SecurityFocus reports the Java Anonymous Proxy (JAP), used to anonymise access to the Internet, has been back-doored by court order.

SecurityFocus BugTraq mailing list reports that the court order against the partners of the project has been suspended and the back-dooring functions in JAP were disabled.

Computer network administrator faces multiple felony charges and years in prison for allegedly installing Distributed.net clients without permission. [SecurityFocus]

Example security policy to demonstrate policy writing techniques introduced in three earlier articles.

Explanations of basic IDS evasion techniques as well as suggested fixes and countermeasures to such attacks. Topics covered include basic string-matching weaknesses, polymorphic shell code, session splicing, fragmentation attacks, and denial of servic...

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