Forum: Miscellaneous Security Discussions

I'm don't usually post CERT advisories, but this one is kinda big. So here it is. In a nutshell your RADIUS culd be susceptable to DoS attacks. ...

downloaded this today and popped it on wkstn. Looks real slick, already like it better than cde. If anyone is interested, it is 1.4 on Solx86....

I came across this story over at neworder. And figured it was newsworthy here. Read More NewOrder

I downloaded Trillian a few days agoe, looked through the files and found the *.ini files that controle the user profile, the encryption if...

Well, it seems in the interests of national security, we are going to lose even more of our privacy. Check...

CNN has an interesting article on firewalls that should give noobs an idea of how they work and what they are. In part: "February 27, 2002...

Here is a list of ports and what the port is used for. echo= 7/tcp systat= 11/tcp chargen= 19/tcp ftp-data= 21/tcp ssh= 22/tcp telnet= 23/tcp...

Kaspersky Labs issued their top lists of viruses that marked the first month of this year. First place was reserved for I-Worm Klez. Read more at...

For those of you that don't know, CERT posts a quarterly summary of everything that they have done in the last three months. The latest was posted...

Does anyone know of any IM security holes that could potentially be a thread to a network? I don't need any flames, yes I have checked google, and...

Ok, im sure that Trillain users are aware that their password is located in a file in their trillain user/global folder called profile.ini and it is...

Read the article here . What do you think? Personally I think it won't do a bit of good because the type of people this is aimed at catching will...

Here's the situation: I am on the receiving end of calls from some unknown type of device that can make my phone ring - or something ring in my room...

Another IE flaw found read more about it here http://www.vnunet.com/News/1129492 The Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert) today released an...

I notice earlier that it took CERT something like 15 days after microsoft posted a patch to send out a message warning about a buffer overflow in IE....

Hello. I am a small-time systems admin at my highschool. I have spend the past year or so trying to teach the other admins (kids and teachers...

http://online.securityfocus.com/news/338 "A quirk in media players from Microsoft and RealNetworks could enable attackers to hijack Web browsers...

I was reading Here and a couple of things jumped out at me.... "We considered adding a keyboard sniffer to log keystrokes so we could tell...

For all you dba types out there, here a break from the usual linux threads. Our dba just got let go. :( so, I'm back at it after a four year...