Tag Archives: security

Network Security Breaches at NASA

By vorlon | December 5, 2008

Bruce Schneier points to an article at BusinessWeek about repeated attacks on the NASA networks and successful intrusions. The article also mentions a possible connection of the problem of ROSAT pointing too close to the sun in September 1998 to such attacks.

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Serious DNS vulnerabilities – update for bind available

By vorlon | July 9, 2008

In the light of yesterday’s large coordinated release of DNS related updates to various products, I would like to point you to the updated bind packages in the portage tree.

net-dns/bind-9.4.2_p1 is currently being marked stable on all supported architectures
net-dns/bind-9.5.0_p1 has been committed with unstable keywords

Nameservers should be updated quite soon, since this issue should be [...]

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Chipkarte der Uni Göttingen unsicher!?

By vorlon | March 30, 2008

Ich hatte noch keine Zeit mir das genauer anzugucken, aber es sieht so aus als wurde die Verschlüsselung eines RFID-Chips geknackt, welcher auch auf den Chipkarten der Uni Göttingen verwendung findet. Diese wiederum wird u.a. zum Bezahlen in der Mensa oder auch als Zutrittsberechtigung in verschiedenen Fakultäten verwendet
via cpunk
UPDATE:
Mehr zum Knacken der Verschlüsselung gibt es [...]

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