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Author :: Howard Goff  |
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| Article Title :: Don't Get Caught by a Phishing Scheme |
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| You receive an email from your bank warning you that your account information needs to be updated urgently or else it will be suspended. In a panic, you click on the link in the email and are brought to your bank's web site. Without giving it a second thought, you enter your user name and password to access your account online. In that moment, you have just handed an unknown criminal the keys to your banking account. You've been the victim of a phishing1 scheme.
Phishing has become one of the most common methods of electronically stealing people's identities. During the period between May 2004 and May 2005, over 1.2 million individuals were victims of these attacks and have lost (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: amabaie |
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| Article Title :: What is web site monitoring all about? |
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| What is web site monitoring all about? Here is Carl's story:
Carl returned to the office after a tough day of negotiations. He still was not sure if the crucial deal was on or off, but dinner would soon be waiting and he had just enough time left to check his emails and his phone messages.
He had twelve phone messages, every one of them urgent. Too late to call back right away; that would have to wait for morning.
His inbox held that familiar email report from his web site monitoring service. He smiled. As usual, there were no error alerts. That's what he liked to see -- his web site still performing well.
He looked carefully at the report (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: amabaie |
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| Article Title :: Web Site and Network Stress Monitoring |
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| In todayÂ’s world, organizations are fast accepting the web and related applications as part of their overall business strategies. They understand that the Internet provides them with the potential to target a very focused set of customers spread across a very diverse geography.
For a successful Internet presence, it is important that the web server and web applications are reliable, scalable and always available, irrespective of traffic volumes to the site.
To achieve this, you must test all your hardware and software using tools to check your web site, usually called web stress tools. These tools should ideally be used even before the site is on the World Wide (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: amabaie |
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| Article Title :: Monitoring the International Web |
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| One of the top website monitoring services in the world has announced that it's industry-leading network and website monitoring services can now be accessed in French, Spanish and German, as well as in the original English. Why this sudden interest in other languages?
"Many people in the English-speaking world think there is only one Internet – the English Internet," says Vadim Mazo, Chief Technology Officer for Dotcom-Monitor. "But there are vibrant communities popping up all over the world, each fully functional in its own language. And people in every country expect to be served as much as possible in their own language.
Dotcom-Monitor has recently expanded i (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Johnny Mayer |
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| Article Title :: Application Security - IT Risk Management |
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| Application Security risk assessment and risk management are vital tasks for IT managers. Corporations face increased levels of Application Security risk from hackers and cyber crooks seeking intellectual property and customer information. A comprehensive application security risk assessment is a modern day corporate necessity.
Application security risk management provides the optimal protection within the constraints of budget, law, ethics, and safety. Performing an overall Application Security risk assessment enables organizations to make wise decisions.
Web Servers - Application Security
Web Servers are One of the most critical sources of Application Secu (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Johnny Mayer |
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| Article Title :: Intrusion Prevention - IT Risk Management |
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| Intrusion Prevention solutions detect and eliminate content-based threats from email, viruses, worms, intrusions, etc. in real time without degrading network performance. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance.
Today's global information infrastructure faces possible huge financial losses caused by ineffective Intrusion Prevention. Among the most vulnerable technologies are Providers of VoIP, video teleconferencing and data over cellular networks. While these providers have integrated into their produc (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Robert Benson |
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| Article Title :: 5 Simple Steps To Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft |
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| Are you the victim of identity theft? According to Joanna Crane of the Federal Trade Commission's Identity Theft Program, 80% of the victims who call the FTC say they have no idea how it happened.
Furthermore, an FTC survey reported that 4.6% of those polled reported that they had been a victim of identity theft within the past year. Additionally, according to a recent General Accounting Office report, it is estimated that as many as 750,000 Americans are victims of identity theft every year.
Is this an invisible enemy and are American's personal and financial information that easily accessible to identity thieves? What can the average American do to protect themsel (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: T. O' Donnell |
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| Article Title :: Deliver Your Web Site From Evil (Part 1) |
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| 1. Backup your website on the server.
If you have more than one important web site, put them on different web hosts. Don't rely on your web host for backups.
Find two different hosts which allow SSH access. Get an account with each. FTP the backup of one site to the other server directly, and vice versa. Download copies to your home computer as well.
2. Put a file called 'index.html' in every major or important directory in your website, if it doesn't already have one.
This stops people trying to peek at other files in the same directory.
3. Do not use old versions of FormMail. Do not use scripts that are newly released, un (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Shawn Davis |
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| Article Title :: Essential Spy Stuff for the Professional |
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| Any professional knows that the right tools are essential for the job. The same goes for spy and surveillance professionals. The right spy stuff is important. You need to be able to get the job done and you need to be able to impress your clients with your high-tech looking spy stuff and your up to date capabilities. Getting the right spy equipment is a matter of investment. If you use your spy gear to do a good job, you will receive referrals from happy clients and will have more work. So, even though it may cost some money up front, if you have the right spy stuff you will be able to make all of that money back —and then some.
Listening devices are the list of essential s (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Shawn Davis |
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| Article Title :: Is Spy Gear Legal? |
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| Many people when they first start determining whether or not they have a need or desire for spy gear wonder if it is legal. After all, spy gear is used to do a great many things, include investigate information that others would like to keep private. Such a use might suggest that purchasing spy equipment is illegal. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Even though some of the things people use spy stuff for are illegal, actually buying and owning the equipment is not.
If spy gear were illegal, where would bounty hunters and P.I.s get all of the equipment they need to do their jobs? In order for these private professionals to do their jobs, they need to have access (read full article) |
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