All pages tagged with proxy
Web Security Appliance With Apache and mod_security
As more and more attacks are being carried out over the HTTP layer there is a growing need to push the envelope and bring Web security to new levels. Most ...
Document added on Jan. 4, 2011The Enemy Within: Firewalls and Backdoors
As a modern IT professional you've done all the right things to keep the "bad guys" out: you protected your network with firewalls and/or proxies, deployed anti-virus software across all ...
Written by: Bob Rudis and Phil Kostenbader and added on Feb. 12, 2011HTTP Tunnels Though Proxies
This paper discusses the security ramifications of web proxies, including attack methods, authentication, and hardening. Hyper Text Transport Protocol or HTTP is the protocol used for web traffic. Its specification ...
Document added on March 3, 2011Issues When Using IPsec Over Geosynchronous Satellite Links
This paper describes the salient points of TCP over satellite links, performance enhancing proxies, IPsec, and the issues with the combined use of these technologies. A tradeoff solution and its ...
Written by: Gregory Totsline and added on Jan. 19, 2011One Fish, Twofish, Red Fish, Blowfish A History of Cryptography and it's Application in Society
On the sixth day, God created living creatures of every kind; and on the seventh day he rested. Arguably millions of years later, approximately 2000 BC, cryptography was created; though ...
Written by: Joseph Kasten and added on Jan. 30, 2011Implementing NAT on Checkpoint Firewall-1
Network Address Translation, or NAT as commonly referred to, was initially designed as a temporary fix, before IPv6, to allow additional workstations to access routable networks across the Internet, without ...
Written by: Unknown and added on March 17, 2011Firewall Basics
<font size="3"><b>What is a firewall?</b></font><br> A firewall is a gateway that restricts and controls the flow of traffic between networks, typically between an internal corporate network and the Internet. Firewalls ...
Written by: Manu Arian and added on Jan. 10, 2011A Holistic Approach to Incident Prevention
<b>Introduction</b><br><br> As IT Security professionals struggle to respond to the increasing threats posed against their networks, too often, the approach taken consists of various silo projects aimed at eliminating one ...
Written by: Stephen Hendrie and added on Jan. 16, 2011Mydoom, Doomjuice, Win32/Doomjuice
<font size="3"><b>Abstract</b></font><br><i> On February 1, 2004, the Web site of the SCO Group on that weekend was hit by a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack generated by the ...
Written by: Hang Chau and added on Jan. 25, 2011So Many Worms, So Little Time
Let's face it; the Internet is a dangerous place, and it's not getting any better. <a href="http://www.us-cert.gov/federal/statistics/">Statistics</a> show a rapid increase in the rate of Internet-based attacks. The ability of ...
Written by: Randy Nash and added on Feb. 12, 2011