-based IDS (20 Sep 2006):This article shows how to install and run OSSEC HIDS, an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, rootkit detection, time-based alerting and active response. It helps you detect attacks, software misuse, policy violations and other forms of inappropriate activities.

UNIX productivity tips in an office setting:The language of the UNIX command line is notoriously versatile: With a panorama of small tools and utilities and a shell to combine and execute them, you can specify many precise and complex tasks. Learn how to use techniques unique to UNIX in an office setting, which become a powerful ally toward increasing your productivity.

The men behind ettercapNG

Et Tu, Wi-Fi Alliance?