Expert analysis

With over 10 years experience of defending against Internet Security threats, Tom Salkield, Managing Director of NetConnect, has seen it all. NetConnect, part of Netstore plc, …

I have always thought the idea of scanning for viruses to be flawed, well certainly as a security measure. Yet nearly all of you reading this article will be relying on just …

The World Wide Web is being used increasingly for application-to-application communication, thanks to programmatic interfaces known as web services. In conjunction with …

This is a research paper on the security (or lack of) within computer systems and ways of improvement with respect to mobile and hostile code such as worms. This paper should …

When Khaled Mardam-Bey developed an IRC client for the Windows platform, I doubt he envisaged mIRC becoming the basis for the control of an immeasurable number of compromised …

These new security updates address newly discovered issues in Microsoft Windows, including Internet Explorer. Two of the updates are ranked as “Critical” while one …

DNS is a heavily used protocol on the Internet yet has numerous security considerations. This paper whilst containing nothing new on DNS security brings together in one …

We used to have simple web sites. The web server sent HTML to the browser which displayed it. This was a “brochureware” site; designed for marketing or …

This paper is about using Nessus to scan Windows networks and various scenarios one might encounter. It does not talk about running Nessus from a Windows machine but on a …

BorderWare Technologies Inc. released yet another security appliance in a relatively short time. After MXtreme Mail Firewall 3.0 and NameVault DNS Server 3.0 have seen their …

Cross site scripting (XSS) flaws are a relatively common issue in web application security, but they are still extremely lethal. They are unique in that, rather than attacking …

Introduction Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are quickly gaining popularity as serious contenders in the remote-access marketplace. Analysts predict …