Mark Cox, director of Red Hat’s security response team has been tracking how the Red Hat Security Response Team first hears about a vulnerability. From Linux.com, other interesting stats include a “In the last year, we managed a 98% response within one business day,” for answering user questions and concerns, and of the vulnerabilities they [...]
Category Archives: Security
Undermining GPS
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Looks like the data that’s beamed to your gps everyday via RDS-TMC is easily undermined. I can’t really figure out why someone would want to cause a traffic jam, but then I never could figure out why people made computer viruses in the early days either.
Top Secret: We’re Wiretapping You
Monday, March 5, 2007
The title and blurb below were just too good to pass up, plus they managed to mention the movie Brazil. I’m no conspiracy-nut, quite the opposite; I’m actually crying inside at how bad our federal agencies are at keeping secrets. It could be a scene from Kafka or Brazil. Imagine a government agency, in a [...]
Nuclear Weapons Design Selected
Friday, March 2, 2007
The Bush administration has taken steps towards building the first new nuclear weapon since the end of the Cold War. Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, the government’s two premier nuclear weapons labs have been developing competing designs. Lawrence Livermore’s design is based on a warhead actually tested in the 1980s. Los Alamos’ design is based [...]
drivesnapshot.de
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Windows Disk Imaging I’m no authority when it comes to disk imaging and Microsoft’s products. That is not to say that it isn’t needed, only that I haven’t used a Microsoft product in a serious enough environment to need to do that. Mainly I backup files and directories that I think are important and leave [...]
HD-DVD / Blueray Encryption Explained
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Decrypting the movie industry’s latest content has been pretty popular lately. What does it all mean? Has HD-DVD encryption truly been broken? It can be a difficult subject to grok and it’s rare to find someone who can sum up the situation so succinctly. In Freedom to Tinker’s latest post J. Alex Halderman does just [...]
Beware the Metasploit cometh
Monday, October 2, 2006
Invaluable resource for security experts. “Metasploit Framework is basically an assault weapon. It comes with pre-packaged exploits that are known to work against specific target platforms, and matching payloads. The exploits take advantage of a vulnerability and the payload determines what actions to take after the exploit has been executed.
The Fungus Among Us
Sunday, July 20, 2003
The Register (sqwak) just published an article to the web that raises some interesting points. Like, why do I feel like I’m naked when I’m surfing online in public? Secondly, is nothing sacred? Accessing the Internet through a public computer is now akin to promiscuous sex. Every thing looks safe enough and I’m sure Kinko’s [...]