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Hi, PullThePlug's management team has thought about using google adsense. The Problem is adsense uses content. as you can see from our website there isnt much content. We get our 10k+ hit's a month from our wargames, downloadable levels, etc. Does anyone have any suggestions? The problem is getting the right ads on the page.. I know alot of programmers dont want to goto our wargames and see ads for CD players and DVD Players. Instead, They would be interested in things like programming magazines? (dr dobbs?) etc. http://www.pulltheplug.org/

http://vortex.labs.pulltheplug.org/ vortex deals with basic exploitation... buffer overflows/fmt strings etc..
http://semtex.labs.pulltheplug.org/ Semtex is for people who want network challenges (not neccessarily exploitation)
http://www.pulltheplug.org/wargames/catalyst/ Reverse Engineering and Binary Analysis - the server is down but you can get the levels via the page.
http://www.pulltheplug.org/wargames/blackhole/ Remote Exploitation - the server is down but you can get the levels via the page
http://blacksun.labs.pulltheplug.org/ our newest wargame - deals with defeating hardened hosts... (PaX etc...)

our IRC network has quite a few people who play the wargames (irc.pulltheplug.org #social)
(ok i'm done with this shameless plug :))

http://vortex.labs.pulltheplug.org/ vortex deals with basic exploitation... buffer overflows/fmt strings etc..
http://semtex.labs.pulltheplug.org/ Semtex is for people who want network challenges (not neccessarily exploitation)
http://www.pulltheplug.org/wargames/catalyst/ Reverse Engineering and Binary Analysis - the server is down but you can get the levels via the page.
http://www.pulltheplug.org/wargames/blackhole/ Remote Exploitation - the server is down but you can get the levels via the page
http://blacksun.labs.pulltheplug.org/ our newest wargame - deals with defeating hardened hosts... (PaX etc...)

our IRC network has quite a few people who play the wargames (irc.pulltheplug.org #social)
(ok i'm done with this shameless plug :))

http://vortex.labs.pulltheplug.org/ vortex deals with basic exploitation... buffer overflows/fmt strings etc..
http://semtex.labs.pulltheplug.org/ Semtex is for people who want network challenges (not neccessarily exploitation)
http://www.pulltheplug.org/wargames/catalyst/ Reverse Engineering and Binary Analysis - the server is down but you can get the levels via the page.
http://www.pulltheplug.org/wargames/blackhole/ Remote Exploitation - the server is down but you can get the levels via the page
http://blacksun.labs.pulltheplug.org/ our newest wargame - deals with defeating hardened hosts... (PaX etc...)

our IRC network has quite a few people who play the wargames (irc.pulltheplug.org #social)
(ok i'm done with this shameless plug :))

http://vortex.labs.pulltheplug.org/ vortex deals with basic exploitation... buffer overflows/fmt strings etc..
http://semtex.labs.pulltheplug.org/ Semtex is for people who want network challenges (not neccessarily exploitation)
http://www.pulltheplug.org/wargames/catalyst/ Reverse Engineering and Binary Analysis - the server is down but you can get the levels via the page.
http://www.pulltheplug.org/wargames/blackhole/ Remote Exploitation - the server is down but you can get the levels via the page
http://blacksun.labs.pulltheplug.org/ our newest wargame - deals with defeating hardened hosts... (PaX etc...)

our IRC network has quite a few people who play the wargames (irc.pulltheplug.org #social)
(ok i'm done with this shameless plug :))

http://vortex.labs.pulltheplug.org/ vortex deals with basic exploitation... buffer overflows/fmt strings etc..
http://semtex.labs.pulltheplug.org/ Semtex is for people who want network challenges (not neccessarily exploitation)
http://www.pulltheplug.org/wargames/catalyst/ Reverse Engineering and Binary Analysis - the server is down but you can get the levels via the page.
http://www.pulltheplug.org/wargames/blackhole/ Remote Exploitation - the server is down but you can get the levels via the page
http://blacksun.labs.pulltheplug.org/ our newest wargame - deals with defeating hardened hosts... (PaX etc...)

our IRC network has quite a few people who play the wargames (irc.pulltheplug.org #social)
(ok i'm done with this shameless plug :))

I've been this training. We hand our hands held while having ethereal, nmap, and such tools demonstrated. It's a total waste of money for a technical person.

It may be useful to scare management into securing their networks though.

For better training, check out http://pulltheplug.org/ and the dozens of other "war games" out there.

He added the link iirc... pulltheplug has an irc network where you could go to discuss challenges and wargames ( we also have a few new ones ) irc.pulltheplug.org #social list of challenges/wargames

Andrewg does know what he talking about. andrewg has published papers (not on mac security) and is part of some wonderful communities pulltheplug.org and felinemenace.org . I assure you that this machine would of been hacked... with SSH access or not. I think it shows the importance of having patches that minimize possible exposure (i.e grsec/pax etc) that would of decreased the chances of successful exploitation dramatically.... but then again nothing is bullet proof

It's my understanding that dtrace is in the process of being ported under the OpenSolaris license to run on BSD. Yes, it's not FSF/GNU compatible, but as a standalone userland utility I'm not sure why that would matter to a user. (I.e. if you just want to use it, and not link it to anything, does it matter a lot?)

A future Linux version might not be able to be included in some of the more "pure" GNU/Linux distributions (Debian), but it could end up in nonfree and still be useful as an application.

The website of the FreeBSDTrace project is allegedly http://web.pulltheplug.org/dtrace/, but it's apparently down right now. The developer's blog is http://www.sitetronics.com/wordpress/?cat=8