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Internet giants confer on denial-of-service attacks

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A coalition of Internet companies formed in the wake of February's devastating denial-of-service attacks will offer a glimpse today of the work they've done to stop a repeat of the assault that brought down key sites across the Web, including those run by giants Amazon.com and Yahoo.. . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 26, 2000

New software 'shreds' e-mail

Law-enforcement authorities are troubled by a new kind of software being released Wednesday that sounds like something out of Mission: Impossible. It can make e-mail messages self-destruct in 10 seconds.. . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 21, 2000

Network ICE Intros Open Source Carnivore Alternative

Network ICE has released the source code to Altivore, its new e-mail sniffing program. Greg Gilliom, the firm's CEO, told Newsbytes that the software is a potential alternative for Internet service providers (ISPs) which do not want to install Carnivore, the . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 21, 2000

Why E-Security Is Hard to Tame

The computer security industry, governments, patent and regulatory bodies, and consumers have moral and social obligations to work together to tackle the issues that are preventing a streamlined environment for electronic commerce. That's the opinion Fran Rooney, chief executive of Irish . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 20, 2000

Virtual Private Networks

This is a general introduction to VPNs, including information on why they're used, architecture decisions, and more. A Virtual Private Network is a secured network connection between an individual and a private network (client-to-server) or a remote LAN and a private . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 19, 2000

Reflections on the Future of Security

Every season yields a bumper crop of computer security stories: break-ins, new vulnerabilities, new products. But this season has also given us a crop of stories about computer security philosophy. There has been a resurgence in opposition to the full disclosure . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 19, 2000

When security fails: Forensics

You've got a sound security setup, with firewalls, intrusion detection, authentication and authorization -- the gamut. Still, one day you find that valuable data is missing from a corporate server. You have no idea whether it's in the hands of an external hacker or a malicious insider. Now what do you do? . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 18, 2000

Fed Execs Rank Top Security Computer Concerns

The SANS Institute revealed Tuesday that the top computer security concerns of 56 federal executives and administrators are: systems being used to attack other agencies' systems; computers being taken off-line for weeks because of hacker-caused corruption; and hackers changing data on . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 14, 2000

Network ICE Releases Open-source Carnivore

Network ICE is disclosing the source code to a new e-mail sniffing program called "Altivore." This software provides a potential alternative to ISPs who do not want to install the FBI's secretive black-box known as "Carnivore." Altivore will allow ISPs to respond to court ordered e-mail surveillance without FBI help, thus allowing them to be self-regulated instead of government regulated.. . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 08, 2000

Authentication: Patterns of Trust

There are plenty of options for user authentication, but none is a "one-size-fits-all" solution. With so many available technologies, how do you select the right one for your organization's needs? "Systems architects sometimes get stuck on security planning, because it's hard . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 07, 2000

Unix, Linux computers vulnerable to damaging new attacks

Security experts have uncovered a new class of vulnerabilities in Unix and Linux systems that let attackers take full control of computers. These "format string" vulnerabilities started surfacing about two months ago, said Elias Levy, a moderator of the Bugtraq . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 07, 2000

Inexpensive measures to solve security problems

Computer security is difficult to achieve. It requires constant vigilance, and it involves inconvenience. Sometimes, expensive products are offered that are claimed to solve your security problems with no problems, and they do not deliver. However, there are a number of . . .

Anthony Pell
Sep 01, 2000

Investors call for action to curb hacking

It could almost be a film script. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is attacked by hackers who wreck havoc by flooding its website with false requests and bring it to a standstill. Yet this is what happened earlier this year. . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 31, 2000

Patent application could evolve into trouble for e-commerce

If the U.S. Patent Office does what it has said it will do, companies using the Internet for computer-to-computer international trade will have to pay a royalty fee to Ed Pool. Mr. Pool, 45 years old, hails from this tiny lakeside . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 28, 2000

The Making of E-Commerce: 10 Key Moments, Part II

This is part two that discusses many of the most significant events in e-commerce history. Read Part One first. "From the first electronic business transactions to heartstopping e-tail sales figures, e-commerce burst onto the scene in dramatic . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 24, 2000

Organised exploitation of the information super-highway

It has long been held that, in terms of a threat to IT systems, the protagonist would be an individual, skilled and knowledgeable, but at odds with the society surrounding them: typically, a college-educated, twenty-something male who found the challenge of . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 24, 2000

Logging with Apache--Understanding Your access_log

Apache comes with built-in mechanisms for logging activity on your server. In this series of articles, I'll talk about the standard way that Apache writes log files, and some of the tricks for getting more useful information and statistics out of . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 21, 2000

VPNs take center stage

Virtual private networks merge IP technology with encryption to offer significant cost savings on WAN traffic.Sure you want a VPN. It can save you money. It can give you a better-meshed network. It can let more people share your enterprise resources . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 15, 2000

Is a Firewall Enough?

Erick Lee writes: "Is a firewall enough to provide security to your network? The answer is no. A common misconception is that firewalls recognize attacks and block them. In fact, firewalls perform only limited, specific functions in network security." . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 14, 2000

Stupid, Stupid Protocols: Telnet, FTP, rsh/rcp/rlogin

In this article, I start by discussing the weaknesses of each of the these absolutely horrid protocols. I then introduce secure shell (ssh) and provide an in-depth guide to using it. Before some of you write this off, realize that if . . .

Anthony Pell
Aug 14, 2000

Network Security - Page 82

I2P 2.5.0 Release Brings Improvements in Tunnels, I2PSnark & More

Canonical Makes Network Management Simpler and More Secure with Netplan 1.0

GTPDOOR Linux Malware Threatens Telecoms, Exploits GPRS Roaming Networks