Friday, January 22nd, 2010
I just noticed that I have 13 different virtual machines installed on my home VirtualBox installation. It seems like a lot but there are many more that I would love to install and play with. This is just a variety of flavors I've needed in the past for "testing" ...
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
BackTrack 4 Final has now been released and aside from the many bug fixes, this version includes a new kernel, a larger and expanded toolset repository and custom tools that you can only find on BackTrack.
Download:
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Scientists are set to unveil a lightweight system they say makes an operating system significantly more resistant to rootkits without degrading its performance.The hypervisor-based system is dubbed HookSafe, and it works by relocating kernel hooks in a guest OS to a dedicated page-aligned memory space that's tightly locked down. The ...
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
There is a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the Linux kernel that can be exploited by attackers to gain root access to a vulnerable machine.The vulnerability is in version 2.6.21 of the Linux kernel and some Linux vendors already have taken steps to fix the vulnerability. Red Hat has released ...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Whether you use a single desktop or manage a lab full of servers, with the various threats we all face from hackers these days you simply have to make sure you're running a secure ship.Running Linux gives you some inherent protection from attack, but you still need to take adequate ...
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