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Featured Feedback: Shaun Colley - April 2004 winner

Thanks for such a great project and competition in general. I believe this encourages hackers and security-enthusiasts alike to write interesting and technical papers for the entire community, whatever side of the fence you're on.

Past Winners: 2005

Month	Writer	Title

April	Gunter Ollmann	Anti Brute Force Resource Metering
April	Gunter Ollmann	Best Security Practice: Host Naming and URL Conventions

March	Joanna Rutkowska	The Implementation of Passive Covert Channels in the Linux Kernel
March

February	Patrick Harper	Snort/Base Install Manual for Fedora Core 3
February

January	J-C Cuenod	A solution against software piracy and IT sabotage
January	Shreeraj	WebServices Security

Past Winners: 2004

Month	Writer	Title

December	Debasis Mohanty	Anti-Virus Evasion Techniques and Countermeasures
December	Diego Gonzalez Gomez	Installing a Virtual Honeywall using VMware

November	Ayan Chakrabarti	An Introduction to Linux Kernel Backdoors
November	Charles Gillman	LMCrack

October
October

September	Gunter Ollmann	The Phishing Guide
September	Mohammad Heidari	IPv6 Security Considerations

August	Bob Radvanovsky	I Know Something You Don't Know (Email Secrets)
August	Stijn Huyghe	OpenVPN 101: Introduction to OpenVPN

July	Stephen de Vries	Securing Mac OS X
July	Angelo Rosiello	Shadow Software Attack

June	Yahya Mehdizadeh	IT Security Event Management
June	K.Duraiswamy & R.Uma Rani	Security Through Obscurity

May	Yves Younan	An Overview of Common Programming Security Vulnerabilities and Possible Solutions
May	Gary Hinson	Proposing the role of Governance Director

April	Melissa Guenther	Evaluation, Metrics and Measurement for Security Awareness
April	Shaun Colley	Crafting Symlinks for Fun and Profit

March	Carter Schoenberg	Information Security & Negligence - Targeting the C-Class
March	Roberto Larcher	Predictability of Windows DNS resolver

February	Davide Libenzi	Guarded Memory Move (GMM) Buffer Overflow Detection And Analysis
February	Mike Lee & Brian Hitchen	Identity Theft - The Real Cause

January	Daniel Hodson	Adjacent Overwrite BUG
January	Luca Deri	Improving Passive Packet Capture: Beyond Device Polling

Past Winners: 2003

Month	Writer	Title

December	Peter Winter Smith	Exploitation of Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities Under Windows XP
December	Gavin Zuchlinski	The Anatomy of Cross Site Scripting

November	Gary Hinson	Human Factors in Information Security
November	Daniel B. Cid	Detecting Intrusions with your Firewall Log and OsHids

October	David Barroso Berrueta	The Rise of the Spammers
October	Joe Bowling	The Future of IDS

September	Patrick Harper	Snort Install Manual
September	Shahin Shadfar	Smart Cards as Secure Corporate Badge?

August	Robert Timko	Driftnet on WEPed wireless networks HOWTO
August	Simon Castro	Covert Channel and Tunneling over the HTTP protocol detection