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Excite@Home IP flaw exposed  07 August 2000 
Source: ZDNet - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Excite@Home -- an Internet service run in Australia by Cable & Wireless Optus -- has warned it will take action against anybody who attempts utilise an IP vulnerability that allows a single user to block up to 127 IP addresses, effectively . . .
 
Tools of the Trade: nmap  02 August 2000 
Source: LinuxGazette - Posted by Nick DeClario   
The intent of this article is to familiarize the reader with the network scanner nmap. As Lamont Grandquist (an nmap contributor/developer) points out, nmap does three things: It will ping a number of hosts to determine if they are up. It . . .
 
Users fail to see full security picture  01 August 2000 
Source: Silicon.com - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Businesses are still not ready to take an enterprise approach to security, according to leading vendor Network Associates (NAI). Despite consolidation in the market - including the $975m buy-out of security firm Axent by anti-virus specialist Symantec last week - NAI . . .
 
Digital Signatures and Stolen Automobiles  28 July 2000 
Source: Security Portal - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Digital signatures require extensive safekeeping. Unlike passwords, you can't store them in your head. The number sequence is too long. You have to store the signature on a smart card, keep it on your hard drive, or carry it around on . . .
 
Security Management and "Reusable Infrastructure" are Key  27 July 2000 
Source: IT World - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
The enterprise of the future will need to have a flexible, general purpose infrastructure in order to survive in an economy increasingly defined by electronic commerce, according to Jamie Lewis, CEO of The Burton Group Corp. . . .
 
Denial-of-service threat gets engineering community's attention  27 July 2000 
Source: NWF - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
The Internet engineering community is developing technology that promises to minimize the damage these hacker attacks cause by quickly identifying the computer systems where they originate. . . .
 
We're still getting security wrong  26 July 2000 
Source: IT-Director - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Worries about security, and justified ones at that, could still stop the eCommerce bandwagon in its tracks, it seems. The recent revelation of a security loophole in MS Outlook has been followed by a report from IDC asserting that corporate Europe . . .
 
Denial-of-service threat gets IETF's attention  24 July 2000 
Source: NW Fusion - Posted by Dave Wreski   
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) last week launched a working group to develop ICMP Traceback Messages, which would let network managers discover the path that packets take through the Internet. Nicknamed itrace, the new working group plans to submit a . . .
 
Linux Networking: Using Ipchains  24 July 2000 
Source: LinuxPlanet - Posted by Dave Wreski   
The article examines the basic concepts pertaining to routing, network address translation (NAT), firewalls, and a program called ipchains. Individual sections address each concept. The last section combines the basics into a sample configuration for linking a local network to . . .
 
Secure Directory Services for E-Business, Part 3  19 July 2000 
Source: InfoSecurityMag - Posted by Dave Wreski   
The threats to a directory are many, and if appropriate safeguards are not maintained, a company may not even know when a directory has been compromised. The primary threats include theft, destruction and alteration of information (including user privileges). The potential . . .
 
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