Professor questioned on Tor Usage
A member of the campuses' IT security team and 2 campus police officers showed up on a Bowling Green State University Professor's doorstep after discovering he was using TOR.
I recognized the speaker as a network-security technician in my university's office of information-technology services. The other men were not familiar, but a quick glance at their cards told me they were detectives on our campus police force. They closed my office door behind them, sat down, took out notepads and pens, and asked if I had a few minutes to speak with them about Tor.
Catching Cacti: Network Admin Guide
I stumbled across this great beginner's admin manual on the care and feeding of Cacti, a wonderful RRD-based graphing tool. While Cacti is relatively easy to setup, this little guide would have made the path a little smoother back when I first discovered this gem of an app.
See it here.
SANS Top 20 Vulnerabilities 2006 update
This marks the 7th year of the SANS top 20 vulnerabilities list, and it is interesting to see the progression through the years. The usual batch of hotfixes and patches abound, but there are a lot of more general technology vulnerabilities discussed such as Phishing, etc.
Check out the list at the SANS website.
Introduction to Kismet
A nice introduction to Kismet. Kismet can sniff for available wireless networks, troubleshoot wireless networks, optimize signal strength for access points and clients, and detect network intrusions.
Free Tools to Recover lost data
5 free applications that will save you from a data loss disaster.
How to Know When Unsubscribing Isn’t Safe
What if unsubscribing from an e-mail newsletter actually prompted the publisher to sell your e-mail address to spammers? This article describes an easy, free way to know in advance whether it's safe to unsubscribe from an e-mail list. It also reveals secrets of some innocent-looking unsubscribe forms that are not safe to use.
MIT Reports: The Worst Spyware Bundles
When we first started crawling the Web looking for bad downloads last year, we weren't sure what we'd find. I can say with equal confidence that there's also plenty of train wrecks waiting to happen to your PC.
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