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Real World XSS

For those of you who donÂ’t know the acronym, XSS stands for Cross-Site Scripting. It is the term that has been given to web pages that can be tricked into ...

Document added on Feb. 3, 2011

Information System Security Evaluation Team Security Insurance?

Information systems are becoming more complex and ubiquitous. Consequently, the opportunities for compromise increase. Networks once found only in relatively large offices are now found in the smallest of offices. ...

Written by: Bruce Swartz and added on Jan. 28, 2011

Keys to Successful Incident Response Teams

Incident Response Teams (IRTs) initially evolved in response to the growing threat of viruses and hacker attempts. In late 1988, a worm infected nearly 10 percent of the computers existing ...

Document added on April 15, 2011

AES: The Making of a New Encryption Standard

Most people agree that reading through a stack of governmental standards - full of proclamations, legal jargon, acronyms, and technical specifications - is quite laborious. Few information security professionals, however, ...

Written by: Mitchell C. Richards and added on May 26, 2011

Securing Remote Users VPN Access to Your Company LAN

This paper is intended to be an introduction to the Security issues you face and the solutions you can choose between, when you want to give your remote users access ...

Written by: Klavs Klavsen and added on Feb. 10, 2011

Managing Non-Login and Locked Solaris 10 Accounts

Today's entry will focus on enhancements to the passwd(1) command to better support the distinction between locked and non-login accounts. Specifically, we will be looking at the new <i>-u</i> and ...

Written by: Glenn M. Brunette, Jr. and added on March 17, 2011

Solaris 10 Account Lockout ("Three Strikes!")

The next item of my list of lesser known and/or publicized security enhancements to the Solaris 10 OS is account lockout. Account lockout is the ability of a system or ...

Written by: Glenn M. Brunette, Jr. and added on March 21, 2011

How to Limit Display of Other User&#39;s Processes in Solaris 10

This entry is a continuation of my list of lesser known and/or publicized security enhancements to the Solaris 10 OS. In this update, I will be talking about how to ...

Written by: Glenn M. Brunette, Jr. and added on June 2, 2011

Foundation for Minimal Solaris 10 Systems

The topic for this article is the Solaris 10 <a href="http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-0547/6mgbdbsmn?a=view">Reduced Networking Software Group</a> (also commonly known as the Solaris 10 Reduced Networking Meta Cluster). This software group is new ...

Written by: Glenn M. Brunette, Jr. and added on Feb. 16, 2011

Automating Solaris 10 File Integrity Checks

Well, after a short hiatus, I am back with what I hope is a very interesting and useful tip for our Solaris 10 user community. Today's tip talks about how ...

Written by: Glenn M. Brunette, Jr. and added on Jan. 18, 2011