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| NewsForge: Nine principles of security architecture |
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NewsForge: Nine principles of security architecture
Bruce
Byfield
" Security architecture
is a new concept to many computer users.
Users are aware of security threats such as viruses, worms, spyware,
and other malware. They have heard of, and most use, anti-virus
programs and firewalls. Many use intrusion detection. Architectural
security, though, remains a mystery to most computer users". The truth
is, anti-virus software, firewalls, and intrusion detection are only
the surface of security..."
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| Linux Advisory Watch - March 25, 2005 |
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Linux Advisory Watch - March 25, 2005 By: Benjamin D. Thomas This week, advisories were released for cyrus-imapd, curl, xloadimage, xli, PERL, slypheed, libgal2, libsoup, evolution, gimp, procps, lsof, lockdev, xloadimage, mailman, boost, kdelibs, firefox, thunderbird, mozilla, devhelp, epiphany, rxvt, LTris, MySQL, ethereal, ipsec-tools, and ImageMagick. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, Genotoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE. Read more
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Posted by admin on Monday, March 28 @ 20:18:05 EST (24479 reads)
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| Tips for when hackers strike |
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Tips for when hackers strike By: Brice Burgess Last week I was faced with the situation every user and administrator dreads -- my Web server was hacked. Here's hoping you can use my experience as a guide to investigating your own compromised server, if and when the time comes. The nightmare started when I returned to my office to discover 17 missed calls on my cell phone. A moment later, the phone rang again. A frantic customer complained of "eyes" on his Web site. I visit the site, and, lo and behold, discovered it proclaiming being "owned" by a hacking group. Upon further investigation, I discovered all the other Web sites on the Debian-based server had been defaced. Read more
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Posted by admin on Monday, March 28 @ 20:14:02 EST (22344 reads)
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