LinuxSecurity Contributor - Benjamin D. Thomas
Benjamin D. Thomas
Articles From Benjamin D. Thomas
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U.S. Gov't To Use Full Disk Encryption On All Computers
01 January 2007
On June 23, 2006 a Presidential Mandate was put in place requiring all agency laptops to fully encry
Government
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DOD bars use of HTML e-mail
26 December 2006
Due to an increased network threat condition, the Defense Department is blocking all HTML-based e-ma
Government
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Simple Firewall Configuration Using NetFilter/iptables
05 December 2006
Most major Linux distributions, SuSE ones included, feature some user interface for firewall configu
Firewalls
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DNS Security and Threat Mitigation
30 November 2006
The Internet is a seemingly limitless source of information. It provides the power of collective kno
Network Security
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Shell Scripting, oooh...its easy
26 November 2006
Blessen Cherian, CTO and Executive Team Member of bobcares.com writes, "Shell scripting is nothin
LinuxSecurity.com Feature Articles
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UK Computer Misuse Act could ban security tools
22 November 2006
The new Police and Justice Act, published today, could criminalise legitimate IT security activity.
Government
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IBM completes UK government Linux security testing
20 November 2006
Questions in the House of Lords in June 2005 revealed that the Cabinet Office's Central Sponsor for
Government
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Packet Challenge: Fragments and a Blast from the Past
14 November 2006
This time around, packets from one of my own DNS servers. If you would like to follow along, you can
Network Security
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UK Bans Denial of Service Attacks
13 November 2006
There had been concern that Britain's Computer Misuse Act, written in the days before the World Wide
Government
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Backdoors and Holes in Network Perimeters
31 October 2006
The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
(SCADA) system of a natural
gas utility was compromis
Network Security
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The Changing Faces of Internet Security Threats
23 October 2006
Increasingly, organizations are developing comprehensive security strategies and implementing a vari
Network Security
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Sniffin
20 October 2006
This time we will install a network protocol analyzer to watch the traffic on our LAN from initiatin
Network Security