By Joris Evers, CNET News.com
Internet service providers face mounting pressure to keep their networks free of pests–not only for the benefit of their customers, but also for the good of the Internet in general.
In the next few months, ISPs in the United States will begin receiving reports on the zombies, or PCs [...]
Reuters
Published on ZDNet News: July 19, 2005, 4:27 AM PT
Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it will slash its work force by 14,500 jobs, or about 10 percent, the biggest move yet by new Chief Executive Mark Hurd as he seeks to boost the No. 2 computer maker’s profitability.
HP, which employs about 150,000 workers across the globe, said [...]
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-17
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This is a demonstration of exploit detection using the Solaris implementation of C2 Auditing (BSM) to detect the system has been compromised. Of course , it helps to be logging locally as well to a secure central log server or protected media.
This was tested on an unpatched Solaris 10 Sparc system.
References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14074
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do”assetkey=1-26-101794-1
Sun Document ID: 101794
C2 (BSM) [...]
By Kurt Seifried kurt@seifried.org
While the majority of random and remote attacks come in over the network physical and console security are important factors. In a perfect world every machine would be physically secure with access to the console (i.e. keyboard, reset switch and monitor) tightly controlled. Unfortunately this is not a perfect world it is [...]
By: John Richard Moser
I just had some time to think, and I’ve come across something that
bothers me a lot. I’ve been attempting to write a small reference that
pools together all of the knowledge I’ve accumulated about security
enhancements that can be minimally invasive and cooperate properly in a
desktop environment, to design a system secure enough [...]
