In Through The Out Door

The SPURS are the WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS once again

Which ISPs Are Spying on You?Just another good reason to use anonymous proxies; remailers, TOR and hushmail…………

Backup using Amazon S3:Learn how to use Amazon’s “i”>S3 to quickly, easily, and cheaply perform off-sitebackups.

Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs?:As a common everyman who needs big, fast, reliable storage without a big budget, I have been following a number of emerging technologies and I think they have finally become usable in combination. Specifically, it appears to me that I can put together the little brother of a $50,000 NAS/SAN solution for under $3,000. Storage experts: please tell me why this is or isn’t feasible. Read on for the details of this cheap storage solution.

An Israeli startup has squeezed a complete hardware firewall into a USB key. The ‘Yoggie Pico’ from Yoggie Systems runs Linux 2.6 along with 13 security applications on a 520MHz PXA270, an Intel processor typically used in high-end smartphones. The Pico works in conjunction with Windows XP or Vista drivers that hijack traffic at network layers 2-3, below the TCP/IP stack, and route it to USB, where the Yoggie analyzes and filters traffic at close-to-100Mbps wireline speeds.

P2P Networks Supplement Botnets:stuckinarut writes “Peer to peer file sharing network popularity is at an all time high, with hundreds of thousands of computers connected to a single P2P network at a given time. These networks are increasingly being used to trick PCs into attacking other machines, experts say…. Computer scientists have previously shown how P2P networks can be subverted so that several connected PCs gang up to attack a single machine, flooding it with enough traffic to make it crash…. Now, security experts are warning that P2P networks are increasingly being used to do just this. “Until January of this year we had never seen a peer-to-peer network subverted and used for an attack,” says Darren Rennick of internet security company Prolexic in an advisory released recently.

Google gears up offline access for Web apps:Google will release Wednesday night a browser extension designed to allow developers to build offline components for Web hosted applications.

Cain & Abel 4.9.3:A password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems.[License: Freeware| Requires: Win All | Size: 5.96 Mb]It will light up many AV…

Interesting Spoofing Attack

Filesystem Encryption Tools for Linux:Crypto filesystems keep your data safe - even if someone steals your computer.Linux offers a number of encrypted filesystem options - each with a different approach to the encryption problem.Encrypted filesystems may be overkill for family photos or your résumé, but they make sense for network-accessible servers that hold sensitive business documents, databases that contain credit-card information, offline backups, and laptops.

May be the first war in cyberspace

The Defense Department reports China is building cyberwarfare units and developing viruses.
Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service

Microsoft promises not to sue Linux peopleLOL !!!

Einstein keeps an eye on agency networksProject Einstein: DHS works to outthink hackers. What am I missing here? Are they kidding?

Find the REAL DIRT on Deepwater here.

The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life OnlineCAN ANYONE SAY OPSEC HERE ???

PC World - The 100 Best Products of 2007

Top 15 free SQL Injection Scanners

“Data storm” blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown

Cisco Router Back Door?