7th May 2006 Archive
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Sendmail and secure design
Comment Ancient code base and long vuln history
Recently, Mark Dowd of ISS discovered a signal handling vulnerability in Sendmail. We don't see major bugs in software that's as popular as Sendmail very often (at least, in the Unix world anyways), and that's probably a good thing. According to sendmail.com, Sendmail still handles about 70 per cent of all email on the internet …
Enterprise Security 7 May 2006, 12:02
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Why we are not naked even in the womb
The nearly naked ape
Desmond Morris, the great English biologist, wrote in THE NAKED APE (1967) that of the 193 different species of primates, only one is naked: Humans. Morris meant that all other primates are covered in body hair. Ironically, we are also the only primates that cover-up our natural nakedness. Actually, in a sense Morris is wrong. …
Biology 7 May 2006, 13:02
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