I just read an interesting story on The Register: It seems that the latest AVG antivirus is generating a lot of web traffic with spoofed user-agents (IE6). Read the story here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26/avg_disguises_fake_traffic_as_ie6/.
Category: Software
PktAnon : Packet Trace Anonymization Tool
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about packet capture anonymization. When you have to share traces with other parties, anonymization can be a requirement. A new tool is available: PktAnon.
Security Screensavers
Everybody use screensavers! Initially, the purpose of those little applications was to preserve the phosphor used in CRT displays. There are thousands of screensavers available (well known are floating texts, slideshows, fireworks, etc). But screensavers can also be used to display useful information to the user and why not security
AdvFS Goes Open Source
HP announced that the AdvFS source code will be made open source. A few years ago, I worked with Tru64 and AdvFS. It was a wonderful file system but, unfortunately, Tru64 development stopped after the Compaq take over by HP. Let’s hope that the AdvFS source code will provide benefits
Microsoft: NAP Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide
Microsoft (via the Solutions Acceleratos team) published an interesting document about NAP: “ Selecting the Right NAP Architecture“.
Microsoft, HP ship free tools to protect Web sites from hackers
Microsoft and HP released free tools to help web developers to protect their sites against SQL injection attacks. Source: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9103138&intsrc=hm_list.
Fired Due to a Malware!
The following story has been relayed by several blogs and newspapers. An employee was fired for violation of its company computer usage policy: Child porn was found on his laptop. The first human reaction facing such evidences is not always the best one: “Guilty!”. A computer forensics analyst spent one
Allo Mozilla?
Firefox 3 is out! It seems that the World Record of downloads in 24 hours will be difficult to accomplish…
R2-D2 Takes Care of Your Network
Nagios is one of the best monitoring tool available in open source. This software has been re-used in a log of monitoring platform available (free or commercial) such as Groundwork or Centreon. When outages are detected, notifications have to be generated. Classic method are: mail, sms, pager, instant-messenger, rss feed,
Lynis: Security and System Auditing Tool
Michael Boelen announced today a new release of his tool called Lynis dedicated to UNIX specialists. Michael is also the developer of RootKit Hunter. Quote from the homepage: “Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related