Author: tlr

CERT has a new advisory on a Solaris worm which systematically attacks and defaces web servers running certain unpatched versions of IIS.

Florian Weimer pointed to Microsoft’s Remarks on “Shared Source” on FITUG’s debate mailing list.

I didn’t see this before, so here is the link.

As Heise and betanews.com report, AOL doesn’t like Windows XP too much, and ponders to torpedo the new Windows version.

I learned today that Germany has a Sourceforge clone: Have a look at www.berlios.de for details.

From Richard Swetenham’s Quicklinks list: The European Commission is organising a workshop on safer use of new interactive technologies in Luxembourg on 11 and 12 June. […] The objective of the workshop is to produce a report which analyses new means of content delivery from the angle of illegal and harmful content/contact. The report should contain requirements and options for future EU action.

The Honeynet Project has an easy forensic challenge as May’s Scan of the Month: Identify and recover a deleted rootkit from a compromised Linux system. Nice exercise for starters! (If you are looking for a more sophisticated exercise in incident handling, look at their Forensic Challenge. The solutions have been posted, but you can still just try to solve it, before reading what others have done.)

You can download the latest and greatest unstable mutt, version 1.3.18.

This web log does, of course, not exist.

It’s, just like most of its colleagues, intended to serve as a repository for random notes and links I find interesting. I’ll try to update this right column semi-regularly.

Enjoy.

Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>