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Bots & Botnet: An Overview
Using thousands of zombie machines to launch distributed denial of service attack against enterprise and government internet resources by attackers is becoming dangerously common trend.
Written by: Ramneek Puri and added on May 10, 2011Automating Windows Patch Mngt: Part I
Patch management could easily be called the bane of every administrator's existence, the pain in the rear of system management, or that never ceasing headache that pounds at CIOs everywhere. ...
Document added on May 18, 2011Patch management with GFI LANguard N.S.S. & Microsoft SUS
Patch management is an essential network administration task and consists of scanning machines on the network for missing patches and deploying those patches as soon as they become available. This ...
Document added on April 9, 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, 2011Windows patch management tools
Patch management tools should identify accurately which patches are missing on each system, provide an easy means to deploy patches and provide administrative reports tracking patch status across multiple machines.
Document added on April 8, 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, 2011The Trouble With Tripwire
Even with the protection of a security perimeter, the fact remains that firewalls aren't foolproof and that potential attackers are hard at work, 24 hours a day. Furthermore, some organizations ...
Document added on May 14, 2011How ISO/IEC 17799 works in practice
ISO/IEC 17799:2000 defines 127 security controls structured under 10 major headings to enable readers to identify the particular safeguards that are appropriate to their particular business or specific area of ...
Document added on May 13, 2011Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer V1.2
MBSA Version 1.2 includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows systems. MBSA runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server ...
Document added on June 20, 2011The 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, 2011