4040-840 Security and Trust

all, section 3.11.

3.11. Generic Security Attacks

1.   request memory pages
2.   Try illegal system calls (or illegal arguments)
3.   Start logging and hit DEL ...
4.   Spoof user by writing programs like: login
5.   Look for manuals that say do not ...
6.   Trapdoor
7.   Money.

Passwords

Don't use your:

: name
car plate number
friends name
telephone number
...

Used instead: When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won.

Wth'sdWtb'slaw

Please see also here http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html and here and here.