Arming Linux against hackers

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Arming Computers with Tools for
Self-Defense

Arming Computers with Tools for
Self-Defense 01/25/2004 04:14 PM
Arming Computers with Tools for Self-Defense
http://www. nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?tip040115b

R.C. Sekar and colleagues at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, are working on self-defense tools to help computers protect themselves from common types of cyber attacks. The most common cyber attacks exploit application errors to burrow into a computer’s memory. To deflect these precision strikes, the Stony Brook team developed “smoke screen” that confuses and misdirects the memory attacks, dramatically reducing their effectiveness. The smoke screen has been applied to several common server applications, which the lab uses and has made available for download. According to Sekar, they expect to eventually provide tools to add the so-called “address obfuscation” technique to any application.

Linux hackers converge in Australia

Linux hackers converge in Australia 01/06/2004 06:51 AM
ZDNet UK Jan 6 2004 5:40AM ET

Hackers going after Linux and Solaris
Supercomputers

Hackers going after Linux and Solaris
Supercomputers 04/14/2004 02:29 AM
The reasons are unknown but several supercomputers have been compromised recently and little is being said about how they have...

Linux keeps dodging hackers and viruses

Linux keeps dodging hackers and viruses 08/02/2004 08:58 PM

Hackers Attack Linux Supercomputers

Hackers Attack Linux Supercomputers 04/14/2004 06:17 AM

Hackers, Windows passwords, Linux and
Knoppix

Hackers, Windows passwords, Linux and
Knoppix 04/11/2005 05:06 PM
Being the kind of technical person you are, you most likely identify with the old-time hacker ethic and disdain the popular use of the word "hacker" when "cracker" would be more apropos. ...

Linux Bangalore/2004: Hackers galore

Linux Bangalore/2004: Hackers galore 12/19/2004 03:46 PM
Linux Bangalore/2004, India's biggest tech-fest for free and open source software was held in Bangalore, the country's IT hub, last week. Attendees from many countries got to see more than 80 presentations delivered by 62 speakers in a span of three days.

Who Should Keep Out The Hackers?

Who Should Keep Out The Hackers? 04/22/2004 01:35 PM

Hackers getting new foe

Hackers getting new foe 02/14/2004 09:17 AM

XML Hackers

XML Hackers 04/09/2004 05:30 PM

News .com reports on the need to secure XML and Web Services.

Many years ago, David Megginson talked about new kinds of security vulnerabilities created by XML, primarily through it's careless use of external resources such as DTDs and entities, at an XML conference.  At the same conference, first BoF meeting on SOAP was held.  Since then discussions over security surfaced occasionally among XML geeks but no one else really noticed until now.

The rise in the number of articles like this one is, IMHO, driven by security companies extending their reach into XML and web services market and not by increasing hacker activities against XML and web services.  Vulnerabilities are real, thanks to careless adoption of XML and web service technologies by mainstreamers and the general lack of awareness by XML developers, but hackers are not likely to come knocking at those vulnerabilities.

Why?  Because, if vulnerabilities in HTML-driven websites and web applications are antelopes and zebras, vulnerabilities in XML and web services are like monkeys and gophers.  Why would lions climb trees or dig into gopher holes when there are millions of more attractive preys?

Of course, some hackers will come knocking but developers can easily move higher up the tree by using hardened manageable XML processors and web service engines which will emerge out of the glut of feature-happy, vulnerability laden XML and web service tools accumulated over the past 7 years.  Education and awareness is what the market needs most of all, not expensive boxes or software peddled by security companies.

I will add XML and web services vulnerabilities to my stable of post topics as well as discussing the real dangers of web services arising out of increasing ad-hoc dependencies among web service providers.

Hackers Take Aim at GOP

Hackers Take Aim at GOP 08/17/2004 05:45 AM
Online protesters threaten to gum up the web servers of Republican sites at a time when they will get the most traffic -- during the GOP's national convention. By Noah Shachtman.

Here Come The Mac Hackers

Here Come The Mac Hackers 03/22/2005 05:03 PM
Every time a new virus or attack comes out, someone has to chime in with the comment "buy a Mac." Apparently that won't be good enough any more. Along with Apple's increased popularity comes the news that more hackers are targeting the Mac system for security holes. Yet again, the issue of security often has as much to do with how popular the system is as opposed to how insecure it may really be.

hackers

hackers 08/12/2004 05:09 PM
Hacker Pleads Guilty. The Minnesota man who spread a modified version of the MSBlast worm over the Internet last summer pleaded guilty on Wednesday and faces 18 to 37 months in prison.

Everday hackers

Everday hackers 04/19/2004 01:29 AM
Boston Globe Apr 19 2004 5:02AM GMT

Hackers Choosing Mac

Hackers Choosing Mac 03/29/2005 08:00 PM

The term “hackers” can conjure images of teenager misfits, breaking into your credit card account in order to get into porn sites on the web. But these days when you talk about hackers your talking about those programmers that can make software sing. They take open source code and turn it into main-stream applications.

So what are hackers using for their “weapon of choice”? Well according to Tim O’Reilly from O’Reilly Books, andPaul Graham, author and programmer, it’s the Mac OSX. Why you may ask? Well according to Paul Graham in his essay “Return of the Mac”.

All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs. My friend Robert said his whole research group at MIT recently bought themselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's low point in the mid 1990s. They're about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get.
The reason, of course, is OS X. Powerbooks are beautifully designed and run FreeBSD. What more do you need to know? For most of us, it's not a switch to Apple, but a return. Hard as this was to believe in the mid 90s, the Mac was in its time the canonical hacker's computer.

Hackers & Painters

Hackers & Painters 05/13/2004 09:17 PM
I'm looking forward to Paul Graham's Hackers & Painters; it sounds similar to the ideas that caused me to start Hack the Planet. (BTW Oreilly, can we have the table of contents in HTML?)

Great Hackers

Great Hackers 07/29/2004 01:44 PM
what defines the best hackers .. Paul Graham: Great Hackers

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Hackers On Atkins

Hackers On Atkins 11/02/2003 04:16 PM
`Sean writes "Salon.com has published a story about Hackers on Atkins. Although going on a diet is the last thing on the minds of the stereotypical geek ...

Hackers of the Lost Ark

Hackers of the Lost Ark 06/15/2004 03:09 PM

U.S. Military's Hackers

U.S. Military's Hackers 04/18/2005 11:09 AM

MPs want hackers behind bars

MPs want hackers behind bars 07/01/2004 06:56 AM

Hackers: Under The Hood

Hackers: Under The Hood 04/20/2004 01:49 AM

School for Hackers

School for Hackers 08/02/2004 03:55 PM
A presentation on how to be the first to exploit new flaws in Web server software was deemed "just as cool for white hats as for black hats" attending the Defcon 12 conference here over the weekend. The session offered new tools, as well as insight into the mindset of the so-called black hat, or malicious hacker, community, said one enthusiastic attendee, who works for a security consulting company that secures Web servers for the financial sector. The two presenters, German security consultants "FX" and Halvar Flake, spoke about taking advantage of new-found holes, known as zero-day Web-based vulnerability exploitation.

Hacking Advice

Finding vulnerabilities to exploit is real work, the presenters said. The large, packed crowd listened to them talk about "making script kiddies into real hackers," referring to novice hacker wannabes who simply use other hackers' tools to deface Web sites. The pair outlined the procedural steps of drilling down and finding Web server weaknesses--effectively offering tips to those who want to do so, but also providing knowledgeable warning to those who guard against such action.

News source: PCWorld.com

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Hackers & Painters

Hackers & Painters 06/08/2004 03:16 PM

Hackers == Terrorists?

Hackers == Terrorists? 07/26/2004 02:23 PM
Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, others under attack? Despite all the big IPO news about Google, the bigger news today is that it doesn't work. Slap on an age-discrimination suit while we're at it, and potential trouble for the IPO. Have Larry and Sergei finally pissed off the wrong people?

B&Q lets hackers do it themselves

B&Q lets hackers do it themselves 11/14/2003 02:53 PM
ZDNet UK Nov 14 2003 12:52PM ET

Hackers targeting Mac OS X?

Hackers targeting Mac OS X? 03/22/2005 07:02 PM
Hacker attacks on Mac OS X are on the rise, according to a report from anti-virus software company Symantec...

Hackers add Web, chat to PSP

Hackers add Web, chat to PSP 04/05/2005 10:16 PM

MS UK 0wn3d by hackers. Again

MS UK 0wn3d by hackers. Again 05/25/2004 02:40 PM
Embarrassing defacements 'R Us

Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo?

Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo? 10/29/2003 09:24 PM
Ridgelift writes "Eric S. Raymond is proposing a new logo for Hackerdom. 'The Linux folks have their penguin and the BSDers their demon. Perl's got a camel, ...

All hackers are cowards!!!

All hackers are cowards!!! 08/23/2004 12:28 PM

Don't Get Googled by Hackers!

Don't Get Googled by Hackers! 08/08/2002 09:55 AM
BREAKING NEWS: The popular search engine houses a flaw in its toolbar that hackers can use to execute multiple tasks; Google responds with fix.

Have hackers recruited your PC?

Have hackers recruited your PC? 03/19/2005 03:09 AM
As the security concerns mount, many people out there are likely unaware of one threat that could prove to be one of the most dangerous. This threat of ‘bot attacks’ is something that not only affects some users, but the Internet as a whole since it can slow things down so badly….

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Hackers Take Aim at Republicans

Hackers Take Aim at Republicans 08/18/2004 10:20 AM

Wholesale Hackers

Wholesale Hackers 08/10/2004 09:04 AM

Hackers on Atkins

Hackers on Atkins 10/30/2003 11:46 PM
Salon Oct 30 2003 10:50PM ET

Superbug and Hackers

Superbug and Hackers 04/21/2004 04:56 AM

Hackers are like germs.  You throw equivalents of antibiotics at them, they'll mutate into superbugs.  For example, I doubt phishers will be tempted to hack Google to take advantage of AdSense Voluntary XSS vulnerability because they are getting enough loot from stupid phishing attacks to keep them happy.  Once Microsoft Outlook, the main phishing delivery vehicle, is plugged and their gravytrain runs out, they will turn into superbugs to find other means of getting their phishing lures in front of the user's eyeballs.

Oops.  I am out of tea for now.

Arrests key win for NSA hackers

Arrests key win for NSA hackers 04/09/2004 04:07 PM

Hackers cost UK.biz billions

Hackers cost UK.biz billions 04/28/2004 05:58 AM
Infosecurity Europe 2004 Misplaced confidence
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