Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Moving to Linux - Kiss the blue screen of death goodbye
Linuxbeginner.org review of the "Moving to Linux" book by Marcel Gagne.
101 Cool Scripts - book review
Slashdot review of a bash shell cookbook by Dave Taylor.

Newsforge - A Peek At Script Kiddie Culture
Interview with security expert Andrew Kirch , who infilitrated several script kiddie IRC groups.

Quote:
"Roblimo: Doesn't this give the lie to a recent Microsoft statement that most exploits are done by reverse-engineering their security patches?

Andy: Absolutely. I quoted you May as when I found out about DCOM. Do you remember when they patched it?

Roblimo: No.

Andy: July. Consider I don't have access to these 0day exploits. That puts it around February or March that it was discovered. "