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Firewall your FreeBSD for Safety’s Sake

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

We all know the Internet can be a dangerous place and in order to be truly safe a computer must not be connected to it. But that puts an immense dent in productivity and the flow of information, so it’s not an option. Of course the flow of information is the important thing and with [...]

Virtual Private Networking Quick Notes

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Virtual Private Networking (VPN) is a safe and secure way to transmit sensitive data between two networks or a remote computer and a private network that are connected by the publicly accessible Internet. It’s a great way for employees of a company to be able to access necessary information without having to actually be on [...]

Possible DNS Exploit in the Wild

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher has announced that he has found a major design flaw in DNS that could possibly lead to mass exploitation of caching DNS servers by allowing attackers to poison the DNS cache with their own entries. You can read his notes on his blog post.
There have already been hundreds of [...]