 September
2003 • Volume 12 • Number 9
Features
The Foremost Open Source Forensic Tool
• Ray Strubinger
Strubinger examines foremost, a free forensics tool created for the Linux platform
that is capable of recovering files from images made by the Unix utility dd, as
well as images created by commercial applications.
How to Build a Honeypot • Kristy Westphal
Westphal looks at all aspects of honeypots: what they are, how to deploy them,
and what should be considered before implementing them.
System V Init Staged on an RS/6000 SP Platform Bill McLean
McLean describes how to implement and control System V startup across RS/6000
Scalable Processor platforms, although it could easily be adapted to use across
standalone servers.
Identifying Spam Events • Jason A. Richards
Richards shares a script for extracting pertinent information from mail logs and
displaying it a usable fashion.
Detecting Kernel Rootkits • Sandra E. Ring and Eric
Cole
Rootkits come in two basic forms: application-level, which are based on a series
of trojaned programs, and kernel-level, which subvert the actual kernel of an
operating system usually through loadable kernel modules. The authors explain
how to detect and protect against these more complex kernel-level attacks.
Embedding man Pages in Shell Scripts with kshdoc • Michael
Wang and Ed Schaefer
The authors present a Korn shell function that allows printing documentation embedded
within a Korn shell script.
Securing Linux Systems with grsecurity • Keith McDuffee
grsecurity is an open source security package available for Linux that works primarily
as a set of patches applied to the 2.4 Linux kernel, improving upon system security
with more restricted process privileges.
I “new” It — A Generator for New Shell Script Templates
• Joseph Pietras
Pietras shares a script he uses to generate script templates.
Build IPSec VPNs Using the Linux Kernel 2.6 • Ralf Spenneberg
Spenneberg takes a look at the new IPSec stack included in Linux kernel 2.6.
Columns
Questions and Answers • Amy
Rich
Computing Securely • Randal
L. Schwartz
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