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Introducing Defense-in-Depth to a Small ISP

With the recent spate of worms and vulnerabilities, and the increasing public awareness of same, a rural Internet Service Provider (ISP) requested some assistance in assessing the security of their ...

Written by: Rodney R. Anderson and added on June 27, 2011

Bluetooth And Its Inherent Security Issues

Bluetooth technology is making a strong comeback despite much disappointment when it was first introduced in 1998. Like most newly developed defacto standards, Bluetooth was plagued by delayed rollouts, design ...

Written by: Tu C. Niem and added on May 7, 2011

Snort Installation and Basic Usage Part One

Computer Intrusions are on the rise. Whether it's script kids trying to deface a web page or a calculated attacker trying to steal credit card information, sites must equip themselves ...

Document added on Feb. 5, 2011

A day in the life of Directory Traversal and IIS

The exploitation of this vulnerability could have been completely avoided if all system administrators applied a patch in August of 2000. However, they did not, and due to this, many ...

Document added on May 6, 2011

eCommerce and Defense in Depth

There has never been a time when so many businesses have offered their products over the Internet as now. No matter what your company is selling or who your customers ...

Document added on June 20, 2011

Choosing The Best Firewall

Due to the phenomenal growth of the Internet in the last couple of year's companies find it hard to operate without a presence on the Internet. This means that companies ...

Written by: Gerhard Cronje and added on May 6, 2011

Crossing the Line: Ethics for the Security Professional

We often hear of the “hacker”A who breaks into a system and steals credit card numbers, releases a destructive worm or maybe defaces a website. What do you think about ...

Document added on Jan. 29, 2011

The Brazilian Connection: Brazilian Defacement Groups Stake their Claim

On June 22, 2001, Prime Suspectz, a Brazilian hacker group, defaced four Microsoft sites in less than one hour. According to one of the pages they defaced, three of the ...

Written by: Michael Poor and added on April 20, 2011

The China Syndrome

On April 1, 2001 a Chinese fighter jet collided with a U.S. Navy EP-3 surveillance plane off China's coast, resulting in the death of a Chinese pilot and the detention ...

Written by: Charles Bacon and added on Jan. 13, 2011

The Easily Recoverable CD-ROM Booted Linux Internet Server: A How-To

The purpose of this paper is to detail the general steps to create a read-only Internet Server providing DNS and static web pages (bind and Apache). While the capabilities of ...

Document added on Jan. 1, 2011