WWC snapshot of http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/security-new.html taken on Sat Jun 10 19:13:08 1995

What's New on Unix Security Pages

June 7, 1995
Addition of W3C Security Resources to Unix Security Page
This is great resource on security issues pertaining to WWW from W3C. Not surprising from the people who produce specifications and reference software for the web.
June 6, 1995
Addition of IETF Security Working Groups site to Unix Security Page
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) work on the area of computer security.
Addition of Oxford University---Computer & Information Technology Security site to Unix Security Page
A good index of sites that contain security information.
Addition of Netscapes's On Security site to Unix Security Page
A thorough description of the security provided by Secure Sockets Layer.
Addition of Rainbow Series Page site to Unix Security Page
The site contains documents about security issues including USA Department of Defense's Rainbow Books and European Orange Book.
June 1, 1995
Addition of the program Scan-detector
See Unix Security Programs page for a description.
May 22, 1995
Addition of 8lgm WWW site to 8lgm Advisory Page
The 8lgm WWW site contains all of their advisories (in text format) and information out on how to contact them.
Addition of Electronic Frontiers Houston: Pretty Good Privacy Workshop
A detailed and well written description of PGP.
May 18, 1995
Addition of a new 8lgm advisory
See 8lgm Advisory for the new advisory.
Addition of Information about RIPEM
May 5, 1995
Addition of Kerberos information and help
Another good sites for information about Kerberos. Apparently it's under construction but I find it is well organized with useful information.
May 4, 1995
Addition of SESAME
It is a system that is extending Kerberos on several points and that can use a mix of public and secret key cryptography. Thanks to Kare Presttun (Kare.Presttun@ansf.alcatel.fr) for pointing out this site and for provide the description above.
May 2, 1995
Better catalogized WWW Security sites.
April 25, 1995
Addition of CIAC Notes 09
April 5, 1995
Addition of Ronald L. Rivest's Cryptography and Security page
It has security information broken by topic and information source.
Addition of the program SATAN
See Unix Security Programs page for a description.
Addition of the program Courtney
See Unix Security Programs page for a description.
Addition of CIAC Notes 08
March 31, 1995
Addition of CIAC Notes 7
March 27, 1995
Addition of the programs fping, logdaemon, smrsh.
See Unix Security Programs page for a description.
Addition of Kerberos: Authentication for computer networks page.
This page has a lot of great information of Kerberos and it is well organized!
Addition of Internet spoofing reference page
March 23, 1995
Addition of CIAC Notes 6
Addition of CIAC Security Web Site page.
It contains CIAC bulletins, CIAC Notes and much more.
March 9, 1995
Addition of the program strobe.
See Unix Security Programs page for a description.
March 6, 1995
Addition of the programs sendmail and sendmail wrapper.
See Unix Security Programs page for a description.
Addition of the program arpwatch and tcpdump.
See Unix Security Programs page for a description.
February 27, 1995
Addition of the document Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into it.
The paper provides good insite on some common techniques used by crackers to break into systems.
February 10, 1995
Reorganization of the Unix Security Programs page.
Programs were subdivided into catagories. A number of new security programs and references to commercial security programs were added.
February 9, 1995
Addition of Spaf's Computer Security Pointers
January 24, 1995
Addition of a new 8lgm advisory
See 8lgm Advisory for the new advisory.
January 20, 1995
Addition of a new 8lgm advisory
See 8lgm Advisory for the new advisory.
January 13, 1995
Addition of CERT Coordinate Center WWW page
Includes search index of CERT Advisories as well as other security information.
January 9, 1995
Addition of Crash Course on X Windows Security document
December 23, 1994
Addition of CIAC Notes 5
December 21, 1994
Addition of FAQ for RIPEM and PEM
December 20, 1994
Addition of modified Portmapper program
See Security Programs page for a description.
December 6, 1994
Addition of Securscan program
See Security Programs page for a description.
Addition of Network/Computer Security Technology site
A new security site specialize in general security information.
Addition of Computer Security site
Contains a great deal of information that is presented in well organized fashion. The links have good descriptions.
Addition of CIAC Notes 4
This issue of CIAC Notes is a special issue about the Good Times virus. This is of interest to PC owners. Normally, I don't post things relating only to PCs but I want to maintain a complete set of the CIAC Notes.
December 1, 1994
Addition of PGP in a Nutshell Document
It is a quick guide in plain English on how to use PGP.
Addition of PGP: The Privacy Wars Document
A good background article on PGP.
November 30, 1994
Addition of Kerberos FAQ
Contains everything you wanted to about Kerberos and a few things that you didn't want to know.
November 29, 1994
Addition of wu-ftpd program
See Security Programs page for a description.
November 28, 1994
Addition of more 8lgm advisories
See 8lgm Advisory for new advisories.
Addition of Security-Related Files Site
A lot of good information including a lot of links to security documents and security ftp sites.
November 4, 1994
Addition of Xinetd program
See Security Programs page for a description.
October 31, 1994
Addition of Computer Security Resource Cleainghouse Site
Provides security information focusing on crisis response information.
Removal of NIST Computer Security (gopher)
Same material as above but the server was a gopher server.
October 26, 1994
Addition of the What's New page for the Security pages
October 24, 1994
Addition of Bugtraq Archives
Bugtraq is a mailing list that has open and detailed discussions of Unix security vulnerabilities.
Addition of Alex Security Links Site
A hodgepodge of security information available from FTP sites.
Addition of No More Secrets! Site
Great title! It has an interesting collections of sites (including "Hacker Sites"), a good list of security "tools" and pictures.
Addition of Security Site
Specializing in security information about Authentication, Cryptography, Electronic Assault and Firewalls.


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