At The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, discussed various topics related to Linux development and the challenges the open-source community faces. Torvalds addressed hardware errors, malic...
A group of leading Internet executives said today that cyber-related problems like the ILOVEYOU virus are international in nature; therefore, effective information security solutions must be pursued on an international basis. The Global Internet Project (GIP) released a statement at . . .
The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium is looking for authors for information on PKI, security policy, authentication, firewalls, and a handful of other exciting topics. . . .
Here's an article for people trying to justify security to their management. It talks about getting involved with the SANS organization, making the case for security, virus detection, PKI and E-Commerce, and more. "The first rule of IT . . .
The latest issue of Phrack, a premier underground security magazine, has been released. This issue covers great information on Distributed Denial of Service attacks (including sample code), bypassing StackGuard, a tool that "eliminates buffer overflows", introduction to Pluggable Authentication . . .
More than 20 students recently sat in a room on the 12th floor of a New York office building to learn how to hack into Linux systems. But it wasn't an underground session run by computer criminals; instead, these students . . .
The keynote for the Internet Electronic Commerce Expo in NY last week provides some tips on avoiding problems when developing an "e-business" front-end for your company. The article is worth reading, but I happen to think the 1 hour . . .
CERT Summary CS-2000-01 Tuesday, February 29, 2000 Each quarter, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) issues the CERT Summary to draw attention to the types of attacks . . .
"In the wake of attacks that brought major Web sites to a standstill earlier this month, 20 Internet and telecommunications firms have formed a coalition to raise security standards for Web sites and the networks that support them. . . .