Forum: Miscellaneous Security Discussions

I know this seems a bit lengthy, but I thought some of you guys may be interested in this. As much hype as you hear about each and every type of...

I don't use Apache, but I know many of you are using it in your shops. You can find it on Security Focus here . Now would probably be a good time...

Hello, My friends and I were messing around one night with some DOS net programs and something that cought my eye was the "ping" programs...

Hi All Just wanted to ask if any one knows of a security/hacking discussion group around the Manchester, England area which may be looking for...

SpyBot-S&D 1.0 is alledgedly better then the well known AdAware. I will download it and give you my appreciation! If you want to give it a try,...

I found this article while perusing the web this afernoon. Please note that the link is to a .pdf file, so you will need the adobe acrobat reader to...

I was curious to know if anyone has used or know of a product like Disk Checker 2000 that will identify all bad sectors on a hard drive by location,...

I just realized this was covered in the weeks' security news by xmaddness, but a lot of people may have missed it like I did. Apologies to...

While doing a little research in the DoS/DDoS department,I came across some interesting material.It gives a description of many tools used for...

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How can I send custom TCP/UDP/ICMP packets? Windows XP is vulnerable to certain packets sent to the UPNP ports 1900 and 5000 I believe. If...

This article (NetworkWorldFusion) reports that the Pentagon has prohibited the use of most wireless applications, citing security reasons.

Do criminal(black-hat) hackers serve a useful purpose?It seems to me that a lot of "black hats" try to justify their actions by saying something...

I was out looking for an ASP tutorial, found this page. Didn't quite seem to belong in the tutorial section, so here should do, transfer if...

I could not find this posted anywhere... The following text was taken from an article in W2K news (www.w2knews.com) Co-Logic Security, a small...

This is one of those, "What would you do if...?" scenarios. Here's the situation. I'm currently enrolled in a series of courses for technical...

Sounds like a pretty big breakthrough in security.Check it out. http://www.symantec.com/press/2002/n020702.html

Microsoft is warning system administrators Thursday morning that a new vulnerability is lurking in a FrontPage extention tool known as a SmartHTML...

Hello, I was browsing about and I stumbled upon this site. It has about 14 tests that you can perform on your system to see just how invisible you...