Archive for the 'Security' Category

An Illustrated Guide to the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability

Monday, August 11th, 2008

exellent explanation for the much-hyped Dan Kaminsky DNS vuln. This is for people for whom word “DNS” sounds like it’s in elvish

Not a Guessing Game — Paul Vixie [from ISC/Bind] on recenet DNS hole

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

do a ‘dig TXT porttest.dns-oarc.net’ . || w.out disclosing details Pau confirms that the hole exists, and that !IMPORTANT! NAT/PAT effectively netrualize UDP port randomization fix

Leisink Projects – Hiawatha [simple small secure web server ]

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Hiawatha is a webserver for Unix. It has been writting with ‘being secure’ as its main goal.

[Russian] Andrey’s Blog: Некоторые новшества в Fedora 9 с точки зрения SELinux | Fedora 9 – new SELinux features

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

notes bout new SELinux user role types available in Fedora 9 and how they can be useful

[russian] DDOS – что делать. Если сервер только один – Linux с Apache. | DDoS – what to do? if you have 1 server linux+apache

Friday, June 6th, 2008

article describes some recipes to counter DDoS using iptables limit and string matching filters. Useful

James Henstridge » OpenID Attribute Exchange

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

notes about what is Attribute Exchange (ax) in OpenID

Plaxo » A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

notes about implementing OpenID

research!rsc: Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

good explanation of debian openssl bug. worth reading if programming is what u do for a living

protocols08cookies.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

[yet another one] proposal for secure session cookies

SourceForge.net: PIX Logging Architecture

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

oss pix log analyzer