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Capt. Mubbers writes: "Both Mozillaquest and RootPrompt have pointers to the new Mozilla 'Tree Management' diagram which is now showing a delay until Q4 2001. Hey, I don't mind, later should mean that they are taking the time to get it right! Cough, cough Netscape 6.0." Sometimes I wish large projects would just use a series of intriguing codewords (or name+code release date), so this point-oh anxiety never had to surface.

evilviper writes: "BSDToday has a great article on how to run Linux binaries under OpenBSD. The article's already been picked up by sites like RootPromt and others so it's obviously as good of a tutorial as it gets. It's short and sweet, while covering everything from installing the OpenBSD linux package, as well as getting and installing the Linux libs for those of those without a Linux box to steal files from."

Noel writes "An article at RootPrompt.org talks about the reaction to the announcements by the OpenBSD developer team about new exploits that implied that the developers had been hiding the truth about the exploits so as to not tarnish the reputation of OpenBSD."

Noel writes "An article at RootPrompt.org talks about the reaction to the announcements by the OpenBSD developer team about new exploits that implied that the developers had been hiding the truth about the exploits so as to not tarnish the reputation of OpenBSD."

pryan writes "rootprompt.org has some interesting articles on locking down a Linux box on a hostile network (read: Internet) and cloaking a Debian box so script kiddies don't find it. Check out fortress building, part 1, and part 2. For you Debian freaks (I'm wearing a Debian swirl t-shirt as I type this), check out cloaking Debian. Of course, the cloaking article is easily adaptable to other distributions. Let's lock down those boxes! "

pryan writes "rootprompt.org has some interesting articles on locking down a Linux box on a hostile network (read: Internet) and cloaking a Debian box so script kiddies don't find it. Check out fortress building, part 1, and part 2. For you Debian freaks (I'm wearing a Debian swirl t-shirt as I type this), check out cloaking Debian. Of course, the cloaking article is easily adaptable to other distributions. Let's lock down those boxes! "

pryan writes "rootprompt.org has some interesting articles on locking down a Linux box on a hostile network (read: Internet) and cloaking a Debian box so script kiddies don't find it. Check out fortress building, part 1, and part 2. For you Debian freaks (I'm wearing a Debian swirl t-shirt as I type this), check out cloaking Debian. Of course, the cloaking article is easily adaptable to other distributions. Let's lock down those boxes! "

pryan writes "rootprompt.org has some interesting articles on locking down a Linux box on a hostile network (read: Internet) and cloaking a Debian box so script kiddies don't find it. Check out fortress building, part 1, and part 2. For you Debian freaks (I'm wearing a Debian swirl t-shirt as I type this), check out cloaking Debian. Of course, the cloaking article is easily adaptable to other distributions. Let's lock down those boxes! "

Anonymous Coward writes "Titled The World's Most Secure OS, this article in The Standard talks about what is needed to be "Secure by Default"" Probably the best OpenBSD article I've read in recent months. Theo doesn't pull his punches (then again, he never does), in particular, discounting the "more eyes means better security" philosophy. Then again, he's probably right. [ Update: noeld wrote in with a link to a similar article at rootprompt.org. Must be something in the water. ]

Quite a number of people have written in recently with the news that the Cracked Series has come to close with Feature #7. The series has been pretty interesting from a storytelling perspective - check it out on rootprompt.

Quite a number of people have written in recently with the news that the Cracked Series has come to close with Feature #7. The series has been pretty interesting from a storytelling perspective - check it out on rootprompt.

Noel sent us a collection of stories from rootprompt on how to secure your box. The articles include Denial and truth, Watching and Waiting, Hunting the hunter, The Sniffer, and Rebuilding the system to recover from the crack. It's an interesting discussion on what it's like (and enough to churn the stomachs of anyone who's ever been there).

Noel sent us a collection of stories from rootprompt on how to secure your box. The articles include Denial and truth, Watching and Waiting, Hunting the hunter, The Sniffer, and Rebuilding the system to recover from the crack. It's an interesting discussion on what it's like (and enough to churn the stomachs of anyone who's ever been there).

Noel sent us a collection of stories from rootprompt on how to secure your box. The articles include Denial and truth, Watching and Waiting, Hunting the hunter, The Sniffer, and Rebuilding the system to recover from the crack. It's an interesting discussion on what it's like (and enough to churn the stomachs of anyone who's ever been there).

Noel sent us a collection of stories from rootprompt on how to secure your box. The articles include Denial and truth, Watching and Waiting, Hunting the hunter, The Sniffer, and Rebuilding the system to recover from the crack. It's an interesting discussion on what it's like (and enough to churn the stomachs of anyone who's ever been there).

Noel sent us a collection of stories from rootprompt on how to secure your box. The articles include Denial and truth, Watching and Waiting, Hunting the hunter, The Sniffer, and Rebuilding the system to recover from the crack. It's an interesting discussion on what it's like (and enough to churn the stomachs of anyone who's ever been there).

Noel sent us a collection of stories from rootprompt on how to secure your box. The articles include Denial and truth, Watching and Waiting, Hunting the hunter, The Sniffer, and Rebuilding the system to recover from the crack. It's an interesting discussion on what it's like (and enough to churn the stomachs of anyone who's ever been there).

Noel sent us a collection of stories from rootprompt on how to secure your box. The articles include Denial and truth, Watching and Waiting, Hunting the hunter, The Sniffer, and Rebuilding the system to recover from the crack. It's an interesting discussion on what it's like (and enough to churn the stomachs of anyone who's ever been there).

An Anonymous Coward asks: "Over the years I have heard the idea of luring in Crackers into a honeypot, so you can watch them and see what they are doing. It has always seemed to me to be a better idea to keep the Crackers completely away with a low profile and a firewall. What do you think?" This is an interesting approach to security and one I have also thought about from time to time...assuming you can build a convincing enough trap so you can learn how they work. "Forewarned is forearmed", especially when it comes to Cracking. How likely would such traps fool really good crackers? Update: 04/07 03:09 by CT : originally this story misused 'hacker' quite offensively. I corrected it.

Anonymous Coward writes: "Fernando Schapachnik has updated his proposal for defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks based on changing network routes. His paper describes a technique that can be used to defeat the recent DDOS attacks in real time. The solution presented here is based on routing and it requires a certain amount of extra network infrastructure. "

AC submitted this article at RootPrompt, about M-Net, which claims to be the world's first public access Unix system. The politics, the gossip, and the flames predate IRC, MUDs, and Usenet. Just going to show there's very little new under the sun.

AC submitted this article at RootPrompt, about M-Net, which claims to be the world's first public access Unix system. The politics, the gossip, and the flames predate IRC, MUDs, and Usenet. Just going to show there's very little new under the sun.