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Detecting MStream DDoS Activity Using Attack Signatures And Scripts

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Elliot Turner speaks about the recent "MStream" DDoS attack, and attack signatures he's explored to detect the presence of the vulnerability. "Using the attack signature modules and SNP-L scripts included in this write-up, one can detect and decode "mstream" network . . .

Anthony Pell
May 02, 2000

Examining mstream DDoS Tool: Security Challenges and Design Flaws

Another Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack tool has been released. David Dittrich heads up an analysis of the tool, in much the same way as his previous six DDoS analyses. "mstream is more primitive than any of . . .

Anthony Pell
May 01, 2000

Identifying Remote Hosts Covertly With Passive Fingerprinting Techniques

Lance Spitzner tells us about IDing remote hosts, without them knowing using Passive Fingerprinting. "One of the challenges of network security is learning about the bad guys. To understand your threats and better protect against them, you have to . . .

Anthony Pell
May 01, 2000

Nmap 2.50 Release: New Features for Enhanced Security Auditing

Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning (determine which hosts are up), many port scanning techniques (determine what services the hosts are offering), and TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote host operating system identification). More than . . .

Anthony Pell
May 01, 2000

Red Hat Linux 6.2 Piranha Package Back Door Threat Report

MSNBC seems to have a comment on the "back door" recently found in a Red Hat package. "It makes a change to see a story about a gaping security hole in a Linux package for a change, rather than . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 27, 2000

AboveNet Communications Cyberattack Halts Service for 1,000 Businesses

Internet service provider AboveNet Communications Inc. and law enforcement officials are on the hunt for the cyberattackers who halted traffic on Tuesday to almost 1,000 businesses that contract Internet services and Web-page hosting through the company. At 9:45 a.m. Pacific . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 26, 2000

Red Hat: Important Advisory Regarding Back-Door Risks in Linux

Back-door in Red Hat Linux? "Internet Security Systems is warning Linux users of a back-door security flaw that carries ISS's highest danger rating." The story explains, "a back-door vulnerability exists for any user running a full version of Red Hat . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 25, 2000

Red Hat Critical Advisory: Backdoor Access Risk For Users

A team of Internet security researchers say they’ve found a serious security hole in the most popular distribution of the Linux operating system. According to Internet Security Systems Inc., there’s a backdoor account in Red Hat’s Linux that would let . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 25, 2000

Proven CGI Security Strategies for Safe Web Development Practices

In a short span of years (since 1992, in fact), the Web has exploded from nonexistence to the gazillions of Web sites found today. As the Web has grown, so too have the capabilities of Web technologies. This article focuses . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 22, 2000

RealNetworks Server Disruption: RealDie.exe Malicious Threat Analysis

A group of South American computer security researchers earlier today released a program, called realdie.exe, that can knock virtually any RealNetworks video server offline. . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 21, 2000

February DoS Attack Analysis: Effects On Major Websites

More details are emerging about last February's massive denial-of-service attack, and they continue to paint a dramatic picture of how helpless the Net's biggest Web sites really were. . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 20, 2000

Mafiaboy Arrested: DoS Attacks Disrupt E-Commerce Sites

This past weekend, a Canadian teen who calls himself "Mafiaboy" was arrested in the Montreal area and charged with at least one of the February denial-of-service (DoS) hacker attacks that blocked access to such popular Web sites as Yahoo!, Amazon . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 20, 2000

Canada Police Arrest 15-Year-Old Mafiaboy For Major Web Attacks

Canadian police today said an arrest has been made in connection with a number of debilitating attacks on some of the Internet's most popular Web sites earlier this year. A 15-year-old boy known online as "Mafiaboy" has been accused of . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 19, 2000

Canadian Police Announce Arrest Of 15-Year-Old In DDoS Incident

Canadian police on Wednesday are expected to announce details of an arrest made in connection with February's blocking of access to some of the Internet's most popular sites, and U.S. television said the suspect is a 15-year-old known online as . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 19, 2000

Key Internet Security Principles For Effective Network Protection

Here's a pretty good guide on the basics of Internet security. Free reg required, but worth it. "It simply is not possible, therefore, to render a network system completely secure, and any reader who wishes to understand and . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 17, 2000

Analyzing Open Source Security Against Closed Source Software

One of the great rallying cries from the Open Source community is the assertion that Open Source Software (OSS) is, by its very nature, less likely to contain security vulnerabilities, including back doors, than closed source software. The reality is . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 17, 2000

FrontPage Web Server Threat: Security Breach by Back Door Exposed

"Microsoft programmers had inserted a security-compromising back door in their FrontPage web server software. Thousands of websites worldwide may be affected." ... "Anybody who trusts their security to closed-source software is begging to have a back door slipped on to . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 15, 2000

Government Response to Foreign Cyberattacks Hindered by Spoofing Issues

"The government's ability to differentiate between cyberattacks waged by hostile foreign nations and those perpetrated by teenage hackers has been severely restricted by the emergence of identity-concealing technologies and a raft of legal and constitutional issues, the director of the . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 13, 2000

Intel's Open Source CDSA Announcement at RSA Conference

Intel said it plans to announce Tuesday at the RSA Conference in Europe that it is open sourcing its Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) reference software. Intel Architecture Labs developed CDSA, which provides an open, cross-platform, interoperable software framework . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 11, 2000

Army Explores Biometric Authentication Methods For Security Enhancement

As part of its multifaceted network security strategy, the Army is studying the ethical and legal implications of replacing personal passwords with devices that can read fingerprints, recognize voices and faces, and capture a host of other personal biometric information. . . .

Anthony Pell
Apr 03, 2000

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