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Author :: Benjamin Hargis  |
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| Article Title :: Windows 2000 Security |
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| I was asked recently to go to a car dealership and do a security analysis on their Windows Server 2000 machine.This is what I recommend doing to any Windows 2000 machine where applicable.Make sure that the guest account is disabled. It comes disabled by default.A problem I notice allot is when I go to companies, lots of accounts are still active for employees who no longer work there. They should be removed when the employee is terminated or leaves on their own accord. Disgruntled employees have been known to wreck havoc.Group policies can and should be implemented in a Windows 2000 environment and audited to make sure there are no extra accounts or accounts wi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Steve Blampied |
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| Article Title :: Who's using your network? |
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| Recently wireless networks have become easier and easier to set up.Many people who have purchased broadband routers have gone for the option of adding wireless connectivity and the appeal of browsing the Internet from the garden or listening to your mp3 collection in the bath has prompted many others to add wireless connectivity to their existing systems.Unfortunately, in an effort to make their products easy to set up and therefore sell, many of the manufacturers of these wireless units have bypassed the security aspects of wireless networking and have enabled insecure wireless by default.This may not seem a serious problem for the average home user, who may even be (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Mike Ameye |
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| Article Title :: Is Your Email Private? Part 3 of 3 |
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| In Part 1 of Is Your Email Private; We covered the basics of most current email systems, including how they work and why they are not secure. We then started into the topic of encryption and provided a link to PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), considered by many to be the default standard for email encryption on the Internet.In Part 2 of the series, we covered in more detail what PGP is and how to use it with your email client. Now we'll move on to online email services.Over the past couple of years a new kind of secure, online email tool has become available. Companies like HushMail.com, MuteMail.com, S-mail.com, CeritfiedMail.com, and StrongPost.net. offer products and services t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Daviyd Peterson |
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| Article Title :: Mom, there's a Spy on My Desktop... No Not a Fly, a Spy |
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| While finishing dinner a friend of mine heard her 12-year old
son's express this while he was completing homework for
tommorrow. She thought he said 'there is a fly on my desktop'
and politely told him 'tell your father and he will fix it'. Of
course he knew that dad doesn't touch computers and said ' but
mom it's a spy, not a fly'. That's when I got the phone call -
she lives right around the corner in the city of richardson
texas - about what to do, did you check your virus/spyware
software - 'it only fixes viruses, not anything else and what is
spyware anyway? That is when the phone call got a little bit
longer than expected. Most parents have the notion that if there
are no (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Grant Pasay |
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| Article Title :: Internet Basics: Anti-Virus Software is Like a Soldier Ant |
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| Ever see soldier ants at their anthill? They have one job -- protect what's inside. How do they do this? They stop anything unfriendly from coming in. Fortunately for the soldier ants, it's easy to know what not to let in -- if it ain't an ant, no passage allowed!But ants going in sometimes bring things along with them, things they're carrying that could be dangerous to the life of the hill.What if, for example, an ant out looking for food found a yummy red can full of free food just sitting there. He grabs a bunch. Heads back to the hill. The soldier ant sees the other ant is an ant, and so he's free to pass - only neither ant recognizes the food being brought in is actuall (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Jason Frovich |
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| Article Title :: How to Find Totally Free Spyware Removal Programs and Avoid the Shams |
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| The need for computer users to install Anti-Spyware programs becomes more and more evident each day, as more and more users experience problems caused by Spyware. The problems can be annoying, but essentially harmless, such as a slow downed computer or irritating pop-up windows. Unfortunately, the Spyware programs are capable of causing much more sever harm than that. For example, Spyware has been linked to identity thefts as well as credit card frauds. Spyware programs can gather and transmit very sensitive information about you to their owner, such as lists of all your visited websites, details from your online purchases, e-mail addresses and phone numbers to friends, family and colleag (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Mitch Johnson |
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| Article Title :: Businesses Face Spyware Threats on a Day to Day Basis |
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| The network administrator an a company ran a normal web activity report of all the enterprise’s users and found that the employees were logging thousands of hits per day on a single site that had nothing to do with the business. What was found was not that the employees were slacking while at work, rather the network was infected with spyware that was tracking the surfers’ activity then sending the information back to the web site for a third part to review and use, all without the employees’ knowledge.Spyware can and will slow a computer’s bandwidth as well as cause the network to gradual decrease its speed. Many companies are beginning to worry about spyware because it (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Steve Buchok |
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| Article Title :: Virus Scanning or Virus Avoidance |
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| I have had to fix hundreds of computers over the past several years and most of them could have been easily avoided by using antivirus software and making sure everything was up to date. This is not hard to do you just need to learn to make it a part of your routine.
Best Antivirus Software
Viruses are little executable programs that run on your computer, normally without you knowing and can cause an immense amount of damage to so little that you don’t even notice. The best way to guard yourself is to not go on the internet, or even better don’t own a computer. If that isn’t a viable option for you then you are going to need a virus scanner. Most people (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Mike Steward |
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| Article Title :: How to Stop Spyware |
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| Spyware is one of the biggest threats to your privacy and the security of your data. Here's a series of helpful questions and answers that can help you remove and minimize future spyware from your computer.Spyware comes in various forms, but basically it is a program or piece of information on your computer that either sends data about you or your computer habits to someone else on the Internet. This can be a company that is collecting data, or a thief seeking to steal access to your computer or data like bank information on it. Spyware can also be a program that places unwanted ads on your computer. Cookies can be considered spyware. They are little piece of information placed in (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Rick Parrott |
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| Article Title :: Security, Productivity, and Cost Controls |
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| Go ahead; mention computer security to the average small business owner. See how fast his hand covers his wallet. This is because most people see security as an expense. The average small business owner immediately thinks about the costs to implement something, not necessarily how it will help his business.Of course, this reaction varies on the number of security incidents the small business owner has experienced. It is amazingly easy to convince a client to install a backup system after he has lost his entire customer database.So what do we do? Nothing in the business world exists in a vacuum. Especially security, we need to look at security as an enhancement to the busines (read full article) |
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