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Mastering the Challenges of Security Risks from P2P Platforms Like Napster

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Napster, Gnutella, IM and other peer-to-peer applications are the "flavor of the week." But if you're not careful, these programs could be used to undermine your network security. P2P applications are hot nowadays because they allow users to share the massive . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 20, 2001

Centralized Logging With SCP: A Secure Solution For Linux

A few months ago, I challenged myself with a problem. I wanted to implement centralized system logging that would securely store logs in a location that would prevent any tampering or mischief. It was necessary to find a solution that fit . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 14, 2001

Effective Management Strategies for Network Security Against Threats

Networks dominate today's computing landscape and commercial technical protection is lagging behind attack technology. As a result, protection program success depends more on prudent management decisions than on the selection of technical safeguards. Managing Network Security takes a management view of . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 13, 2001

Secure Internet Gateway Setup With NAT For Multiple Machines

If you have several machines in your home or office network, make the other machines use it. With NAT (or "IP masquerading", as it's called in another universe), multiple machine can be hidden behind one gateway machine. The machines behind the . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 13, 2001

Effective Strategies For Network And E-Commerce Security Management

Security experts say site managers and enterprise e-commerce managers can take many steps to ward off or minimize the effects of these attacks. But to choke them off at the source and then identify the perpetrators "would take . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 12, 2001

Brute-Force Tool CrackWhore: Enhancing Password Sharing Among Users

A brute-force password cracking program called CrackWhore written by our Dutch friend SubReality turns out to be clever for more than its name. The author has rigged it with a phone-home feature (which users can disable) that sends the password combos . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 07, 2001

SSH 1.5 Advisory: Session Key Recovery Threat Assessment

The CORE SDI team has found a vulnerability in the SSH 1.5 protocol that allows an attacker to retrieve the session key, which could then allow them to decrypt network traffic. This attack was discovered by David Bleichenbacher. . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 07, 2001

DDoS Attack Analysis: Effects on Leading Digital Service Providers

The DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack that knocked out Yahoo used a host of hacked servers--dubbed "slaves" or "zombies"--to inundate a Web site or Internet-connected server with data, effectively stopping the server's ability to respond to Web page requests or . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 07, 2001

Red Hat: Security Advisory on ChiliSoft ASP Inherited Mode Issue

ASP (Active Server Pages) are a technology initially developed by Microsoft to tackle the "dynamic content on the web" problem. Chili!Soft is a company that has released a piece of software called Chili!Soft ASP that makes ASP functionality available on . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 07, 2001

Exploring Internet Security Flaws And Their Potential Threats

An invisible snoop may be virtually peering over your shoulder right now. Computer crackers can read your e-mail, collect your credit card data, intercept the information you send wirelessly or pry into your private files.. . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 06, 2001

Small Business Case Study: Cost-Effective VPN for Remote Offices

It was a common enough problem for a small business: AMT Asset Management, a Marlboro, New Jersey-based brokerage with six employees, needed a way to connect its Boca Raton, Florida office to headquarters. The goal was to provide the smaller office . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 06, 2001

Challenges of Wireless LAN Security in Enterprise Environments

The idea of a wireless LAN has always had a certain charm -- suggesting an end to the expense and inconvenience of running cable, and to users' whining about being tethered to their desks. And now, with wireless standards firming up, . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 05, 2001

Analyzing DoS Attacks Impacting Leading Internet Platforms

Despite a series of costly attacks that have shut down some of the Internet's best-known sites over the past year, experts say it is still easier to launch an assault like the one that stunned Microsoft this week, than it is . . .

Anthony Pell
Feb 01, 2001

Comprehensive Tripwire Installation for Intrusion Detection Systems

In the first part of this series we had a laid the ground work that took us a step further towards understanding the necessity of a full fledged Intrusion Detection system (IDS). A good policy is to mix and match the . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 31, 2001

BIND High-Risk Alert: DNS Vulnerabilities and Data Breaches Ahead

A vulnerability recently discovered in the software used in most DNS (Domain Name System) servers may be the most serious security threat yet found on the Internet, allowing hackers effectively to shut down ISPs and corporate Web servers as well as . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 31, 2001

CERT Advisory on BIND: 4 Critical Threats to DNS Performance

CERT's advisory is the latest in a long series of problems both with the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (or BIND) server software and the DNS system in general. CERT alone has issued 12 advisories about exploits or vulnerabilities in the software . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 30, 2001

E-Business Strategies: Addressing Cyber Threats for Business Success

Ebusiness offers tremendous opportunities for reducing costs and improving revenues. However, along with the advantages it also brings new threats and liabilities that leave businesses highly vulnerable to cyber attack and fraud. Business today must be concerned with the impact of . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 30, 2001

Effective Intrusion Detection for NIX Network Administration

As a System administrator of a *NIX network it is your responsibility to ensure that your *NIX machines are running in perfect condition and to see to it that valuable customers and transactions are not lost, by minimizing the down time. . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 30, 2001

Explore OS Identification with System Fingerprinting Techniques

When someone with half a clue decides to attack your system, they will first try to identify the operating system. Not every attack proceeds this way -- script kiddies will probe huge address spaces looking for any system with a . . .

Anthony Pell
Jan 29, 2001

DNS BIND: Critical Advisory on Threat to Server Security

Anthony Pell
Jan 29, 2001

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