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"Called the Security Rollup Package, the bundle of fixes is the first of more to come from the Redmond, Washington software maker as part of a new...

This was posted to bugtraq by Hans Somers on Jan 30th: ===BEGIN POST=== Long path exploit on NTFS ===================== The filesystem NTFS...

Passive Aggressive! Here are a nice tool for doing 'passive fingerprinting' and remote os identifying. I tried to dl it but had no luck so I can't...

Yeah right! Actually it's a load of ****, it didn't even work on any of my computers. "Man, am I stuid", I thought to myself after not getting it to...

Most of us despise winmodems. I know I do. It is common knowledge that winmodems make life hell in a linux system. especially on a laptop where the...

Yeah.. I think it would be fun if AO had some White Hat War games. Setup some severs.... fisrt one to infilrate wins. I think it would be fun. Thats...

hi peoples, just did a netstat on my win '95 box and was surprised to see the amount of ports open, there were some really weird ones too. there...

It's no surprise with the advent of spyware into programs these days, and it seems more and more have it. Spyware, by definition, is embedded into...

I am writing a c++ program that connects two computers over the net and makes them appear to be on a lan. Basically a stripped-down vpn. I was...

I've heard a lot about firewalls keeping ports closed but I dont seem to understand how my computer is at risk.m1823@hotmail.com :idea:

Im wondering if anyone out there can clear something up for me. Im struggling with coming to terms with the difference with RF encapsulation...

haven't moved to this yet on some routers in branch office. Checked cisco website, but anyone know of issues in this release. Series 3600 routers...

we all know it is a pain in the ass to have to upgrade our linux systems. I am sure there are other automated patching programs for some distro's...

I was wondering if anybody could tell me a good free Anti-Crash progam is that i can use longer then 30days and one that works i knew of many that...

Read the article regarding 'Morpheus/Kazaa' and wondered about the security of Audio Galaxy. (Apparently not secure; as it did include spyware by...

I ordered the trial version of Microsoft's ISA server. Part of their new .NET architecture -- Internet Security Architecture....it's supposedly some...

Hi folks! Just tought to remind you about my updated security/privacy pages. They are focused mainly on Windows OS and internet security issues....