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 | from Tony Bradley, your Editor and Guide If you are in the United States- Happy Labor Day!! Hopefully you've had an enjoyable extended holiday weekend. This week we have some news blurbs about problems with the security of the electric grid among speculation that the MSBlaster worm may have had something to do with the Great Blackout of 2003. The FBI also made an arrest Friday of an 18-year old Minnesota teen for allegedly creating one of the MSBlaster worm variants that has plagued the Internet over the past couple weeks. This past week I managed to post a slew of book reviews including Hacking The XBox, How Secure Is Your Wireless Network?, Hack Proofing Your Wireless Network and the Linux Security Cookbook. By the end of today the 50-question Computer Security 101 Final Exam should be posted. Check back on the main page for a link or look in the Polls & Quizzes subject. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Book Review: Hacking The Xbox Hacking The XBox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering was dropped by the publisher that was originally going to print it. They feared that Microsoft might pursue legal action using the much-abused DMCA law. The author, Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, then self-published and sold thousands of "Limited Edition" copies before No Starch Press stepped up to the plate to print this "Unlimited Edition". Hacking The XBox presents detailed, step-by-step instructions for hacking and reverse engineering a Microsoft XBox video game console. The tools and techniques used can also be applied to hacking other electronic hardware components. There is also good discussion regarding the ethics and legality of hacking and reverse engineering and the implications of the DMCA law that almost had this book censored from being published at all. |
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| Minnesota Teen Arrested for MSBlaster Worm Federal agents on Friday arrested an unidentified 18-year old in St. Paul, Minnesota for allegedly creating a version of the MSBlaster worm which recently wreaked havoc on Internet-connected computers. Taking advantage of a flaw in Microsoft Windows made public in a mid-July security bulletin (MS03-026), the worm bogged down network traffic, was supposed to launch a denial-of-service attack against the Microsoft Windows Update web site and there is as yet unsubstantiated speculation that the worm may have had something to do with the Great Blackout of 2003 that hit the United States and Canada. For more information about the arrest you can see this article on CNN.com: Teen arrested in Internet 'Blaster' attack. |
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| Book Review: How Secure Is Your Wireless Network? How Secure Is Your Wireless Network? (Safeguarding Your Wi-Fi LAN) from Lee Barken is a great new book on securing your wireless network. It provides detailed and comprehensive coverage of each of the wireless protocols and the pros and cons of each. It walks you through securing a home wireless network or an enterprise wireless network. The chapter on "war driving" includes discussions of the hardware and software tools you need to conduct war driving as well as the ethical and legal implications of locating insecure wireless networks. |
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