Security & Firewalls

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News VirusAlert News (in Dutch) - The latest virus and security news (in Dutch) Newly Discovered Viruses - McAfee AVERT tracks the latest viruses and trojan horses to keep you up-to-date with the many new, and altered, viruses emerging every day. Netcraft: New Worm Installs Network Traffic Sniffer - While sniffers are hardly new, the bundling of a sniffer with an auto-propagating worm is a development... Why your personal firewall could be obsolete - If your business has turned the use of personal firewalls into a required countermeasure, now's a good time to start thinking more strategically before buying any more personal firewall technology from a third party. Microsoft will put most of your firewall need in Windows XP, Service Pack 2, and this will certainly hurt the businesses of Symantec, McAfee, Zone Labs, Sygate, ISS (BlackICE), and Panda Software. Gates: 'Everything' impacted by security concerns - News - ZDNet - Service Pack 2 dedicated to security: firewall, pop-up blocker integrated... >> get more news here

Info SearchAppSecurity.com - SearchAppSecurity.com is the Web's definitive guide to application security for IT professionals. With our white papers, expert advice and free chapters, professionals seeking easier operation and stronger strategic impact have the resources they need at their fingertips. Firewall Resource Guide - This guide is a compilation of resources that explain what firewalls are, how they work, vulnerabilities, troubleshooting, configurations and more. Computer Security Resource Center of the NIST - Huge resource of security information, providing lots of publications, bulletins, newsletters, ... Home PC Firewall Guide - The purpose of the Home PC Firewall Guide is to provide easy access to independent, third-party reviews of Internet security products for home, telecommuter, and SOHO (small office, home office) end-users. The products we track include personal firewall, anti-virus, anti-Trojan and privacy software as well as low-cost routers with firewall features. searchSecurity.com - great Web site with news, articles, solutions, ... >> get more info here

Market AV-Test.org / Tests of Anti-Virus Software - ... is a project of the Business-Information-Workgroup at the Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany) in cooperation with GEGA IT-Solutions GbR. We consistently test anti-virus software on behalf of companies and leading IT publications. AV-Test.org /Tests of Anti-Virus Software - an up-to-date market overview of anti-virus-software (overviews in Excel) Market Overview & Comparison: The Automation of IT through IdM - Examines the Identity Management (IdM) suites of the biggest names in security, management systems, and applications - BMC Software, CA, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems, as well as many other (point) products. Security Scanners - "A scanner is a program that automatically detects security weaknesses in a remote or localhost.". Scanners are important to Internet security because they reveal weaknesses in the network. System administrators can strengthen the security of networks by scanning their own networks. Application Security, Inc.'s overview of security standards organizations - Organizations dedicated to information security. >> get more market info here

Literature XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheatsheet: Esp: for filter evasion - by RSnake - This page is for people who already understand the basics of XSS attacks but want a deep understanding of the nuances regarding filter evasion. This page will also not show you how to mitigate XSS vectors or how to write the actual cookie/credential stealing/replay/session riding portion of the attack. It will simply show the underlying methodology and you can infer the rest. Firewall management white papers - ZDNet's collection of white papers IT-Director.com's Tech Spotlight on Security - Great articles on some general security issues White Paper: Contingency Planning Guide for Information Technology Systems (in PDF) - white paper by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Report: Securing Windows - A collection of many articles at eWeek.com about the security problems in MS Windows, worms, viruses, ... >> get more literature here