Category:Miscellaneous Education
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- Title: Cyber Insecurity: The Cost of Monopoly - Wikified by Loni
- Description: How the dominance of Microsoft's products Poses a Risk to National Security. Computing is crucial to the infrastructure of advanced countries. Yet, as fast as the worldʹs computing infrastructure is growing, security vulnerabilities within it are growing faster still. The security situation is deteriorating, and that deterioration compounds when nearly all computers in the hands of end users rely on a single operating system subject to the same vulnerabilities the world over.
- According to the CCIA report, that's because Microsoft's software is so widely used in both the commercial and government sector as to constitute a near-monopoly, if not an absolute monopoly. Therefore, when problems with Microsoft software become apparent, such as newly discovered vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers, the very bedrock of civilized society shakes.
- Daniel Geer (main author) was rumored to be fired (http://napps.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0926compadisow.html) from @stake for publishing this report.
- Author: Dan Geer, Rebecca Bace, Petter Guttman, Perry Metzger, Charles P. Pfleeger, John S. Quaterman, Bruce Schneier
- Download: cyberinsecurity.pdf (http://www.securityforest.com/downloads/educationtree/cyberinsecurity.pdf)
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- Title: Hacking Google Desktop Search - Wikified by Loni
- Description Google Desktop Search can be used as an application for remotely monitoring computers across a LAN.
- Author: abeusher
- Download: 000054.html (http://www.sharp-ideas.net/archives/000054.html#more)
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- Title: How is security measured
- Description A reasonable conclusion in seeking the answer is not to go to Fort Knox, Area51, or the secret CIA training base, but to your nearest athletics running track. On the track are hurdles, which separate the runner from his objective – reaching the finish line in as little time as possible. Runners set, *bang*, and they’re off! Some take the lead, some fall behind, some knock over a hurdle or two, and some cheat by sidestepping or ducking under the hurdles. It’s simply a matter of time until one of the runners completes the objective and makes it to the finish line.
- Author: Alon Swartz
- Download: How_is_security_measured.pdf (http://www.securityforest.com/downloads/educationtree/How_is_security_measured.pdf)
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- Title: Tunnels, Redirecting and Encapsulation - Oh My !!
- Description This is not really a paper, but a forum post i once posted, I thought it would be interesting to some tackeling weird situations having to use tunnels, redirection and encapsulation...
- Author: Alon Swartz
- Download: See wikified version
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- Description How to create an encrypted loopback filesystem - Fedora Specific
- Author: Alexandre de Abreu
- Download: See wikified version
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- Title: Change lost root password
- Description If you forgot your root password to your linux machine, this short item explains what to do to change it.
- Download: change (http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/change)
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