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Hacker News Recent Exploits & Advisories
Treaty may not Include Privacy Provisions
Wired   - December 8, 2000

Dshield.org Lists Owne Machines
TheRegister   - December 7, 2000

Encryption Defeats RIP Bill
TheRegister   - December 7, 2000

FBI Hacks Alleged Mobster
Wired   - December 6, 2000

Council of Europe drops plans to ban hacking tools
TheRegister   - December 5, 2000

Secret Plan to Spy on All British Phone Calls
TheObserver   - December 3, 2000

A new class of Denial of Service Bugs
Bindview  - December 2, 2000

OpenBSD 2.8 Announced
OpenBSD   - December 1, 2000



Tutorials
Anon Email
The Design, Implementation and Operation of an Email Pseudonym Server - Attacks on servers that provide anonymity generally fall into two categories: attempts to expose anonymous users and attempts to silence them. This paper describes the design, implementation, and operation of nym. alias. net, a server providing untraceable email aliases. By David Mazi and M. Frans Kaashoek

DNS Info
Information on testing your DNS server to see if it is vulnerable to corruption attacks. A lot of services depend on DNS information. Online test for this vulnerability
here. Homepage here.

Ident
Identification Protocol - RFC 1413: A description of the Identification Protocol, a means to determine the identity of the user of a particular TCP connection

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VSU VPN Dec 6 00
VPNet Technologies VSU VPN appliances have serious remote vulnerabilities. A source routing flaw in VSU allows for unauthenticated connections to a target host on protected LAN of VPN, and a flaw in N...


Atstake Dec 5 00
Atstake Security Advisory A120400-1 - IIS 4.0/5.0 Phone Book server buffer overrun vulnerability. The Phone Book Service was created by Microsoft to help provide dial in services to the corporation an...


Net Sec Net Suecurity Dec 5 00
Weekly Newsletter from Help Net Security - Covers weekly roundups of security events that were in the news the past week. In this issue: Recent IIS 5.0 patch opens up old hole, Security problems with...


Securax-Serv-U FTP Dec 5 00
Securax Security Advisory Securax-SA-09 - The Serv-U FTP server for Windows v 2.4a, 2.5h, and 3.0b (all versions tested) have vulnerabilities stemming from improper handling of hex encoded characters...

Linux Napster Vulnerabilities - Dec 2 00
The Linux Napster Client v0.9 through v1.4.4 contains remote denial of service vulnerabilities, including a buffer overflow.  Homepage: http://www.fakehalo.org.

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-00:76 - Nov 25 00
The csh and tcsh code creates temporary files when the double less than operator is used, however these are created insecurely and use a predictable filename based on the process ID of the shell. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by the user running the shell. The contents of the file are overwritten with the text being entered using the double less than operator, so it will usually not be under the control of the attacker, limiting the scope of this vulnerability to denial of service.  Homepage:
http://www.freebsd.org/security.

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