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Security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest

05/16/2008  
Relevance: 8.97
According to good friend Robert McMillan of IDG News, Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, which he will release on May 22 at the EuSecWest conference in London.
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Good malware hunting for Linux

03/12/2008  
Relevance: 7.68
Linux has proved to be much more resistant to malware than Windows, especially when it comes to viral infections, but any remote exploit makes it just as susceptible to worms, trojans, and rootkits as any other platform. Given all the fuss in the news recently about compromised Linux/Apache servers being responsible for infecting Windows users with malware when they visit those compromised sites, we thought it would be a good time to take a look at three of the best rootkit/malware detection tools available for Linux desktop and SOHO users. Here's a brief comparison of three popular choices: Chkrootkit, Rootkit Hunter, and Ossec.
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Designing BSD Rootkits: An Introduction to Kernel Hacking

05/09/2007  
Relevance: 5.54
A lot of why I requested this book for review was sheer curiosity. Like many people, I'm used to thinking"Rootkit = bad". Why the heck would any author or publisher want to take on the liability of teaching their readers how to behave unethically and criminally? The little voodoo doll on the cover did nothing to allay my concerns. However, once I had the book in my hands and began to work through it, I saw it with different eyes.
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Linux Detecting Rootkits

01/28/2008  
Relevance: 5.49
A rootkit is a program designed to take fundamental control of a computer system, without authorization by the system's owners and legitimate managers. Most rootkits use the power of the kernel to hide themselves, they are only visible from within the kernel. How do I detect rootkits under CentOS or Debian Linux server?
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Securing Your Server With A Host-based Intrusion Detection System

09/20/2006  
Relevance: 4.93
This article shows how to install and run OSSEC HIDS, an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, rootkit detection, time-based alerting and active response. It helps you detect attacks, software misuse, policy violations and other forms of inappropriate activities.
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LXer Weekly Roundup for 3-Feb-2008

02/04/2008  
Relevance: 4.66
LXer Feature: 3-Feb-2008In the ramp up to SCALE next weekend we have a SCALE announcement, a concise history of Linux, Nokia acquires Trolltech. We have articles on VLAN's and Rootkit detectors on Linux, How to apply Unix philosophy to personal productivity, Eight interesting improvements in GNOME 2.22, Mythbusters- Vista gets BUSTED and the big news of the week, if not the month Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion dollars.
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PandaLabs detects new rootkit attack that can chang Linux MBR when running Windows

01/12/2008  
Relevance: 4.54
Not really open source news, but still it might be valuable for those running a Win/(Lin/BSD) dual boot: PandaLabs detected a new kind of trojan (has to be Windows) that overwrites the Master Boot Record, and upon inspection of the MBR passes the original MBR of which it made a backup. This master boot 'virus' could run too if you boot Linux, before Linux is started. You can fix it by running 'fdisk /fixmbr' from some kind of Windows bootdisk PandaLabs suggest, but of course you could also do this using GRUB from a Linux/BSD LiveCD.
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IBM developerWorks Opens Linux Security Spaces

09/18/2007  
Relevance: 4.19
Linux Security Spaces is are micro-site focused on aLinux Security issues and development activity of interest to the Linux Security community. You can easily turn the Linux Security spaces into a Google Gadget, Netvibes module, or a Widget for your iGoogle page. Learn about Linux Security best practices including: Auditing, intrusion detection systems, firewalls, virus scanners, LAMP Security, network among other topics and Linux security tools; NMap, Snort, Chkrootkit, Rootkit Hunter, TripWire, Wireshark, SELenux and AppArmor. The community leader is Mayank Sharma, a contributing editor at SourceForge, Inc.
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Build your own ultimate boot disc

06/26/2008  
Relevance: 4.13
You turn on your trusty old Linux box, and things are going well as you pass through the boot loader, until the disk check reveals that your hard drive partition table is corrupt, and you are unable to access your machine. You need a good rescue disk -- and the best way to get one is to create your own. You can customize an Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron live CD to make a good bootable utilities disk by adding and removing packages from the standard installation. Specifically, you can remove most of the Ubuntu applications and install antivirus, a partition recover tool, a few disk utilities, and a rootkit checker, among other things. I'm going to create the live CD within an Ubuntu installation, but the directions should work for most Debian-based operating systems, and can be easily ported elsewhere.
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