Category Archives: Defense

Netios

I just released an alpha release of a little tool that may help network administrators with a large park of Cisco routers or switches : Netios is a little tool aimed to help network administrators to administrate a large number of Cisco network devices. Providing it with a list of equipments, it connects within SSH [...]

IPv6 tunneling and security

Interesting article to read about IPv6 tunneling and security aspects. The commends are worth reading too. Follow this link.

openSUSE kernel sources : patching against sock_sendpage() NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability

I am using the 2.6.30 kernel sources from Kernel:linux-next and noticed that it has not yet been patched against the ’sock_sendpage()’ NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability. The threat is serious as it could allow a local user to gain root privileges. Those who compile their own 2.6.x kernel should apply this patch (from Linus, check there [...]

ARPFreeze

ARPFreeze is a nice GUI for Windows that allows to configure static ARP entries very easily, and makes these changes persistent after reboot. Thus does it protect the client machine against ARP flooding. It works for both Windows Vista and prior versions (support of arp -s and netsh).