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The Oversight of Physical Security and Contingency Planning
In today's ever-changing world of information assurance and network security, it can become extremely difficult to keep up on the latest vulnerabilities,viruses, patches, trends, technology, hacker behaviors and activity. It's ...
Written by: Andy S. Krupa and added on Jan. 1, 2011Using a layered security approach to achieve network integrity
It's becoming increasingly clear that the current model for network security -- defend the perimeter and patch, patch, patch -- has some serious shortcomings. First, relying on signature files and ...
Written by: Eric Ogren and added on March 6, 2011Patching Windows 2000
Installing Service Packs and hotfixes is an ongoing challenge. Each time you install a file or service from the original installation media, you must re-apply the Service Pack and Hotfixes ...
Document added on Feb. 25, 2011An Evening with Berferd
On 7 January 1991 a cracker, believing he had discovered the famous sendmail DEBUG hole in our Internet gateway machine, attempted to obtain a copy of our password file. I ...
Document added on March 14, 2011Low- to No-Cost Methods to Review Webserver Logs for Potential Security Issues
This is a description of the inexpensive methods I devised to extract and tally records of interest in order to analyze webserver logfiles for potential security problems, compromise attempts, while ...
Document added on Feb. 17, 2011Showcode.asp - A lesson in Internet Security
It all started back on May 7, 1999. Weld Pond of L0pht Heavy Industries issued a security advisory with the title "Web users can view ASP source code and other ...
Document added on June 15, 2011SNORT Download Center
Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can ...
Document added on March 30, 2011SuperScan Download
A powerful connect-based TCP port scanner, pinger and hostname resolver. Multithreaded and asynchronous techniques make this program extremely fast and versatile. Perform ping scans and port scans using any IP ...
Document added on Jan. 11, 2011Identify Intrusions with Microsoft Proxy Server, Web Proxy Service and WinSock Proxy Service Log Files
This is a guide on how to identify intrusions using Microsoft's Proxy Server log files. MS Proxy Server is an extensible firewall that provides passive defense against intrusions and functions ...
Written by: Saundra Coward and added on April 20, 2011Secure File Deletion, Fact or Fiction?
This paper will deal with how and where some of these files are created and how to securely remove them from a system. Microsoft Windows operating systems and associated applications ...
Written by: Rick Maybury and added on May 15, 2011