Detecting a software's abnormal behavior to prevent security attacks

This article titled "Stopping a Cyber Attack Before it Begins" describes a new method for stopping attacks based on analyzing legitimate sequences of system calls.

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More details on the DNS vulnerability

This article from Macworld explains the DNS vulnerability in more detail.

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ID theft charges and Increase in Botnets

Today's New York Times has two articles related to security - one regarding the charging of 11 individuals in the infamous credit card ID thefts here and the second, here, on botnets with control in Russia.

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DNS exploits on recursive queries

Please see this article from Ars Technica and the links therein.

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Route hijacking

This accidental route hijacking demonstrates how real a security problem this can be if proper verification of route advertisements is not done.

Friendly worm?

This article from SecurityFocus looks at the concept of a friendly worm that applies patches. A discussion of the best propagation schemes for beneficial activities is the focus of a paper by Microsoft available here.

British company develops "self destruct" technology for sensitive laptop data

This link (courtesy of Barry) uses the location of the laptop to destroy data if it is out of a physical boundary.

Fast Flux

This post is courtesy of Nick. Fast flux is a technique that makes use of DNS to hide a key host in a botnet and reduce the possibility of having a central weak point. See this article on Security Focus and this advisory by ICANN.

Some videos

Welcome to TELCOM 2821: Spring 2008. Here are a couple of links from John, who is enrolled in the class.

Link 1: DDoS in Estonia
Link 2: Talk on Storm worm

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