Tuesday a major patch was released to fix a flaw in DNS that potentially could give hackers total control of the internet. The vulnerability was found 6 months ago by Dan Kaminsky of IOActive.
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Single Packet Authorization
Posted in Security on Jul 6th, 2008
A quite common finding in firewall/gateway logs is brute-force SSH attacks. As a result, many choose to implement security systems that blacklists the source of the attack for a certain amount of time. This method however, has two considerable weakneses.
Today I wanted to set up a IDS solution for my Windows partition, just for fun really. I decided to go with OSSEC, which is a host-based IDS, but this still requires you to have a server running.