Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Kernel.org hacked ! // From: J.H. <[email protected]> Subject: [kernel.org users] [KORG] Master back-end break-in

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Kernel.org machines were hacked into, possibly via stolen credentials. Investigation is underway.

Thanks to GIT crypt-signing each commit, there is no danger to linux kernel code.

Penetration Testing Policy for Amazon EC2

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

read this if you need to conduct pen and security testing on / from EC2 instances

Penetration Testing Policy for Amazon EC2

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

respawn_redux [presistent cookies based on If-Modified or Etag headers]

Saturday, August 20th, 2011

An article that describes a method to create a permanent cookie based on If-Modified and Etag HTTP headers. Currently this is used in “the wild” by several banner and add networks. The method is possible because of the simplified implementation of …

respawn_redux [presistent cookies based on If-Modified or Etag headers]

Saturday, August 20th, 2011

Linux router 10G in production / performance refernce [rus]

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Linux router 10G in production / performance refernce [rus]

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

russian ISP/network operators community forum: a post with live stats from a system system that routes ~ 10G/1.9Mpps of live traffic on Intel X520-2 82559EB card, 2 x Xeon E5620

[RUS] Убей в себе государство – Прощай, FreeBSD | A Farewell to FreeBSD –Rambler mail migrates to Debian Linux

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

[RUS] Убей в себе государство – Прощай, FreeBSD | A Farewell to FreeBSD –Rambler mail migrates to Debian Linux

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

Mail services from Rambler.ru ( rambler.ru: #179 from alexa top 500, #11 in Russia) migrates from FreeBSD to Linux (Debian) :
“Regretfully, we cannot keep production on FreeBSD any longer. There are several reasons to it, but the primary are:…

Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do? [by Jesper M. Johansson, Security Program Manager Microsoft Corporation]

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011