Final Paper Guidelines (due 2009-12-02)
Fall 2009: Syllabus for CNT-5605-01
Groups and Group Member Information
Assignment #2: assigned on 2009-09-11, due on 2009-09-16
Assignment #3: assigned on 2009-09-16, due on 2009-09-23
Assignment #4: assigned on 2009-09-23, due on 2009-09-30
Question Set #1: assigned on 2009-09-23, due on 2009-09-28
Assignment #5: assigned on 2009-10-28, due on 2009-11-04
Security Assignment: assigned on 2009-10-28, due on 2009-12-04
Question Set #2: assigned on 2009-11-02, due on 2009-11-09
Assignment #6: assigned on 2009-11-23, due on
Daemons continued (html format)
Foundations and building blocks (html format)
Root and system administration (html format)
Handling users and data (html format)
Web and email services (html format)
Physical Environment (html format)
Disaster, recovery, and contingency operations (html format)
I highly recommend reading comp.risks (you can read it in rdf format at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/rdigest.rdf, or via email --- instructions are at http://www.csl.sri.com/users/risko/risksinfo.html) or adding its RSS feed at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risksatom.xml to your feed browser.
2008-06-09: Reference to the Tanenbaum-Torvalds discussion of micro versus macro: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution; Appendix A, The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate
2008-06-09: An Email About A SAN here at FSU: SAN Issue -- root cause explanation
2008-06-09: An Email about a Mailman problem here at FSU: Mailman problem
2008-06-11: An Email about a ClamAV problem with respect to Selinux: ClamAV/Selinux problem
2008-06-13: Reference for enjoyable book on networking:
2008-06-16: Morgan Stanley and AFS: When Your Business Depends On It: The Evolution of a Global File System for a Global Enterprise
2008-06-16: Relatively recent (2006) NFS operations resource: Linux NFS-HOWTO
2008-06-27: Recent article on top-level domains in the New York Times: New Flavors for Addresses on the Web Are on the Way
2008-07-07: Recent article on consumer views of service downtimes in the New York Times: As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll
2008-07-09: Recent article on patching DNS flaw: Vendors form alliance to fix DNS poisoning flaw
2008-07-09: DNS patches prove fatal for some software: MS DNS patch snuffs net connection for ZoneAlarm users
2008-08-08: Press release from Dr. Bernstein on DNS cache poisoning: DNS still vulnerable, Bernstein says
2008-08-11: Plastic Keys to Physical Locks: Researchers Crack Medeco High-Security Locks With Plastic Keys
2008-08-20: An Email about an administrator failing to set permanent state after setting temporary state: Blocked Hosts List?
2008-08-22: An Email about an intrusion at Redhat's Fedora: Infrastructure report, 2008-08-22 UTC 1200
2009-01-05: Backup woes: Hard Lessons in the Importance of Backups: JournalSpace Wiped Out
2009-01-22: NSA Selinux link: http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/.
2009-02-10: Data breach at FAA: FAA reports 45,000 data records pilfered from server
2009-02-26: Man-in-the-middle attack that looks viable: SSL Strip
2009-03-06: Finally, a vulnerability found in DJBDNS: Security Issue in DJBDNS Confirmed
2009-03-06: And a second vulnerability also found in DJBDNS: Rapid DNS Poisoning in DJBDNS
2009-04-01: Spam Back to 94% of All E-Mail
2009-04-06: Carbonite loses customer backups, sues Promise Technology
2009-05-12: Berkeley data break-in: Hackers attack campus databases, steal Social Security numbers, other data
2009-05-12: The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System
2009-05-15: Backup woes at Avsim: Hackers 'destroy' flight sim site
2009-05-20: Microsoft IIS hole fells university server
2009-05-21: Microsoft IIS6 bug exposes sensitive files sans password
2009-07-15: U.S. Postal Service Gives Stamp of Approval to FOSS
2009-07-15: DHCP server can take over client
2009-07-21: More on the DD-WRT story mentioned brought up in class: Open-source firmware vuln exposes wireless routers
2009-07-23: Adobe Flash woes: New attacks exploit vuln in (fully-patched) Adobe Flash
2009-07-29: Major BIND bug: BIND crash bug prompts urgent update call
2009-07-29: FSU's response to the BIND bug: [Nolenet] DNS server code upgraded
2009-07-30: Data Exposure in the U.S. government: US Congress probes accidental top secret file sharing
2009-07-30: Hardware security: Intel warns over bare-metal BIOS bug
2009-07-31: DNS: Wildcard certificate spoofs web authentication
2009-07-31: iPhone: How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World'
2009-07-31: Details on the Linux 2.30 NULL pointer problem: Fun with NULL pointers, part 1
2009-08-31: Warming server rooms: Intel says data centers much too cold:
Frozen assets a waste of cash
2009-08-31: IIS, again: IIS bug gives attackers complete server control
2009-09-02: Gmail: Why Gmail Failed Today
2009-09-09: Windows unpatched: Microsoft confirms critical unpatched Vista, Windows 7 RC bug
2009-09-09: Windows unpatchable: Microsoft: Patching Windows 2000 'infeasible'
2009-09-16: System administration: The Curious Case of the Failing Connections, The Curious Case of the Failing Connections, Part 2
2009-09-16: Microsoft starts warnings of support phase-out for older Windows Server releases
2009-10-07: A practical example of why you do not want to still be using 512-bit RSA keys: TI-83 Plus OS Signing Key Cracked
2009-10-12: Linux saves Aussie electrical grid
2009-10-16: Big-Box Breach: The Inside Story of Wal-Mart’s Hacker Attack
2009-10-16: Maybe all's well that ends well? Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' data
2009-12-04: Test setup leaks into production: Bing dies (briefly) after Microsoft hits wrong button
2009-11-23 2009-12-02
Class Notes
Other Material
Network Warrior
by Gary A. Donahue
Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: June 01, 2007
Print ISBN-10: 0-596-10151-1
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-610151-0
Pages: 598