2007.01.24 Daily Security Reading
by Rodney Campbell on Jan.24, 2007, under Security
New Bluetooth attack disables phones
Security researchers discovered a new technique to launch Denial-of-Service attack against mobile phones.
Toward the end of 2006, several penny stocks–stocks valued at or below one cent–saw momentary blips of upward activity. The sudden surge of interest wasn’t a surge of confidence by shareholders based on some end-of-the-year corporate profit projection, rather it was criminal.
SecurityFocus interview with Bill Cheswick
He started the Internet Mapping Project in the 90s; you have probably seen the maps that resulted. The interview ranges over firewalling, logging, NIDS and IPS, how to fight DDoS, and the future of BGP and DNS.