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Will Your Network Pass a Security Audit?
It is a well-known fact that in the Internet-connected world network perimeter vulnerabilities do exist that allow unauthorized individuals access to networks and provide the ability to disrupt business continuance. ...
Written by: Michael Bruck and added on June 22, 2011Is 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, 2011Dynamic Honeypots
For the past eight months we have been discussing what honeypots are, their value, their different types, and how they can be used and deployed. Today we will do something ...
Document added on Jan. 13, 2011The Threat of Social Engineering and Your Defense Against It
There are several methods that the malicious individual can use to try to breach the information security defenses of an organization. The human approach, often termed Social Engineering, is one ...
Written by: Radha Gulati and added on June 11, 2011Building a secure web server using Apache and OpenSSL
Using Apache, mod-ssl and OpenSSL we can create a secure server quickly and easily. We also no longer have to worry in the U.S. about the RSA encryption. Prior to ...
Document added on March 20, 2011A Beginner's Guide to the Internet
The Internet has become an integral part of daily life. Unfortunately, while many people have come to rely on it, most have little or no understanding of how the Internet ...
Written by: Stephen Entwisle and added on May 12, 2011Hardening Windows 2000 in the Enterprise Part One:
In Windows 2000, this has all changed. At the risk of receiving some "what are you smoking?" emails, I will go so far as to say that not only is ...
Document added on April 16, 2011Exploitation - Returning into libc
The intention of this article is not to teach you the in's and out's of buffer overflows, but to explain in a little detail another technique used to execute arbitrary ...
Written by: Shaun Colley and added on June 10, 2011The Dark Side of NTFS (MicrosoftÂ’s Scarlet Letter)
Admins & users know very little about a feature of the NTFS file system called 'alternate data streams' (ADSs). This paper describes in detail how ADSs are created and manipulated, ...
Written by: H. Carvey and added on Feb. 28, 2011Web 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, 2011