Archive for January, 2009

XMPPLogger 0.1.1

There is a little bugfix release of our little XMPPLogger. It fixed an issue with a (dead-)lock in combination with syslog-ng and added a (re-)start notification to all recipients. You can download version 0.1.1 here.
If you want to use this software in combination with syslog-ng you have to add the following lines to your /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
# [...]

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Syslog Nachrichten und Sysinfos via XMPP/Jabber

Like every company we also got several machines working just for our infrastructural needs like linux-based VMWare/KVM hostservers, OpenVPN servers and so on.
To monitor many machines we came across the idea to use XMPP/Jabber Instant Messaging to monitor the machines. For example the VPN should drop a line to specified XMPP/Jabber adresses if someone connects [...]

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Open Source and Security

Bruce says:
As a cryptography and computer security expert, I have never understood the current fuss about the open source software movement. In the cryptography world, we consider open source necessary for good security; we have for decades. Public security is always more secure than proprietary security. It’s true for cryptographic algorithms, security protocols, and [...]

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Game-theoretic Approaches to Security

POSTDOC AND PHD POSITION IN SECURITY & GAMES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG
“The project aims to develop new approaches to the design and
analysis of secure systems based on the observation that the
security of a system can be considered as the result of a game
between a defender and an attacker of the system. This observation
opens [...]

Thursday, January 15th, 2009