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'Critical' Linux kernel bugs discovered

2008-02-26 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Three bugs allow unauthorized users to read or write to kernel memory locations or to access certain resources in certain servers, according to a SecurityFocus advisory
 
Tags: kernel memory locations, securityfocus advisory, bugs, resources, access, servers, users
 
 
 
 
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A Blast From The Past: Linux-Kernel Archives 1998

2008-07-20 05:00:51 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
Oddly enough, someone emailed me this quote,found an email signature documented in 1998,from the Linux-Kernel archives Linux is a movement, a philosophy, where programmers and technical people take control of their own destiny. Tim Bass Ref: Email signature, Re: Future of 2.0.36, G.W. Wettstein (greg@wind.enjellic.com), Sat, 24 Oct 1998 10:09:27...
 
Tags: linux-kernel archives, linux, email signature, tim bass, technical people, philosophy, oddly, programmers, future
 
 
 
 
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Kernel space: Full disclosure for security holes

2008-07-22 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b32500 in Network World on Security
 
Linux developers fix kernel security holes out in the open. Is a bug a bug, or do security-related fixes deserve special treatment
 
Tags: bug
 
 
 
 
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Kernel space: Virus scanning API spawns security debate

2008-08-12 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b7b46c in Network World on Security
 
Should Linux include a virus scanning layer? Kernel developers debate the best way to protect virus-vulnerable OSs from malware stored on a Linux server
 
Tags: kernel developers, virus, linux include, linux server, layer, malware, protect, oss
 
 
 
 
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NSA Attacks West Point! Relax, It's a Cyberwar Game

2008-05-10 01:00:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
...kernel-level rootkit that burrowed into one workstation, started scraping data and "calling home It was a highly sophisticated attack, but this time the bad guys were really good guys in wolves' clothing For four days in late April, the National Security Agency -- the nation's most secretive repository of spooks, snoops and electronic...
 
Tags: army university, army, custom-built networks, networks, nsa, army cadets, west, cadets, network
 
 
 
 
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Review: Designing BSD Rootkits: An Introduction to Kernel Hacking

2007-12-24 12:15:18 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
Author: Joseph Kong Pages: 144 Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593271425 Introduction This book covers a very technical and fascinating topic that hasn't received much bookshelf space b
 
Tags: starch press isbn, joseph kong pages, book covers, introduction, bookshelf space, topic, author, technical, publisher
 
 
 
 
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More on Driver Certificate Revocation

2007-08-03 07:54:37 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...kernel mode device drivers here. So I'm guessing that those only occurr at boot time too. Microsoft's analogies to patches, which also often require reboots, work to a point. You might get a notification from automatic updates that you need to reboot because of a patch, but you might never know that a cert is revoked, and go a month or more...
 
Tags: revocation, checks, atsiv revocation, verification checks, verisign revocation list, operations, user mode operations, verisign, boot-time checks
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft Hits Back at Atsiv

2007-08-02 22:17:32 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...kernel code in Windows Vista x64 Perhaps I was the one who alerted Microsoft, but it responded tonight pretty strongly. As described by Scott Field, Windows Security Architect, in the Windows Vista Security blog , Microsoft has taken the following actions It (actually VeriSign) has revoked the code-signing certificate used in Atsiv. Such...
 
Tags: atsiv, microsoft, detect atsiv, detect, revocation list, revocation, verisign cost, driver loadboot time, verisign
 
 
 
 
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Show 016 - An Interview with Greg Hoglund

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2007-07-12 22:38:30 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...Kernel and Exploiting Software . In addition to shameless self-promotion of their new book, Exploiting Online Games , Gary and Greg discuss the natural tendency of certain types of code to allow exploits, how disclosure is a good thing when it comes to revealing exploits, and the use of rootkits by the good guys. Greg also makes us concerned...
 
Tags: greg, greg hoglund, rootkit design rar, rootkit, gary talks, gary, online games, greg discuss, gregs blackhat presentation
 
 
 
 
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Kernel space: the vmsplice() exploit

2008-02-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473aa8 in Network World on Security