LinuxSecurity Contributor - Benjamin D. Thomas
Benjamin D. Thomas
Articles From Benjamin D. Thomas
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Nationwide data breach bill clears a hurdle
04 April 2006
The Data Accountability and Trust Act (DATA) was approved by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Comm
Government
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Network Disruption and Denial of Service
03 April 2006
Organisations today invest millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours in building out their IP b
Network Security
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Passive Visual Fingerprinting of Network Attack Tools
03 April 2006
This paper examines the dramatic visual fingerprints
left by a wide variety of popular network atta
Network Security
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Domain Registrar Joker Hit by DDoS
26 March 2006
Domain registrar Joker.com says its nameservers are under attack, causing outages for customers. Mor
Network Security
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US turns to tech to shore up its ports
23 March 2006
Airport screeners are using new technology to find explosives instead of hunting for tweezers, Depar
Government
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Revealing the myths about network security
20 March 2006
Many people and businesses unknowingly leave their private information readily available to hackers
Network Security
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Preventing DDoS Attacks
15 March 2006
In this article I am trying to explain what DDOS is and how it can be prevented. DDOS happens due to
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Sniffin Packets
10 March 2006
There are very few open source tools I’ve yet to see that are more useful then Ettercap.
What i
Network Security
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Rootkit Hunting vs. Compromise Detection
28 February 2006
The presentation I gave in Washington, D.C., at Black Hat Federal Conference in January 2006. It's a
Organizations/Events
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Writing Behind a Buffer
23 February 2006
In this paper we are going to describe a kind of vulnerability that
is known in the literature but
LinuxSecurity.com Feature Articles
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Locking down America's Net defenses
17 February 2006
We'll soon find out, says Andy Purdy, acting director of the National Cyber Security Division of the
Government
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Security in the Cloud
16 February 2006
One of the basic philosophies of security is defense in depth: overlapping systems designed to provi
Network Security