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Hacker attacks are no longer limited to high-profile organizations such as banks and governments. Automated tools have made it easier to identify and exploit network …

While it sounds strange, disconnecting your e-commerce servers from the Internet is exactly what SpearHead Security Technologies would have you do – using their NetGAP …

Stuart Stuart McClure is the President and CTO of Foundstone, a successful security author, speaker, and teacher. Stuart holds a B.A. degree from the University of Colorado, …

Traditional Internet filtering methods depend on manually compiled blocking lists, individual ratings or online applied heuristics algorithms. These methods are, for the most …

Much of the focus of disaster recovery planning is on creating redundant data sites and backup tapes. Very often, a crucial component is overlooked: that of keeping current …

Buffer Overflows are one of the most common and potentially deadly forms of attack against computer systems to date. They allow an attacker to locally or remotely inject …

Enterprise security is traditionally managed with a plethora of tools. Common among them are firewalls, intrusion detection systems, vulnerability scanning, and penetration …

This paper is written from the perspective of an attacker and shows typical “cursi incursi” for Microsoft SQL Server. An attacker’s location in the …

The Secure Socket Layer is the protocol that gives e-commerce the confidence it needs to allow on-line banking and shopping. SSL provides and encrypted bi-directional data …

Most enterprise networks are protected from the Internet by firewalls. While firewall protections are essential, they rarely identify types of attacks, or attacks on allowed …

This paper describes policy, process and technology issues that need to be considered in implementing a privacy-sensitive secure personal ID system. The different ID …

Introduction Well, It’s now two weeks since the release of Shatter, and my inbox has finally started calming down. I’ve tried to reply to most of the messages …