Securing a Wireless Network
Last week, we talked about setting up your wireless network and the options that are available. For the home, home-office, or small office, wireless is a great alternative which offers a lot of benefits and flexibility.
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> IT > Security
Date: 2003-08-20
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Using Web DAV with IIS 5.0
The basic purpose of WebDAV is to provide file I/O through HTTP. This permits your to load, edit, delete, create subdirectories, and basically manage files located on the Web Server from the client desktop. Of course, MS has several products that already permit remote manipulation of remote websites.
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> IT > Security
Date: 2003-08-14
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Saving Our Bacon: Snort Security Holes and Strategies for Safe Network Monitoring
In April, a CERT advisory announced the discovery of two separate buffer-overflow vulnerabilities in Snort, a popular security-monitoring tool used for detecting suspicious network activities. This development was disturbing and ironic: system administrators install and run programs like Snort to improve security, and don't often consider the possibility that the tools themselves might be attacked and exploited to create entirely new security holes. It's therefore important to understand precisely what happened here, especially since the same mechanisms used against Snort could threaten other security tools.
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> IT > Security
Date: 2003-08-07
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Risk Metrics Needed for IT Security
Business leaders worldwide are becoming more aware of the importance of assuring the security of information assets. Information-security issues are among the hottest topics being addressed in trade media for organizational governance, executive, financial, audit, and IT leaders. Conferences covering the latest information-security issues, tools, and problems abound in both the public and private sectors.
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> IT > Security
Date: 2003-08-05
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