Items Tagged with "Network Security"
Windows 8 Forensics: USB Activity
December 03, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
When I started working on Windows 8 USB drive forensics, I assumed it would be similar to Windows 7. I created a fresh Windows 8 VM and plugged a thumb drive into my local system. The VM recognized it as it should. I shut the VM down and opened it in EnCase to examine what happened...
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Two New SQL Security Books from Syngress
November 29, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Since SQL is so ubiquitous on corporate networks, with sites often running hundreds of SQL servers; SQL is prone to attacks. SQL injection is a technique often used to attack databases through a website and is often done by including portions of SQL statements in a web form entry field...
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Hackers hit International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) agency
November 29, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The group of hackers who named itself Parastoo Farsi have exposed contacts for more than 100 nuclear experts and scientists, the word Parastoo is Farsi and refers to a bird species like the swallow and an Iranian girl's name...
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Low-Cost Ways to Make Your Network More Secure
November 26, 2012 Added by:Marc Quibell
There are improvements you can introduce that are seamless, low-cost , don't present a new burden to your users, and/or are easy to implement. So in between your major IT Security projects that may or may not happen, why not improve you security posture and lower your overall risks?
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LTE networks vulnerable to jamming, a question of national security
November 18, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
"These comments describe extremely effective attacks can be realized, using fairly low complexity. It would be in the interest of public safety to take measures to reduce the vulnerability of Public Safety LTE, and lower the likelihood of an effective jamming attack..."
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Unconventional Defense - Taming a wild environment with CCRM
November 15, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Configuration, Change and Release Management is crucial to being an effective information security organization in an enterprise large, or small. If you don't have a handle on the rate of change in your enterprise, you have absolutely no hope of effectively securing anything...
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Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation
November 14, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Every organization of size and scope is a target, and many of the world’s largest firms and governments have been victims. In Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation, Dr. Max Kilger and his co-authors provide an effective counterintelligence approach in which to deal with APT...
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Offensive Defense: A Really Bad Idea Proposed By Charlatans And Zealots
November 08, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Everyone just stop. All you offering the services or touting the ideas should just sit back down and shut up. Everyone cries now that the government is encroaching on their rights with regard to privacy and you all want to just push that bar even further out with offensive defense actions? Morons…
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On Password Hell
November 06, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
I had one sysadmin a few years ago who demanded we all use 64 character passwords and every other character had to switch type. It was something like ^y?M3aI`B[a/ and so on... It took two minutes to type it in and I had to carry a paper with the password written on it. I was so glad when he left...
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Getting System the Lazy Way
October 31, 2012 Added by:f8lerror
We know all that many users are local administrators. We also know we can send or drop binaries to these users and they will run whatever we want them to. The problem lies in when they run the binary if they don’t run it as admin we may not be able to get system level access. To be honest that is the level I want...
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Clean That Network Traffic
October 31, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Why not deploy an intelligent appliance behind the router and in front of the firewall? Filter out all the junk before you expend any resources in your firewall, or log all the events with your IDS/SEIM. Reduce your need for multiple servers and load balancers. This is like a reverse osmosis for your network...
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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide
October 31, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
What information is being broadcast by your computers, company, or employees, that don’t show up in a software scan? Many companies think that if they just run a vulnerability scan and it passes that they are good, but is this an accurate test of your network security?
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Admin Rights - Your Achilles Heel
October 31, 2012 Added by:Paul Kenyon
Every organization experiences user frustrations and complications that result in support calls to the help desk. While each call may seem to suggest a unique problem, there could be a common root cause amongst them. Help desk calls often seem to be black and white – the machine works and now it doesn’t...
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Why doesn't your VPN work on the road?
October 29, 2012 Added by:Rainer Enders
With the ubiquity of mobile devices, staying securely connected to work - in theory - should require nothing more than an internet connection, and seemingly everywhere you travel, whether that be in hotels, airports, or conference trade shows, offer such connections. But the reality is more complicate...
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Rethinking the consumer/enterprise operating system
October 28, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
When Microsoft converged their kernel and made a single version of Windows most people were relieved, especially Microsoft developers and security types. It was now going to be easier to maintain the code base - but was that the right call? I think the jury may still be out...
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The Undervalued Security Benefits of IPsec
October 26, 2012 Added by:Rainer Enders
For too long, IPsec struggled with a reputation of being cumbersome to implement and manage. However, even amid the harshest of its critics, its ability to secure data has rarely, if ever, come into question. Now, through advancements in the technology's infrastructure, IPsec has become easy to use...