Creating Arbitrary Shellcode In Unicote Expanded Strings
[Abstract]
The paper is intended to be read by the portion of the security community responsible for creating protective mechanisms to guard against “shellcode� type security flaws; the
intention is to remove the perception that Unicode buffer overflows are non exploitable and thereby improve the general state of network security. [...]

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Mark Rasch, 2005-07-11
How much does a security breach actually “cost,” and who pays for it? When the breach involves personal information, like credit card data, the answer is, a lot more than you may think. The problem is that the people who “pay” for the cost of the breach are rarely the ones responsible for [...]

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Dr. Dobb’s Journal December 1999
Modeling security threats
By Bruce Schneier
Bruce is the CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, author of Applied Cryptography, Second Edition (John Wiley & Sons, 1995), and inventor of the Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms. You can contact Bruce at http://www.counterpane.com/.
Few people truly understand computer security, as illustrated by computer-security company marketing literature that [...]

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By Joris Evers
Two serious security flaws in a technology widely used for network authentication could expose a swath of software products to hacker attack, experts have warned.
The flaws could allow an online intruder to crash or gain access to computers running Kerberos, a freely available authentication technology that was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of [...]

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*** What is an exploit ***
An exploit is a computer programm, which circumvent computer security.
There are many ways to exploit security holes. If a computer programmer
make a programming mistake in a computer program, it is sometimes possible to
circumvent security. The coding of such programs, which attack (hack) the
programming mistakes or security holes is the art [...]

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You have lost your root password on your linux box and now you consider formatting
everythign to regain control? Your admin is a moron that leaves the server available
physically for everybody? You wanna test your Linux box? Don’t worry if you have at least
a floppy rescue disk under hand,you can root it )
The problem [...]

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