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Common security attacks and countermeasures

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 03 May 2017 11:00:33 +0000

As a security professional, I talk to a lot of people about common security attacks and countermeasures. I’m not always certain the people I’m talking to know what these things mean. I am almost certain they aren’t willing to ask.

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How DDoS attacks work

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:00:56 +0000

Yesterday, half the Internet was broken. I knew something was wrong when I couldn’t get into Salesforce to check on a support ticket for my biggest customer. Another member of my team sent us a warning that a big DDoS attack

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Webserver Wednesday

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:14:17 +0000

Yesterday must have been Webserver Wednesdsay, because two things happened. A new version of Apache was released, and a new tool for testing the vulnerability of webservers to denial of service (DoS) was released. First, Apache 2.2.20 was released. This

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The worm that’s not a worm

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 04:31:36 +0000

I got mail at work today. The subject:

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Copyright terriorists can’t take what they dish out

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 05:04:00 +0000

Aw, poow widdle awe-aye-ay-ay! Poow widdle bay-bee!

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D’oh!

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 01:50:26 +0000

Sorry about the downtime today. I upgraded to Apache 1.3.26 to close a denial of service hole (since I never, ever write anything the least bit controversial--ahem--except on days that end in -ay) and then I neglected to restart it.

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