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The Direction of Financial Crime and the Needs of the Industry to Detect and Prevent: In response to efforts by banks and law enforcement to combat fraud, criminals are using more complex and sophisticated techniques. The attendee of this webcast will learn about the evolution of fraud in the banking environment and where it is likely to head in the future. The presenter explains what...; Tags: Bank, Technique, Financial, Industry, SAS Institute, Fraud, Countermeasure, Productivity, Litigation, Financial Services, Business Operations; Webcasts
Advanced Reaction Using Risk Assessment in Intrusion Detection Systems: Current intrusion detection systems go beyond the detection of attacks and provide reaction mechanisms to cope with detected attacks or at least reduce their effect. Previous research works have pro-posed methods to automatically select possible countermeasures capable of ending the detected attack. But actually, countermeasures have side effects and can...; Tags: Risk Assessment, Intrusion Detection System, Countermeasure, Attack, TELECOM Bretagne, Intrusion Detection, Security, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management; White papers 2007-09-02
Evolution in botnet strategy: Mini-swarms: Security researchers are warning that botnets are using a strategy of splitting into smaller swarms to avoid detection. Security firms F-Secure and Israel-based Finjan believe that the trend appears as an evasive technique as opposed to previous techniques comprising large swarms that can be detected. The TechWorld...; Tags: Swarm, Technique, Researcher, Countermeasure, Productivity, Strategy, Security, Management, Arun Radhakrishnan; Blog posts 2007-10-06
Analysing Countermeasures Against Privacy-Invasive Software: User privacy is widely affected by the occurrence of Privacy-Invasive Software PIS on the Internet. Various forms of countermeasures try to mitigate the negative effects caused by PIS. The authors use a computer forensic tool to evaluate an anti-spyware tool, with respect to found PIS over a four years period....; Tags: Tool, Countermeasure, Anti-spyware, User Privacy, PIS, Productivity, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security; White papers 2006-07-15
Susceptibility of Wireless Devices to Denial of Service Attacks: DoS is a real threat for wireless technologies and could become a show-stopper in some critical applications. In future standards more attention must be paid to DoS issues. Security should be firmly defined in standards and as little as possible should be left to the interpretation of the developer in...; Tags: Denial Of Service, DOS, Wireless Device, Countermeasure, Quality, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Security, Business Operations; White papers 2006-01-06

Fight Off Security Threats with Updated Tools and Sound Security Architecture: IT security professionals know that two of the most important factors for performing adequate penetration testing are: 1) keeping your skills and tool kit current; and 2) effective countermeasures. This sample chapter from Hack I.T.: Security Through Penetration Testing describes ways to keep current on the latest tools and techniques...; Tags: countermeasure, Addison-Wesley, security issue, Hack I.T., information technology, IT security, Penetration Testing, security, technique, tool; Download resources 2006-05-31

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University opens school for hackers: Also other places to learn*detective rescources*China is way ahead...It was several years ago that I came across some information that the Chinese created a team to crack the net wide open and bring it down when they wished as a military countermeasure. If you see any clips of our GI's...; Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, actixkid@..., Spy; Discussion threads 2006-06-26
Fighting fire with fire: Wired reported that on Friday, April 11, two weeks ago, security expert Joel Eriksson discussed the tools and techniques he uses to crack security on common security cracking software at the RSA Security Conference -- fighting fire with fire, you might say. This was Bitsec AB, CTO...; Tags: Technique, Security Cracker, Productivity, Security, Chad Perrin; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Wacky Linux Part 17.5: Configuration sensations: [This episode brought to you by the Wacky Linux Wireless Card, sponsored by Palmetto] In our last episode, I managed to get my Wacky Laptop to recognize my new wireless card see above. Unfortunately, I couldn't gain access to the public wireless network here...; Tags: Linux, Network, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Jay Garmon; Blog posts 2006-04-12
How to Build a Faraday Cage on the Cheap for Wireless TCP/IP Fingerprinting: The commonly known security weaknesses associated with the 802.11b wireless standard have introduced a variety of security measures to countermeasure attacks. Using a wireless honeypot, a fake wireless network may be configured through emulation of devices and the TCP/IP fingerprinting of OS network stacks. TCP/IP fingerprinting is one of the...; Tags: Tcp/Ip, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Security; White papers 2005-10-17
Mobile Traffic Sensor Network Versus Motion-MIX: Tracing and Protecting Mobile Wireless Nodes: This paper focuses on passive attacks that threaten the privacy of mobile wireless networks. The paper defines the concept of "Venue Privacy Attack" VPA to illustrate the emerging anonymity attacks to trace mobile wireless nodes. Then it proposes "Motion-MIX" as the countermeasure to defend against various venue privacy attacks. This...; Tags: Mobile, Network, Sensor, Attack, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Security, Marketing; White papers 2005-11-07
LITEWORP: Detection and Isolation of the Wormhole Attack in Static Multihop Wireless Networks: In multihop wireless systems, such as ad-hoc and sensor networks, the need for cooperation among nodes to relay each other's packets exposes them to a wide range of security attacks. A particularly devastating attack is known as the wormhole attack, where a malicious node records control and data traffic at...; Tags: Node, Attack, LITEWORP, Security, Wireless; White papers 2007-06-12
Flaw found in older Office versions: Flaw found in older Office versionsarticle rootFlaw found in older Office versionsSecurity company Secunia issued an advisory Thursday stating that a buffer overrun flaw was discovered in Office 2000, and potentially also in Office XP, that could allow hackers to take over a user's system. Microsoft says that is going...; Tags: flaw, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Newsletter Editor, older Office; Discussion threads 2004-10-08
Download this presentation on how hackers attack networks: IT professionals are increasingly realizing that social engineering is one of the biggest threats to network security--and the best countermeasure is education. Use this presentation to educate users and staff on how hackers launch attacks.Hackers employ a variety of tools and methods to break into networks, and the best way...; Tags: Hacking, NETWORKING, Ray Geroski, network, hacker, security, IT-staff, attack; Technical articles 2002-07-30
Put CISSP focus areas to use on your network: Take a look at the three major security domains that are most easily applied to an operational network: Security Management Practices, Access Control Systems and Methodology, and Operations Security. One of the most recognized and respected security certifications is the Certified Information Systems Security Professional...; Tags: Michael Mullins CCNA, MCP, security, access control, network, Security Solutions Newsletter, Michael \"Mullins CCNA, MCP\"; Technical articles 2005-06-24
Fighting spam for free: After looking at some of the commercial spam-fightingproducts on the market, lets now take a look at the open source tools offeredto solve this problem.A mail gateway that is configured to filter out spam and/orredirect mail for one or more domains to the required mail server can be a veryuseful...; Tags: ClamAV, Postfix, spam, SpamAssassin, tool; Blog posts 2006-02-28
Convincing loyalist execs to replace antique systems: Convincing loyalist execs to replace antique systemsWe fear change. Any attempt to offset our current business practices will be shot down with extreme ignorance. That goes double for any type of new technology that may present a learning curve. One day, disaster will strike, but until then...; Tags: TonyBaggaDonuts, office politics, management, upgrade, it management, telephone; Discussion threads 2006-05-17
Sci-fi rant: Why giant mecha robots are stupid: Admit it, you love giant robots. Call them mecha, Gundam, super robots, battlemechs, or whatever--you love them. I love them. Everyone loves them. Ultraman. MechaGodzilla. Gigantor. Voltron. The other Voltron. Tranzor Z. Each of these franchises has found international acclaim and nourished the battlebot desires of millions of fans--some of...; Tags: Leg, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Jay Garmon; Blog posts 2008-02-06
Book looks at hacking from both sides of the box: If you are in charge of securing your network, this is one book that you should have on your shelf. The newest edition of Hacking Exposed rates the most common types of attacks and ways to prevent them. Read this review of a must-have book.Once, hackers were brilliant, if deviant,...; Tags: SECURITY, NETWORKING, Michael Jackman, hacking, Hacking Exposed, network, attack; Technical articles 2002-03-01
Get IT Done: Let the U.S. government help you secure Win2K: Read the governments 163-page installation and security best practices document for information on how to secure the Windows 2000 operating system.Don’t trust Microsoft? You're not alone. But if you don't trust the company, why would you depend on it to provide all your Windows security guidelines? A better approach might...; Tags: Get IT Done, John McCormick, U.S. Government, Microsoft Windows 2000, security, NIST, Microsoft Windows XP; Technical articles 2002-02-19

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