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IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
David Schneider |
Fresh Phish How a recently discovered flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System makes it easy for scammers to lure you to fake Web sites   |
PC World
February 2006
Scott Spanbauer |
Knowledge Is Power: Your Essential Internet Glossary Learn a few key terms to become more Internet savvy |
PC Magazine
December 22, 2004
Konstantinos Karagiannis |
Sniffing out Secrets Whether you're interacting with someone in real time through an insecure protocol like instant messaging or sending sensitive information in an e-mail, your data can pass the virtual noses of many Ethernet interfaces. And some of those noses are sniffing. |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2004
Sheryl Canter |
You Need a (Properly Configured) Firewall Firewalls protect you in ways that antivirus software cannot, but only if they're set up correctly. |
PC Magazine
April 19, 2006 |
A Disconnecting Wireless Network Allocate the IP address permanently from the PC to avoid constant repairing of a connection after a computer has been in sleep mode. |
T.H.E. Journal
December 2002
Vincent Weafer |
Blended Threats - A Deadly Duo of Hackers and Mobile Code Computer security threats evolve and require defenses that also evolve. For any school or classroom that uses computer technology, Internet-borne security threats are evolving and becoming increasingly dangerous. |
RootPrompt.org
August 30, 2000 |
A Stateful Inspection of FireWall-1 An analysis of Check Point FireWall-1 vulnerabilities resulting from protocol design flaws, problems in stateful inspection, common or default misconfigurations, and minor implementation errors discovered over the past few months in the lab, and verified in real-world penetration tests. |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2005
Craig Ellison |
Dealing with Dynamic IP Addresses For some applications, a changing IP address just won't do. Dynamic DNS solves the problem. |
Information Today
June 2005
Phillip Britt |
No Phishing Allowed Today, the biggest threats for companies and consumers are the new crimes with funny-looking names: phishing, pharming, and spim. |
CIO
October 1, 2005
Ben Worthen |
The Sky Really Is Falling Ed Lazowska, cochairman of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, says that there is a looming security crisis, and the government, vendors and CIOs aren't doing enough to stop it. |
PC Magazine
August 3, 2004 |
Keep Your PC Safe Learn to wield your firewall, antivirus, and antispyware tools expertly; don't give up your PC without a fight. |
PC World
September 1, 2000
Jeff Sengstack |
Make Your PC Hacker-Proof Our test of six personal firewalls finds the best ones for keeping uninvited guests out of your office or home system. |
PC World
August 2006
Andrew Brandt |
The 10 Biggest Security Risks You Don't Know About Hackers, scammers, and identity thieves are constantly coming up with new ways to attack your PC and your privacy. Here are the newest perils and how to foil them. |
PC World
April 2, 2001
Kim Zetter & Andrew Brandt |
How Hackers Hack The tricks hackers use, and what you can do to foil them... |
Searcher
October 2007
Paul S. Piper |
Phish Pharming: A Newer, More Profitable Aquaculture Detecting e-mail scams. |
PC Magazine
February 2, 2005
Robert P. Lipschutz |
Lock Down Your Network When it comes to security, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) often find themselves in an uncomfortable position. They share many of the same security fears that threaten multinational enterprises. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
Paul V. Mockapetris |
Telephony's Next Act Moving from circuit-switched networks to the Internet will be the biggest challenge phone systems have ever faced. If issues aren't faced, Internet users are likely to face higher costs and decreased quality of service, delayed call connections, and dropped calls. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006
Brian Krebs |
It's 10 PM. Do You Know Where Your Identity Is? Global identity thieves may know their way around your computer better than you do. Learn how to protect yourself in the scary new world of zombies, RATs, Trojan horses and evil twins. |
PC Magazine
February 15, 2006
Matthew D. Sarrel |
Business Body Armor All sorts of enemy combatants want to penetrate your network, but you can turn attacks aside with the right combo of hardware and tactics. |
PC Magazine
February 15, 2006
Robert Lemos |
Caught by Phish Falling prey to online identity theft takes only a few minutes, but the cost can be high. |
InternetNews
November 19, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Hackers Abuse Domain-Name Trust Cyber criminals have devised a new twist on the misspelled domain-name trick by hijacking IP addresses. |
PC World
January 2001
Alan Stafford |
Warp Speed Web Access: Sharing the Bandwidth Broadband routers give your network a protected connection to the Internet... |
Macworld
May 2001
Brett Larson |
Broadband Routers Affordable devices provide easy Internet sharing and network security... |
PC World
October 23, 2002
Paul Roberts |
Net Attack Could Be First of Many, Experts Warn Future attacks could succeed in bringing down the Internet and are surprisingly simple to launch, security insiders say. |
Home Toys
August 2004
John Schubert |
Routers Versus Switches The simple solution is to determine if the customer is using an ISP without running any servers. If so, the installation will be easy, and the customer can be sold a router. If the customer needs more ports than are available on a single router, use switches. |
PC Magazine
January 12, 2005
Craig Ellison |
Making a Webcam Visible My office contains multiple computers networked together with a wired LAN. We have installed a "Networked Home Security Camera" that uses its own IP address. Any computer within the network can see what the camera sees. |
InternetNews
June 22, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
Buffer Overflows in ISC's DHCP Users at risk of denial-of-service or code execution attacks. |
InternetNews
June 16, 2005
Tim Gray |
Browser-Based Attacks on the Rise Browser-based attacks such as pharming and phishing scams are now the fastest-growing security threat on the Internet. |
PC World
March 11, 2001 |
Top 5 Firewall Utilities Protect your PC from suspicious activity on your network or the Internet... |
National Defense
June 2013
Tim Larkins |
Threats and Opportunities Growing in Cybersecurity The federal government will spend about $10 billion on cybersecurity in fiscal year 2013. That number could grow to $13 billion in fiscal year 2014. |
InternetNews
March 10, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Shores Up DNS DNS flaws are rated by Microsoft as likely to be exploited. |
Wall Street & Technology
September 17, 2007
Melanie Rodier |
Online Security Attacks Against Financial Institutions Rapidly Increasing Gone are the days of teenagers sitting in their parents' basements trying to hack into a company's computer system just to prove a point. Today, hacking is an organized crime enterprise -- and it is bigger than ever. |
InternetNews
May 9, 2005
Tim Gray |
Google Back After Going Black Internet search giant Google's engine sputtered briefly over the weekend when its Web site blacked-out, leaving millions of visitors looking for answers elsewhere. |
Linux Journal
April 1, 2002
Alan Zeichick |
Product Review: SnapGear Lite An Inexpensive Home Office/Small Office Firewall and VPN Client... |
Linux Journal
April 2000
Nalneesh Gaur |
Assessing the Security of Your Web Applications An outline of key test areas to identify security issues in a web application and provide measures to minimize them. |
Insurance & Technology
May 14, 2005
Michael Cohn |
7 Myths About Network Security While hacker tools are growing more sophisticated and automated, many organizations have a false sense of security about their own data and networks. Take a look at these security myths to see if your data is as secure as you think it is. |
PC World
January 2005
Kirk Steers |
Keep Your PC Hidden From the Bad Guys Guard your networked computers with a router's hardware firewall... Get your own router... What's the second thing you do when you think your PC has a hardware problem?... |
Wired
November 24, 2008
Joshua Davis |
Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web Security specialists have been revamping and strengthening DNS for more than two decades. But buried beneath all this tinkering, Dan Kaminsky had just discovered a vestige of that original helpful and trusting program. |
CIO
February 1, 2003
Scott Berinato |
Threats Won't Make the Sky Fall CIOs and other IT executives would be wise to remain focused on what a specific threat means to their organization so that they can address any vulnerabilities that may exist. You don't need to hear the words of a terror threat to sustain such a focus. |
InternetNews
March 25, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Phishing Attacks Jump 26% Phishers and pharmers up attacks, perhaps in response to decreased results. |
InternetNews
February 25, 2004
Michael Singer |
Microsoft Proposes Caller ID for E-Mail In his quest to kill spam, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates Tuesday appealed to security leadership, asking them to adopt his fledgling "Caller ID for E-mail" program. |
InternetNews
February 24, 2004
Colin Haley |
Will Lax Security Trip IP Telephony? Like a kick returner outrunning his blockers, the advance of corporate Internet Protocol telephony is getting ahead of its security measures, but could be heading for a paralyzing hit, according to new research report. |
PC Magazine
December 8, 2009
Neil J. Rubenking |
GoTrusted Secure Tunnel 2 GoTrusted encrypts your Internet connection so you can safely connect even from a non-secure network; it also hides your IP address for anonymous surfing. |
PC World
April 2004
Scott Spanbauer |
Lock Down Your PC Hackers. Spammers. Even rogue coworkers and employees. How can you keep the bad guys out and the good data in? Safeguard your system's perimeter with these 29 beyond-the-basics security steps. |
Linux Journal
January 19, 2006
Dean Wilson |
An Introduction to DHCP Confused about what DHCP offers and how you can take advantage of it on your Linux system? Here are some tips and pointers. |
InternetNews
September 10, 2004
Michael Singer |
Paul Mockapetris, Chairman, Nominum The Domain Name System inventor discusses the future of distributed systems, VoIP and his theory of 'market-tecture.' |
InternetNews
April 13, 2004
Sharon Gaudin |
Browser-based Attacks 'Surging' Virulent viruses and worms aren't the only things to watch out for. Security analysts say browser-based attacks are escalating in frequency and damage. And now a new study backs up the warnings. |
PC Magazine
April 6, 2005
David A. Karp |
Control a PC for Free With a remote control solution, you sit in front of one computer and view the desktop of another computer in a window. |
CIO
August 1, 2005
Grant Gross |
VoIP Security Debate Heats Up Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony and malicious software for mobile devices are among the most-hyped IT security threats, according to Gartner. |
Home Toys
June 2004 |
Internet based Monitoring using low cost solutions. Communications tools can be applied to the home alerting of water in the basement, heating or cooling system failures, Web Cam images, open doors, or windows, and complete alarm systems interfaces. |
