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Microsoft: DNS Outsourcing to Linux After Service Outage

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Last week Microsoft's Web server became unavailable to many users first through router misconfiguration and later through a denial of service attack. Networking experts blamed Microsoft's problems on a network domain which they said featured all four of its domain name . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 29, 2001

Microsoft: Major Sites Inaccessible Due To Potential DoS Attack

Several of Microsoft's high-profile Web sites remained inaccessible late Wednesday morning, a problem that has lasted nearly half a day and that may be the result of an attack. Since Tuesday night, the software and Internet giant has experienced . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 24, 2001

Strategies To Safeguard Public Websites From DoS Attacks

The challenge for successful public Web sites is to encourage access to the site, while eliminating undesirable or malicious traffic, and providing the necessary levels of sufficient security without creating constraining site limitations in performance or scalability. Disruption of service caused . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 21, 2001

Mafiaboy's Guilty Plea Exposes DDoS Security Weaknesses

Mafiaboy, the Canadian teenager accused of launching a series of distributed denial of service attacks against a septet of the Internet's most popular sites last year, pleaded guilty Thursday to 56 of the 66 charges against him--just before his trial was . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 19, 2001

Red Hat 6.2 Security Advisory: Ramen Worm Moderate Threat Report

A self-propagating worm known as Ramen is currently exploiting well-known holes in unpatched Red Hat Linux 6.2 systems and in early versions of Red Hat 7.0. In addition to scanning for additional systems and propagating to vulnerable systems, the worm also . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 18, 2001

Advances in Network Security and Telecommunications for the 21st Century

By the time this article appears in print, the world will be about to enter - or will have just entered - the 21st Century. On January 1, 2001, humanity will still not have fulfilled some of the more flamboyant predictions . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 18, 2001

Red Hat: Ramen Internet Worm Exploiting Security Issues in 6.2 and 7.0

Ramen is an Internet worm, which propagates from a Linux based server to another. It works in a similar way as the Morris Worm that was widespread in 1989. Ramen affects systems running a default installations of Red Hat Linux . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 18, 2001

Techniques to Detect Filtered Hosts and Bypass Firewalls

This paper will attempt to describe techniques used to discover heavily filtered and firewalled hosts, that will not answer to standard PING responses. It is assumed that the reader has a firm knowledge of the major internet protocols (TCP,IP,UDP,ICMP). . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 18, 2001

Asta Networks Launches Innovative Router Software for DoS Defense

Asta Networks will announce Wednesday it has developed router-based software that can detect Internet denial-of-service (DoS) attacks within moments, giving targeted companies precious time to react. The Seattle-based company's software detected a series of denial-of-service attacks over the Internet between Christmas . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 17, 2001

Red Hat Linux Exploit: Ramen Worm Compromises Thousands Of Servers

An Internet worm cobbled together from generally available hacking tools has compromised hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Linux servers by using two well-known security flaws in applications set up during the default installation of Red Hat Linux software.. . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 17, 2001

Understanding Snort for Network Monitoring on IIS Platforms

Martin Roesch developed Snort in 1998 for Unix platforms. Dubbing it a "Lightweight Intrusion Detection System," Martin made the tool open source and the number of people using Snort has been growing ever since. In the summer of 2000, Mike Davis . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 17, 2001

UUNet UK: Persistent Email Delays Following Recent Spam Attack Issues

Five days after being brought to its knees by spam UUNet's service is still struggling to get back to normal. In a statement issued this morning UUNet said its customers in the UK "may continue to experience some delays in email . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 16, 2001

Increasing E-Commerce and Mobile Commerce Opportunities in Today's Market

Dot-com businesses may be falling by the wayside, but the percentage of commerce happening via the Web continues to grow. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of cellular subscribers worldwide are gaining access to new wireless data choices, including Web-enabled cell phones, handheld . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 15, 2001

DoS Warning: Protect IRC Services Against Possible Attacks

Recent vicious cyberattacks on IRC services have now been linked to a National Infrastructure Protection Center security warning that advised systems administrators to protect their systems against a potential widespread distributed denial of service attack over New Year's weekend. . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 12, 2001

Developing Samhain: An Open Source Initiative for Cyber Worms

Over year ago, with couple of friends, we started writing a project, called 'Samhain' (days ago, on packetstorm, I noticed cute program with same name - in fact it's not the same app, just a coincidence ;). We wanted to see . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 11, 2001

Exploring Biometric Access Control Systems: Strengths And Weaknesses

Biometrics have garnered increasing attention and backing in the last few years. We are promised a utopian existence: never again will you forget your password or need to remember your access card to get into the building. Unfortunately, it isn't quite . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 10, 2001

Major DDoS Attack on Undernet IRC Network by Romanian Hacker

A Romanian hacker has launched a major distributed denial of service (DDoS), forcing one of the largest IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks, Undernet, to shut down much of its service, system administrators said Monday.. . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 09, 2001

Official Guidelines For Evidence Retrieval And Processing At Crime Scenes

In addition to photographs and sketches of the crime scene, a detailed accounting of all computer evidence is required. The search and seizure evidence log should incude brief descriptions of all computers, devices or media located during the search for evidence. . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 09, 2001

Essential Security Programs For LinuxPPC: Overview Of OpenSSH And GPG

This article provides a brief overview of programs including OpenSSH, GPG, and pointers to further information. "If you're like most LinuxPPC users, a large portion of your computing time is spent using network-based applications, either explicitly or implicitly. Unless you maintain . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 08, 2001

E-Gap Technology Secures E-Commerce Systems Against Hacker Attacks

Most e-commerce sites use sophisticated encryption to encode sensitive information and make it unreadable to outsiders. Whale's system, called "E-Gap," goes another route. What it does is ensure that hackers cannot jump from the Internet into a company's "back office" -- . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 08, 2001

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