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10 Vulnerabilities a Scanner Might Not Find
In a world where services are becoming economically more emphasized than products, those organizations seeking to remain in the products sphere survive due to differentiation alone. However, despite the billions of dollars spent on security products ...
8 Simple Rules For Securing Your Internal Network
Many companies seem to focus a great amount of attention and funds on securing the perimeter of their network while forgetting that their most valuable assets are actually inside. The current focus on perimeter security can make it very hard for an a...
A 'Bag of Tricks' Approach to Proactive Security
This paper discusses the importance of proactive verses reactive security for system administrators. It includes several tools including; Nessus, Nmap, lsof, TripWire, Logcheck, Port Sentry, Zone Alarm, and Snort. It referes to these tools as the &...
A Model for Peer Vulnerability Assessment
Once a network is set up and running, it is critically important to persistently check the network and hosts to assure they are not vulnerable to attack. Once a system goes up, it becomes a target for a worldwide community of hackers - hackers of all...
An Ettercap Primer
Ettercap is a versatile network manipulation tool. It uses its ability to easily perform man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks in a switched LAN environment as the launch pad for many of its other functions. Once ettercap has inserted itself in the middle...
An Introduction to NMAP
NMAP is an excellent, multi functional utility that should be a part of every system administrator's toolkit. Like all security tools it can be used defensively, by a network manager, to identify weaknesses that need to be corrected, or offensive...
An Overview of Remote Operating System Fingerprinting
Operating System (OS) fingerprinting is the science of determining the operating system of a remote computer on the Internet. This may be accomplished passively by sniffing network packets travelling between hosts, actively by sending carefully craft...
Auditing a print and scan server protected by the VisNetic for Workstation firewall
Print servers, generally designed to be hosted on a private network, weren't usually viewed as a threat by network administrators. The general perception was that nothing can be done on a print server, except stealing confidential data. These sys...
Auditing Borland‘s J2EE ApplicationServer: An Auditor’s Perspective
This paper documents an independent audit of an in-production business system. The focus of the audit is confined to the system's J2EE AppServer component only. The AppServer in this system is Borland's Enterprise Server, version 5.2. The pur...
Auditing Inside the Enterprise via Port Scanning & Related Tools
A number of commercial, freeware, demo, and open source tools to maintain and verify state of all systems on an network are described along with how best to use those tools to identify problems.
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