Tag: securing

Securing The Presidential Blackberry

The Presidential Blackberry. Wouldn’t you love to get a glimpse of what’s on it? That’s precisely the problem, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin told Murdok. While President Bush travels generally incommunicado–that is, unthinkably for most us, sans mobile phone–the President-Elect is in a very public argument for retention of his pre-election smart phone.

Securing POP mail access in MacOSX

I always worry about my website. Security is serious stuff, and you really can’t be too careful. I don’t enable telnet, rlogin and use long, complicated passwords with ssh and so on. I use a shared webserver (http://www.interland.com) that allows me virtual root access, and I fortunately don’t have to worry about things like sendmail; Interland keeps on top of that sort of thing for me.

Securing Network Resources

Network attacks are the biggest risk for Windows 2000 servers. Since the release of the old Windows NT 3.1, hackers have been actively looking for bugs in Microsoft Windows operating systems. Tools like SecHole, IISInjector, NAT (NetBIOS Auditing Tool), SMBRelay and L0pthcrack have been developed to reveal passwords, execute actions on a server, forge network connections and degrade system performance. In addition, several critical security vulnerabilities have been recently released for Windows 2000 that can completely expose a network to an intruder.

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