| FreeBSD 9.0 ships with experimental Capsicum support - Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:06:12 +0000 |
| Jon Anderson, Ben Laurie, Kris Kennaway, and I were pleased to see prominent mention of Capsicum in the recent FreeBSD 9.0 press release:Continuing its heritage of innovating in the area of security research, FreeBSD 9.0 introduces Capsicum. Capsicum is a lightweight framework which extends a POSIX UNIX kernel to support new security capabilities and adds [...] |
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| Observations from two weeks of SSH brute force attacks - Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:49:40 +0000 |
| Earlier this month, I blogged about monitoring password-guessing attacks on a server, via a patched OpenSSH. This experiment has now been running for just over two weeks, and there are some interesting results. I’ve been tweeting these since the start.As expected, the vast majority of password-guessing attempts are quite dull, and fall into one of [...] |
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| Call for Papers: 12th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2012) - Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:42:44 +0000 |
| Privacy and anonymity are increasingly important in the online world. Corporations, governments, and other organizations are realizing and exploiting their power to track users and their behavior. Approaches to protecting individuals, groups, but also companies and governments, from profiling and censorship include decentralization, encryption, distributed trust, and automated policy disclosure.The 12th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium [...] |
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