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The Essential Elements of Comprehensive Endpoint Security | 26/03/08 |
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Establishing a comprehensive endpoint security solution is complicated, and issues like accounting for unmanaged nodes only increase the scope of the challenge. What's more, selecting and stitching together an appropriate set of counter-measures means navigating a complex landscape of point products. Accordingly, the intent of this white paper is to clarify the the endpoint security problem and identify the functional requirements of a comprehensive endpoint security solution.
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MSDN Webcast: ASP.NET Soup to Nuts: Web Site Security (Level 200) | 2006-06-09 01:00:26 |
Microsoft |
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This webcast shows how to explore Web sites from a hacker's point of view to learn what one can do to protect the site, and, more importantly, the information it contains. The webcast demonstrates several types of hacks so that one can see exactly what types of vulnerabilities hackers are looking for in a Web site.
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TechNet Webcast: Anatomy of a Network Hack: How to Get Your Network Hacked in 10 Easy Steps (Level 300) | 2006-06-09 01:00:26 |
Microsoft |
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This webcast demonstrates how a successful attack is used to compromise one's network. The webcast shows how attackers use these techniques, and how to prevent them. The techniques may be surprising, but one will be much more able to protect the Windows network, once they are understood.
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The Legalities of Spyware | 2006-06-09 01:00:27 |
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It is easy to understand why the introduction of the Spyblock Act, is finally allowing net surfers to breath a little easier. This has been a problem that has been building for some time now. The easy removal of software programs are the primary directive of this bill, and will require the computer users consent to install. Given that the computer can and usually does house a large amount of personal information on the individual user, people should in essence have the same rights as when they are in their homes with the blinds drawn. Privacy is the biggest issue where Spyware is concerned. The fact that so many net users are indeed being unknowingly hijacked everyday is a very troubling thought.
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Thwart Those Internet Hijackers With Some Simple Solutions | 2006-06-09 01:00:27 |
LT International |
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One of the largest threats on the web today is hijacking and/or hacking. It can be by the way of obnoxious assaults of pop-ups after one misspelled a web address or a key code that takes over the browser fully. There is a good probability that everyone who has or will surf the net will be attacked at some point. But it possible to thwart the hijackers attack and keep them out of the machine. It is even possible to avoid them all together by using common sense when surfing the net. Don't go on sites that cannot be trusted or download from unreliable sources. This will keep one away from the type of sites that can contain malicious software.
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Dont Click That! and Other Tips to Avoid Spyware | 2006-06-09 01:00:27 |
LT International |
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Spyware is simply a program that is used by advertising industries to automatically direct one to their websites or fill the screen with pop-ups even though one has set the pop-up blocker on high. This software gets installed on the computer either without the knowing or when one thinks one is downloading something else. There are even types of spyware that can track what keys one is typing and translates them into what one has said. This is how hijackers get the personal information. Spyware can make the computer go slower because of the extra processing the computer is doing.
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Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Prep: Understanding Footprinting and Scanning | 2006-06-16 01:00:27 |
Pearson Education |
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This paper helps to prepare for the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Exam by covering foot printing and scanning. Sample exam questions with detailed answers are provided to help the reader prepare for the Certified Ethical Hacker exam. The EC-Council divides information gathering into seven basic steps. These include gathering information, determining the network range, identifying active machines, finding open ports and access points, OS fingerprinting, fingerprinting services, and mapping the network.
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Hacker Techniques: Windows Malware and Blind SQL Injection | 2006-06-09 01:00:26 |
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They keep banging on systems, crippling performance, damaging the files and laying waste to the bandwidth. How does one understands what makes this stuff tick? With a little creativity and some free, open source software the webcast shows how to analyze that malware and understand many of the changes that a successful virus, worm, trojan horse or rootkit can have on a Windows system. As developers learn about the threat of SQL Injection attacks, they often associate them with "ODBC" error messages. While the verbosity of these error messages certainly helps the attacker, simply suppressing the messages buries it deeper. This webcast discusses the true overall core issue with SQL Injection.
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MSDN Webcast: A Hacker's View of Your Web Applications Part 2: Web Hacking - Attack Scenarios and Examples - Level 300 | 2006-06-09 01:00:26 |
Microsoft |
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By taking advantage of the public access to a company and using it to subvert the applications, hackers can gain easy access into the company's sensitive backend data. Firewalls and IDS will not stop such attacks because hackers using the Web application layer are not seen as intruders. This webcast shows how to defend against attacks at the Web application layer with examples covering recent hacking methods such as: SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting, Parameter Manipulation, Session Hijacking, and LDAP Injection.
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MSDN Webcast: Web Applications: Software Security Starts With the Developer (Level 200) | 2006-06-09 01:00:26 |
Microsoft |
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This webcast addresses each phase of the Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC) and how the enterprise is moving to proactively address security defects during development. The webcast outlines the importance of conducting security assessment and remediation at the development stage in order to significantly improve application quality, performance and security. Through this webcast one can understand why web application risks occur and where they originate through real-world examples of hacked applications and the resulting business impact.
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MSDN Webcast: Keeping Secrets in .NET Applications Level 200 | 2006-06-09 01:00:26 |
Microsoft |
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Cryptography is one of those areas most developers think as a "Dark art". This webcast shows how easy it is to use Cryptography to secure data such as credit card numbers, passwords, and connection strings. The webcast shows how to hash passwords using a Salt value to make it hard for hackers to crack. It also shows how to use symmetric algorithms to encrypt and decrypt connection strings.
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