I joined the Project Honeypot a couple of months ago. Until now the placed harvesters were only of little use. But today I received the following e-mail: Matthias — Regardless of how the rest of your day goes, here’s something to be happy about — today one of your donated MXs helped to identify a […]
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How To Get Your Network Hacked in 10 Easy Steps
While browsing through some website content I found a TechEd 2005 presentation which contained the following slide: How To Get Your Network Hacked in 10 Easy Steps 1. Don’t patch anything 2. Run unhardened applications 3. Use one admin account, everywhere 4. Open lots of holes in the firewall 5. Allow unrestricted internal traffic 6. […]
designing a dependable OS from scratch
It seems that Microsofts Research Facilities have been working on designing a new Operating System called Singularity. So what would an OS look like, if you do not set performance but dependability as the primary goal? Could you sell such stuff to the ordinary user or someone like me? One thing’s for sure: I would […]