This is an interesting paper
describing the design approach to Google's file system. The design had
to take into account the requirements for huge files, a highly
responsive infrastructure and an assumption that hardware components
will always fail."
September 2003 Archives
If you use strings on Microsoft's Services for Unix (SFU) interoperability suite which was developed by Interex you find that it is largely composed of source from the OpenBSD 3.0 source tree according to a recent deadly.org article.
Daniel E. Geer Jr., one of the primary authors of a report Reliance On "MS A Danger To National Security", was fired from @stake Thursday morning. The company said that 'The values and opinions of the report are not in line with @stake's views' and that Geer's participation was 'not sanctioned.'.
Sombria (shadowy in Portuguese) is a honeypot system set up in Tokyo, Japan, intended for network surveillance and research. This paper provides some statistics and an overview of the most prominent attacks from May through July 2003.
Ofer Maor and Amichai Shulman of WebCohort recently posted an interessting paper about Blindfolded SQL Injection
to BugTraQ. It describes how SQL Injection can be performed without the
help of detailed error messages from the webserver. More Info gives the
SQL Injection Whitepaper and the More Advanced SQL Injection Paper from SecuriTeam.com.
