RTLD Security Exploit in FreeBSD
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009On November 30 2009, a security vulnerability was discovered by Nikolaos Rangos (aka Kingcope) in recent FreeBSD releases exploting code in the run-time link-editor, rtld. A patch was shortly issued and updated binaries were announced December 3 2009 in FreeBSD security announcement FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld. This vulnerability is critical in nature as it allows a [...]
Firewall your FreeBSD for Safety’s Sake
Sunday, July 20th, 2008We 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, 2008Virtual 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, 2008Dan 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 [...]
