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The security risks and ways to decrease vulnerabilities in a 802.11b wireless environment
<font size="3"><b>Introduction</b></font><br></br><br> This document explains topics relating to wireless networks. The main topics discussed include, what type of vulnerabilities exist today in 802.11 networks and ways that you can help ...
Written by: Richard Johnson and added on May 6, 2011Firewall Designs
A chapter from "Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF, second edition". Discusses possible firewall configurations that pf can be used in. Also covers basic hardward and software firewalls, firewall policy, ...
Written by: Jacek Artymiak and added on May 12, 2011The Internal Threat to Security Or Users Can Really Mess Things Up
On one hand, the media is replete with reports of hackers exploiting various weaknesses in order to gain access to a network and the data it houses. Most, if not ...
Written by: Charles Rhodes and added on March 7, 2011Linux Kernel 2.5/2.6 using KAME-tools
This chapter explains the usage of the native IPsec stack of the Linux Kernel ≥2.5.47 and 2.6.*. The installation and the configuration of this IPsec stack differs greatly from FreeS/WAN ...
Written by: Unknown and added on Jan. 2, 2011Federal Information Security Management Act
Overview of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002. The purposes of this subchapter are to (1) provide a comprehensive framework for ensuring the effectiveness of information security ...
Written by: U.S Congress and added on March 4, 2011OMB Circular No. A-130
Circular No A-130 provides uniform government-wide information resources management policies as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980. As amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 USC ...
Written by: U.S Office of Management & Budget and added on June 15, 2011LAMP based Security for SME
A project report which advocates LAMP (Linux OS + Apache Web-server + MySQL DBMS + PHP scripting) from its security point of view. The focus of the report is mainly ...
Written by: Sameer Niphadkar and added on Jan. 13, 2011Ethereal and NMap
This is the first in a series of excerpts from chapter 7 of Incident Response, published in August 2001 by O'Reilly. This excerpt covers two tools used by hackers to ...
Written by: Richard Forno and Kenneth R. van Wyk and added on March 14, 2011Telnet Based Attacks
This paper examines attacks developed over the years using the Telnet service. That examination begins with a bit of history. The Telnet protocol was first comprehensively defined by Postel in ...
Written by: Paul Gurgul and added on April 7, 2011