NuFW is an authenticating firewall. It adds strict and secure identity-based filtering capabilities to enterprise-grade firewalls. It can also set quality of service on a per-user basis and log user activities into an SQL database. Furthermore, it can use multiple external authentication sources via PAM and be the key of a Single Sign On solution.
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Needham student hacks student information.
NEEDHAM, Mass. — School officials in Needham sent an e-mail to parents this week after a student was able to access the high school’s online student information system and student schedules and classroom rosters.
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Best Western databases hacked.
Best Western’s corporate databases were hacked into this week, as much as all of the 2007 customers information, including credit cards, where stolen from the database. The hackers inserted a trojan at a branch hotel and waited for a user of significant privileges to access the corporate servers.
“Best Western took immediate action to disable [...]
Detecting port scan attacks.
Detect those annoying port scanning kiddies with psad, a port scan detecting app that not only works, but is GPL licensed. The software comes with email alerts, automatic IP blocking and threshold settings allowing the scanner ot be fulling customizable, plus its open source.
Hacking with an iPhone and the US Postal Service.
Have you ever thought about using an iPhone and the US Postal Service to hack into a network? Using the iPhone’s WiFi system you can actually ship the iPhone to the target company, and hope it doesn’t get delivered for a couple days. Basically you mail it to a none existent “employee” and hope it [...]