For the *few* on this site who use Windows, take advantage of Windows RAID. Install Windows 2000 server, mirror the drive, then put a modified boot.ini file on the hard drive. When the one drive takes a shit, you just pop in that disk w/the boot.ini file to boot to your known good hdd.
that Bram, such a nice young man
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BitTorrent Guide
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I'm entering this thread kinda late, but I just wanted to mentioned what a fucking cool guy Bram Cohen was (the maker of Bit Torrent).
I d/led it yesterday for the first time. I liked it, so I of course donated $5 to his Pay Pal account. Within a couple of minutes, he wrote me a thank you e-mail.
CylantSecure 2.0 Named Best Security Solution in LinuxWorld's Product Excellence Awards Program
MOSCOW, Idaho -- Cylant today announced that CylantSecure 2.0, an industry leading host-based intrusion defense system, was named "Best Security Solution" for LinuxWorld's Open Source Product Excellence Awards. Cylant beat out four other finalists to win the award, including IBM and Computer Associates.
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (August 12 - 15 at San Francisco's Moscone Center) is the premier event exclusively focused on Linux and Open Source solutions. Presented in conjunction with the UniForum Association, the Open Source Product Excellence Awards recognize Open Source product and service innovations offered by some of the world's leading ISVs, OEMs, service providers and developers.
CylantSecure applies a preventative, behavioral approach to security, utilizing kernel monitoring to detect attacks without needing continual signature or rule-set updates. Through behavioral measurement, CylantSecure is able to detect malicious activity in real time and control the operation of the software to report and immediately stop any aberrant behavior. CylantSecure uses sensors to monitor the behavior of the software, along with a statistical analysis engine to identify any abnormalities in the behavior.
Through continuous behavioral monitoring, CylantSecure can send users early warning of attacks, so appropriate measures can be taken. Such measures might include shutting down the program, shunning traffic from the attacking IP or performing system state analysis.
"To be chosen 'Best Security Solution' by our industry peers is a tremendous honor," said Joel Rothman, president of Cylant. "CylantSecure is a demonstration of our ability to measure and control the behavior of complex software systems. From a security standpoint, it provides a way of keeping systems that run vulnerable software secure - providing one of the key components of preventative security. By utilizing this approach, we believe that CylantSecure offers a unique solution for Linux."
CylantSecure 2.0, which debuted at Linux World, is the newest upgrade of this product.
Benefits of CylantSecure version 2.0:
* Easier to use.
* Easier behavioral training control.
* Significantly reduced calibration times.
* Policy creation wizards.
* Better behavioral visualization capabilities.
* Easier to use on non-RedHat distributions.
"By building a product that tackles the challenges of intrusion prevention in a different way -- enforced normal behavior of software -- CylantSecure puts control back into the hands of the 'good guys' like systems administrators," says Scott Wimer, CTO of Cylant. "This approach is one component of a preventative security posture rather than a reactive security posture."
Wimer goes on to explain that, "The preventative approach is a new approach to security that involves trigger events that the good guys can control. This controllable process is similar to the one systems administrators currently work through in every other area except security. If you think about it from the perspective of CEOs, CFOs and boards, controllable trigger events are much more desirable than the uncontrollable risk scenario that they are faced with today -- much less damaging and certainly much less costly."
According to Joel Rothman, president of Cylant, "CylantSecure is a demonstration of our ability to measure and control the behavior of complex software systems. From a security standpoint, it provides a way of keeping systems that run vulnerable softwa
It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous." Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54"
To badly paraphrase him, "In 15 minutes every virus will be famous.":)
Writing an introduction to the centenary edition of Orwell's 1984, Thomas Pynchon describes The Internet as "a development that promises social control on a scale those quaint old 20th-century tyrants with their goofy moustaches could only dream about".
Anyone actually read it? It's pretty good:
The road to 1984
George Orwell's final novel was seen as an anticommunist tract and many have claimed its grim vision of state control proved prophetic. But, argues Thomas Pynchon, Orwell - whose centenary is marked this year - had other targets in his sights and drew an unexpectedly optimistic conclusion
George Orwell's last book, 1984 , has in a way been a victim of the success of Animal Farm , which most people were content to read as a straightforward allegory about the melancholy fate of the Russian revolution. From the minute Big Brother's moustache makes its appearance in the second paragraph of 1984 , many readers, thinking right away of Stalin, have tended to carry over the habit of point-for-point analogy from the earlier work. Although Big Brother's face certainly is Stalin's, just as the despised party heretic Emmanuel Goldstein's face is Trotsky's, the two do not quite line up with their models as neatly as Napoleon and Snowball did in Animal Farm . This did not keep the book from being marketed in the US as a sort of anticommunist tract. Published in 1949, it arrived in the McCarthy era, when "Communism" was damned officially as a monolithic, worldwide menace, and there was no point in even distinguishing between Stalin and Trotsky, any more than for shepherds to be instructing sheep in the nuances of wolf recognition.
The Korean conflict (1950-53) would also soon highlight the alleged Communist practice of ideological enforcement through "brainwashing", a set of techniques said to be based on the work of I P Pavlov, who had once trained dogs to salivate on cue. That something very much like brainwashing happens in 1984 , in lengthy and terrifying detail, to its hero, Winston Smith, did not surprise those readers determined to take the novel as a simple condemnation of Stalinist atrocity.
This was not exactly Orwell's intention. Though 1984 has brought aid and comfort to generations of anticommunist ideologues with Pavlovian-response issues of their own, Orwell's politics were not only of the left, but to the left of left. He had gone to Spain in 1937 to fight against Franco and his Nazi-supported fascists, and there had quickly learned the difference between real and phony antifascism. "The Spanish war and other events in 1936-7," he wrote 10 years later, "turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I know it."
Orwell thought of himself as a member of the "dissident left," as distinguished from the "official left," meaning basically the British Labour party, most of which he had come, well before the second world war, to regard as potentially, if not already, fascist. More or less consciously, he found an analogy between British Labour and the Communist Party under Stalin - both, he felt, were movements professing to fight for the working classes against capitalism, but in reality concerned only with establishing and perpetuating their own power. The masses were only there to be used for their idealism, their class resentments, their willingness to work cheap and to be sold out, again and again.
Now, those of fascistic disposition - or merely those among us who remain all too ready to justify any government action, whether right or wrong - will immediately point out that this is prewar
Test Shows 99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl San Francisco, CA - Recent results from the standardized Perl Fluency Test showed that 99.99% of US high school seniors can't read Perl. This disturbing statistic shows that American students are painfully unprepared for life after graduation.
"This shows that there is a real need for a Perl Monk in every classroom," said Perl Monk Kelly Adrity. "We've got computers in every classroom, now we need our kids to be able to use them, and what better way to learn about computers than to learn how to read and write in Perl. I'm glad the budget proposed by President Bush sets aside millions for Perl Monks. America will lead the way in Perl literacy."
The four hour test had 2 sections, a simple translation section and a project section. The first part asked students to translate easy Perl phrases into their standard English equivalent, and the second section required students to produce a simple MP3 player in Perl. "I didn't know what the hell any of it meant," said one Senior, "it had lots of slashes and periods and brackets. It was so confusing. I'm feeling rather nauseous."
Perl experts were astounded by the results. "I was amazed that none of the students were able to read this simple sentence:
I mean, come on, that's so easy," said Paul Chen, Chairman of the Learn Perl or Die Association, which administered the test nationwide. "Teachers need to start with simple phrases like $RF=~tr/A-Z/a-z/; and work up from there. We really need to start teaching this in first grade if kids are ever going to understand this by high school."
Not everyone shared Mr. Chen's view about the necessity of adding Perl to early elementary curricula. Programmers Against Perl (PAP) spokesperson, Keith Willingham said, "There's no better way to scare students away from computers than exposing them to Perl. Even experienced programmers are frightened and confused by it. The Perl lobby is just getting too powerful, and they need to be stopped."
I've found this utility really helpful in ridding computers of all known variants of W32/Fizzer@MM, W32/Lovgate@M, BackDoor-AQJ, W32/SQLSlammer, W32/Lirva, W32/Yaha@MM, W32/Bugbear@MM, W32/Elkern, W32/Klez, W32/Nimda@MM, W32/Sircam@MM, and W32/Funlove@MM.
...Shiels found the entry point -- online clubs for spammers. The Internet bulletin boards, which charge membership fees, allow "bulk e-mail" entrepreneurs to exchange information on clients...
Where are these things? I'm sure tons of/.ers would love to go in and wreck havoc on them.
Slashdot Mirror
(Or leaders in other countries do, when they try to overthrow the evil dictators.)
Don't be foolish.
It can be used to kill tasty animals, too!
(Just ask Ted Nugent!)
(hand over one eye)
ARRRRRR-chiving!
Isn't an oxy-moron just a flaming idiot?
g++ burglarytool.c
./a.out
I saw that same model for $50 not too long ago.
All sorts of hacks, manufacturer links, FAQs, etc.
Perhaps some sort of spinoff of Marcel Duchamp's 1917 work of "art".
Those crazy dadaists!
I d/led it yesterday for the first time. I liked it, so I of course donated $5 to his Pay Pal account. Within a couple of minutes, he wrote me a thank you e-mail.
Seth Finkelstein has collected lots of good links on the topic.
...from their website:
CylantSecure 2.0 Named Best Security Solution in LinuxWorld's Product Excellence Awards Program
MOSCOW, Idaho -- Cylant today announced that CylantSecure 2.0, an industry leading host-based intrusion defense system, was named "Best Security Solution" for LinuxWorld's Open Source Product Excellence Awards. Cylant beat out four other finalists to win the award, including IBM and Computer Associates.
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (August 12 - 15 at San Francisco's Moscone Center) is the premier event exclusively focused on Linux and Open Source solutions. Presented in conjunction with the UniForum Association, the Open Source Product Excellence Awards recognize Open Source product and service innovations offered by some of the world's leading ISVs, OEMs, service providers and developers.
CylantSecure applies a preventative, behavioral approach to security, utilizing kernel monitoring to detect attacks without needing continual signature or rule-set updates. Through behavioral measurement, CylantSecure is able to detect malicious activity in real time and control the operation of the software to report and immediately stop any aberrant behavior. CylantSecure uses sensors to monitor the behavior of the software, along with a statistical analysis engine to identify any abnormalities in the behavior.
Through continuous behavioral monitoring, CylantSecure can send users early warning of attacks, so appropriate measures can be taken. Such measures might include shutting down the program, shunning traffic from the attacking IP or performing system state analysis.
"To be chosen 'Best Security Solution' by our industry peers is a tremendous honor," said Joel Rothman, president of Cylant. "CylantSecure is a demonstration of our ability to measure and control the behavior of complex software systems. From a security standpoint, it provides a way of keeping systems that run vulnerable software secure - providing one of the key components of preventative security. By utilizing this approach, we believe that CylantSecure offers a unique solution for Linux."
CylantSecure 2.0, which debuted at Linux World, is the newest upgrade of this product.
Benefits of CylantSecure version 2.0:
* Easier to use.
* Easier behavioral training control.
* Significantly reduced calibration times.
* Policy creation wizards.
* Better behavioral visualization capabilities.
* Easier to use on non-RedHat distributions.
Features of CylantSecure version 2.0 include:
* Context sensitive help.
* More powerful and flexible policy engine.
* Incremental calibration capabilities.
* Faster console.
* Improved behavioral graphing engine.
* Cross platform installer.
"By building a product that tackles the challenges of intrusion prevention in a different way -- enforced normal behavior of software -- CylantSecure puts control back into the hands of the 'good guys' like systems administrators," says Scott Wimer, CTO of Cylant. "This approach is one component of a preventative security posture rather than a reactive security posture."
Wimer goes on to explain that, "The preventative approach is a new approach to security that involves trigger events that the good guys can control. This controllable process is similar to the one systems administrators currently work through in every other area except security. If you think about it from the perspective of CEOs, CFOs and boards, controllable trigger events are much more desirable than the uncontrollable risk scenario that they are faced with today -- much less damaging and certainly much less costly."
According to Joel Rothman, president of Cylant, "CylantSecure is a demonstration of our ability to measure and control the behavior of complex software systems. From a security standpoint, it provides a way of keeping systems that run vulnerable softwa
To badly paraphrase him, "In 15 minutes every virus will be famous."
Anyone actually read it? It's pretty good:
Would you trust this guy if he was part of some sort of committee/organization to stop spam?
Where are these things? I'm sure tons of
Don't worry, spellling mistrakes don't count on
As for Evlish, don't come crying to this guy when you need an interpreter...
Maybe the title should instead be "White Hat Hacker Breaks Wind"
Here are their whitepapers.
Kinda boring, actually...