Weekend Reads
Quack Hackers
Hoax hacks. Rigged demos of make-believe security holes. Those, it appears, are the real big news that came out of the Black Hat USA security conference earlier this month. Two of the headline-grabbingest claims by independent security researchers at the show have since turned out to be bogus.
One, a reportedly easy-to-exploit security problem in a Cisco firewall appliance, isn't reproducible. The other, an allegedly even-easier-to-exploit hole in Apple's Wi-Fi drivers, didn't actually involve attacking Apple's products after all.
So much for one of IT's last great myths: the honest hacker.
Read the article HERE.
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Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks?
Trusted computing proponents may have found their best argument yet for incorporating specialized security hardware into every computer system.
Device authentication would not have stopped all crimes. For example, there were a number of cases were the individual had valid credentials and was on a company machine but overstepped their authorization. Bill Bosen, founding partner, Trusted Strategies A report published this week by computer firmware developer Phoenix Technologies concluded that the risks posed by the most damaging digital attacks could be eliminated if companies adopted technology to identify users' computers on the network.
Read the article HERE.
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Honeypot Fun
Most of the papers deal with the potential gains a honeypot can give you, and the proper way to monitor a honeypot. Not very many of them deal with the honeypots themselves. Honeypots are a hot topic in the security research community right now. It seems everyone is starting up their own honeypot system. Most of the papers deal with the potential gains a honeypot can give you, and the proper way to monitor a honeypot. Not very many of them deal with the honeypots themselves.
Read the article HERE.
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Firefox 2 Beta 2 Arrives!
Mozilla's latest beta release of the next Firefox browser is fully baked and ready to download. Installation instructions, release notes and the FAQ are available at Mozilla's site.
Read the article HERE.
HERE is the direct link to the Firefox 2 Beta 2 download page.
Hoax hacks. Rigged demos of make-believe security holes. Those, it appears, are the real big news that came out of the Black Hat USA security conference earlier this month. Two of the headline-grabbingest claims by independent security researchers at the show have since turned out to be bogus.
One, a reportedly easy-to-exploit security problem in a Cisco firewall appliance, isn't reproducible. The other, an allegedly even-easier-to-exploit hole in Apple's Wi-Fi drivers, didn't actually involve attacking Apple's products after all.
So much for one of IT's last great myths: the honest hacker.
Read the article HERE.
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Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks?
Trusted computing proponents may have found their best argument yet for incorporating specialized security hardware into every computer system.
Device authentication would not have stopped all crimes. For example, there were a number of cases were the individual had valid credentials and was on a company machine but overstepped their authorization. Bill Bosen, founding partner, Trusted Strategies A report published this week by computer firmware developer Phoenix Technologies concluded that the risks posed by the most damaging digital attacks could be eliminated if companies adopted technology to identify users' computers on the network.
Read the article HERE.
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Honeypot Fun
Most of the papers deal with the potential gains a honeypot can give you, and the proper way to monitor a honeypot. Not very many of them deal with the honeypots themselves. Honeypots are a hot topic in the security research community right now. It seems everyone is starting up their own honeypot system. Most of the papers deal with the potential gains a honeypot can give you, and the proper way to monitor a honeypot. Not very many of them deal with the honeypots themselves.
Read the article HERE.
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Firefox 2 Beta 2 Arrives!
Mozilla's latest beta release of the next Firefox browser is fully baked and ready to download. Installation instructions, release notes and the FAQ are available at Mozilla's site.
Read the article HERE.
HERE is the direct link to the Firefox 2 Beta 2 download page.
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