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Review of Building a Server with FreeBSD 7

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2008-06-08 01:22:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...FreeBSD 7 by Bryan Hong, you'll see my review for the self-published Building an Internet Server With FreeBSD 6 Posted , which I gave 4 our of 5 stars. No Starch took the first edition, worked with the author, and published this new book using FreeBSD 7.0 as the base OS. If I could post a new review at Amazon.com, I would also give this book...
 
 
 
 
 
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Review of The Best of FreeBSD Basics Posted

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2008-01-24 11:39:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...FreeBSD Basics by Dru Lavigne. From the review In mid-2004 I reviewed Dru Lavigne's book BSD Hacks, which I really enjoyed. 3 1/2 years later I am pleased to say that Dru's latest book, The Best of FreeBSD Basics (TBOFB), is another excellent resource for FreeBSD users. I really wish this book had been available in 2000 when I started using...
 
 
 
 
 
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From Linux to FreeBSD with Depenguinator 2.0

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2008-01-29 16:38:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...FreeBSD remotely. Colin tested the script using Ubuntu 7.10. I have a few Red Hat 8.0 systems and one or more Fedora Core 4 systems that I would like to convert to FreeBSD 7.0 I tried using Depenguinator 2.0 to convert a test CentOS 5.1 system to FreeBSD 7.0, but I ran into multiple problems. These included difficulty installing...
 
 
 
 
 
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Remote Installation of the FreeBSD Operating System without a Remote Console

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2008-04-14 09:49:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...FreeBSD Operating System without a Remote Console . I read about it on the author's blog . Daniel credits Colin Percival's Depenguinator with the idea, but he uses Martin Matuška's mfsBSD (memory file system) to create a FreeBSD image that can be written to a live remote system's hard drive, then booted and run from memory to allow full OS...
 
 
 
 
 
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Tactical Forensics Platform

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2008-04-24 19:49:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...FreeBSD 7.0 in case I needed to do packet capture and related network security monitoring tasks I decided to triple-boot these three operating systems. The box has three logical hard drives. Two are physical (147 GB each) and the third is a RAID 0 array resulting in a single HDD of 447 GB Before I got the following to work I had to...
 
 
 
 
 
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Sguil 0.7.0 Released

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2008-03-26 09:59:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...FreeBSD 7.0. Shortly you will be able to buy a copy of the new BSD Magazine featuring my article Sguil 0.7.0 on FreeBSD 7.0 also. Check out the release announcement for more details Copyright 2003-2008 Richard Bejtlich and TaoSecurity (taosecurity.blogspot.com and www.taosecurity.com
 
 
 
 
 
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First Issue of BSD Magazine Released

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2008-04-24 10:04:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...FreeBSD 7.0. At the time I used a CVS version of Sguil and FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4, but the article is still relevant One caution: I discovered a bug in MySQL, which I logged as Optimizer does table scan for select count(*) w/5.1.22, .23, not 5.0.51, 5.1.11 . You will encounter this bug if you follow the instructions in my magazine article. The...
 
 
 
 
 
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Answering Reader Questions

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2008-05-17 02:46:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...FreeBSD 7.0 in coupling up Snort inline with a bridge-mode FreeBSD machine? I think that this would be a match made in heaven. The last time I did research on this, it wasn't yet possible because the kernel can't handle divert sockets Sorry, I have not tried this recently Are you handling AV issues? I wanted to know if you had tied that...
 
 
 
 
 
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Flaws found in Firefox, Opera

2008-02-18 00:00:00 by Jason Meserve in Network World on Security
 
Firefox and Opera are both under fire as security researchers at Vexillium have found a flaw that could allow attackers to capture a users' Web history. No word on updates yet, but be on the lookout. We've also got pairs of patches from rPath, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva and Gentoo
 
 
 
 
 
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How we tested password security products

2008-04-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b58a00 in Network World on Security
 
Each product was tested on a gigabit Ethernet switched network containing servers running Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, FreeBSD 5.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, an