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Identity Theft on the Web Not a day goes by without hearing about someone who has had some sort of identity theft related incident. Most of these incidents were possible because mail to the victim was intercepted or the thief was able to get enough personal information to create a new account, change the address or capture a userID and password. While there are no easy ways to avoid incidents associated with mail and opening accounts there is some relief available to help you protect your interests on the Web. This paper describes a way to help you decide whether you want to do business with or provide personal information to a site.
Yoram Nissenboim,
07/04/2005
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An Introduction to the Open Source and the GPL Open Source Software (OSS) is software who's source code is made “Open” for all to freely see, distribute and modify. This means that there could potentially be thousands of programmers from all over the world working together to write a particular program. OSS has traditionally been written by volunteers, however the software industry is becoming increasingly involved in contributing to OSS and releasing their own software into Open Source.
Colin Sauze ,
06/10/2005
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Internet Security - Safeguarding the Weakest Links This article addresses issues of exploitations to innocent users. Insider crimes by staff with intention to steal information, mishandling of information due to ignorance, or destroying information out of rage towards boss or employer is not discussed here. Such problems are better addressed by policies, procedures, and user education.
YY Ngai,
04/16/2005
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New Years Security Resolutions Happy New Year, I know many of you have received some nice to tech toys for Christmas recently, so its time to talk about making them secure and keeping them that way. I know many of you have new computers in your homes, but how many of you realize that this computer is already vulnerable? How can this be? How can a brand new computer be vulnerable?
Randy M. Nash,
01/17/2005
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A Holistic Approach to Incident Prevention 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 potential threat at a time. This often leads to a very disjointed security architecture that can leave the security professional no better off then when he started, with just a lot less money in the budget. The goal of this paper is to introduce the various components of Incident Detection and Prevention architecture and to show how taking a step back and looking at the big picture you can best leverage various solutions to protect your network. The term incident prevention in this paper is used to describe the complete array of technology used to avoid a compromise and is different from the concept of Intrusion Prevention.
By Stephen Hendrie, 08/24/2004
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Computer Security Basics Computer security is the process of preventing and detecting unauthorized use of your computer. Prevention measures help you to stop unauthorized users (also known as "intruders") from accessing any part of your computer system. Detection helps you to determine whether or not someone attempted to break into your system, if they were successful, and what they may have done.
Manu Arian,
07/27/2004
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TCP/IP Skills for Security Analysts (Part 2) In the first part of this article series we covered the skills that a network security analyst should have in order to do their job properly. Now, this second part of the article will put these skills into context by simulating a "day in the life" of a network security analyst. I will give real life examples of why you need the specific skills that I noted earlier. Following this will be a brief discussion on the value of certification, and some of the ones I would suggest. Wrapping up the article will be some of the advanced skill sets that an analyst should strive for, and an indication of the small list of places one can go to learn them due to their complexity.
By Don Parker, 07/13/2004
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TCP/IP Skills Required for Security Analysts Within the confines of this article the skills that I personally believe one should have at a minimum will be listed and reviewed briefly to give you an idea of what those skills are.
By Don Parker, 07/13/2004
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Organizational Information Security from Scratch - A Guarantee for Doing It Right The need to have a comprehensive, verifiable information security management strategy in place has grown significantly in recent years. The most compelling reason is the increasing likelihood that your organization may find itself in a courtroom defending its security practices against the expected growth in liability lawsuits.
By Patrick Jones, 07/08/2004
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Danger Within According to a recent survey conducted by NSC technology fewer than 10 percent of break-ins to IT systems come from external hackers[2]. This statistic though alarming mentions break-ins. The threats to a network come in many forms - from disgruntled employees, corporate espionage, lax system administrators, faulty products and poorly educated users.
By Dennis Spalding, 05/11/2004
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