According to federal councillor Simonetta Sommaruga, investigators should soon be able to monitor Internet traffic of Swiss citizens in real-time. By changing the “Verordnung über die Überwachung des Post- und Fernmeldeverkehrs (VÜPF)” act, the legal base shall be provided. This forces Swiss internet providers to build infrastructure for these monitoring services. Besides the fact, that…
DetailsGProbe, my C/C++ port scanner project which uses a raw sockets implementation, has moved on to the next step. The TCP SYN scan functionality finally works. But there were some pitfalls until that point. What to do, when your peer doesn’t reply As soon as I accomplished the task of getting my tool to send…
DetailsDuring my C++ studies, there have been a bunch of questions which came up related to proper memory management, passing data structures and so long. One question was, when to use the new-Operator to instantiate for example a class and when not. Basically, you should use the new-Operator when you want to make sure, that…
DetailsThe last few weeks I have been busy implementing my port scanner utility. I have done a lot of testing and reading about the protocols of the TCP/IP stack, especially ICMP. Although ICMP is a rather simple protocol to implement, there was an error, which was very annoying. Today was the day, when I found…
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According to an article at Heise, the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) 7 is coming during July 2011. So see which features are planned to be included, see here.
I’ve written an article about the recent attacks on the open source community. It seems, that attackers found a new and, unfortunately, effective way to to serious harm to open source platform providers and open source projects of several kinds. I’ve tried to put together a list of technical and organisational countermeasures which can be…
DetailsThe United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) demands better means for wiretapping internet users, according to FBI chief of legal department Valerie Caproni. As she sais, eavesdropping peer-to-peer communication, web mail and social networks is very difficult for the FBI. Although technology would allow to do professional eavesdropping, internet providers are not equipped with…
DetailsThe recent attacks on the SourceForge infrastructure showed us, that malware developers, hackers and other criminals are taking new approaches at distirbuting their malware bytes. When I read the blog message from the SourceForge team about the recent attack, I was astonished how huge the impact seems to be. There were many services taken down…
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