Forum: Miscellaneous Security Discussions

This document is geared towards those individuals who desire to use their talents for the wrong reasons. Hopefully this document will you lead in...

Here's a short intro to the idea of social engineering. Criticism is welcome....

Here are two interesting articals that I found while I was looking for something else. They give some predictions on how the security world will look...

Greetings all, I thought I'd ask the question here as I came across the subject item on a web search for 'security' related items a few months...

Yet again! Full Disclosure is the place to get the latest vulnerability announcements!

While digging through some of the piles of docs that I have, I cam across a template that I used to develop my own incident response form. I thought...

Just yesterday I tried out what will likely remain one of my favorite tools; URL=http://www.winternals.com]ERD Commander 2003. It all began with a...

Lat year has probably seen the worst outbreak of email viruses trojans...... The year alsop witnesses a massive increase in spam mail..........

Hi, I am sure that some of you will have seen me suggest reporting being hacked to the Authorities. I have generally made this suggestion to...

here's another valentines special. An email that says click here then infects you...the usual but its fairly well disected. again this only goes...

Was surfing the net and I had come across this software program. I believe it will be useful to alot of people. http://www.winpatrol.com/

I received the following off the Full Disclosure list. Makes me wonder if a worm or deliberate attack is the final cause. You can find the DOE...

Well, Mark it in your calendars. I have to admit never hearing about this until recently seeing it mentioned in a mailing list today. Apparently the...

Hello All, Working on a project where i have to set up a VPN using L2TP/IPSec. It will mainly be used for within the United States, but I have...

About ten minutes ago our firewall went nuts dropping ICMP traffic from all over the place. Now we get pinged from time to time, but nothing like...

I pose a question to all. We are all conversing on AO, discussing the latest patches and techniques for protecting our networks and machines. ...

Think AnonX really works? While the server is off US terroritory, I wonder if Wasicek could be served with a warrant obstructing justice if he...

Technically, this is an OS issue but I know that *many* folks use Linux to run IDS software such as SNORT so I decided to post a link here too. ...

I went to the site today and saw this: What I find interesting is that they lost connectivity and evidentally were unaware or who knows what....

Can somebody know computer security good without hacking practice?I think, how many of the peole here are hackers?