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caskey’s del.icio.us bookmarks for 2006-01-26

Argus —
The Argus Open Project is focused on developing network activity audit strategies that can do real work for the network architect, administrator and network user.
Tagged as: admin ip linux networking paralipsis security software sysadmin todo tools

caskey’s del.icio.us bookmarks for 2006-01-22

VX heavens —
An excellent open collection of viruses, worms and trojans. Very helpful to the budding security researcher/developer.
Tagged as: analysis article code computer documentation hacks paralipsis programming reference security tutorial

Configuring Xinerama in Ubuntu is straightforward and only has two real steps (if you’re lucky). The first is to set up your video boards so they are identified by X11. Then you simply need to tell X11 how your screens are aranged and then that you want them to be one large […]

As I read about Port Knocking and whether or not it qualifies as security through obscurity, it strikes me that not only is Port Knocking useless, it’s wrong minded as well. It fails to solve the very problem it purports to address, and creates the illusion of greater security. I believe this is […]

Getting TWM, a.k.a. the Window Manager Of The Gods working under Ubuntu is actually quite easy.

Install the twm package: sudo apt-get install twm
Create a twm desktop config file for your display manager: cat > /usr/share/xsessions/twm.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=twm
Comment=
Exec=twm
Icon=
Type=Application
CTRL-D

Now, you’re free to select twm from the list of display managers. I really ought to get around to […]

Driving a flat panel display at 1920 x 1200 is far more difficult than you can imagine. Sure, it’s easy if you only have one, but what if you have three? Well, unless you’re building a brand-new custom system with dual PCIe 16x slots and dual, dual DVI outputs, life can get a […]

If you’re a fan of complex systems, especially ones designed to ensure secure control of vital or dangerous systems, then you’ll enjoy this story about the Pinnacle/Nucflash keyword combo used to route messages of the highest priority, namely notification of a non-accidental nuclear explosion and threat of imminent nuclear war. Finding ways of constructing […]