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Is the CISSP Becoming Watered Down?

The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) has quickly become one of the most talked about certifications in the IT industry. Some may say it's approaching the popularity of Cisco's ...

Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on Feb. 12, 2011

Low- 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, 2011

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

Showcode.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, 2011

SuperScan 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, 2011

Information Security as a Process

Information security is a maturing field that doesn't have many of the processes that other areas of IT take for granted. In this article we will explore one of the ...

Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on Jan. 25, 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

Armoring Solaris: II

Firewalls are one of the fastest growing technical tools in the field of information security. However, a firewall is only as secure as the operating system it resides upon. This ...

Document added on June 14, 2011

Intrusion Detection for Check Point FireWall-1

Firewalls do a good job of keeping the bad guys out. But wouldn't it be nice to know when the bad guys are knocking on your door? This article covers ...

Written by: Lance Spitzner and added on March 3, 2011

Certifications, Padding the E-mail Signature

<br>Its one of the most highly contested issues in our field. Some people love them, some people hate them, but everyone has passionate theories about their validity. </br><br></br><br>There seems to ...

Written by: Mitchell Rowton and added on Jan. 1, 2011