By Douglas Barnes,

Austin Cypherpunks Article pulled from Security-Protocols

It used to be that a lot of my net friends thought the growth and global spread of the Internet was an unmitigated Good Thing. "Global communication is the key to world peace," I used to hear. "High bandwidth connections between nations will create a global sense of community."

By Shanna Riley

You've heard all kinds of terrible things about it, but just what IS it - and how does it get on your computer in the first place?

By Edward Toppe

Spyware and adware is advertising supported software that allows its publishers to snoop on a computer user's internet activity.

It is designed to obtain information about computer users and their surfing behavior usually without their knowledge or consent. Spyware is potentially more harmful than Adware because it can record your keystrokes, history, passwords, credit card number and other confidential and private information. Besides spyware and adware, computers can also be infected with my other internet parasites such as Winfixer 2005, viruses, trojans, dialers, etc.

By Yvette Dubel

Post September 11th has seen a significant surge of interest in data security. It is logical to deduce that Federal, particularly military, information would under severe scrutiny.

Firewalls are one of the fastest growing technical tools in the field of information security. However, afirewall is only as secure as the operating system it resides upon. This article is a continuation of the original Armoring Solaris article, focusing on building a minimized Solaris 8 64-bit for CheckPoint FW-1 NG firewall. This article does not include an updated script for the automated securing of the new installation, as there was in Armoring Solaris. Instead, we will be using Solaris Security Toolkit (JASS). This is a new tool developed and released by Sun for the secure deployment of the Solaris platform. In otherwords, I'm not going to develop a tool to automate the secure build since that tool is already out there.

By Benjamin Hargis

It seems nowadays if you are not online, you don't exist. It really does not matter what type of company you run, you should have an online presence to let your prospects and clients know about your company and services. When you decide to take the leap onto the Internet there are some precautions you should take. I have friends who say all the time, I really have nothing to hide or worry about. This may be true, but malicious users like to deface websites.Which can ruin you and your businesses reputation.

By Rick Parrott

Go into to any office and look under the computer keyboards and you'll eventually find a little piece of paper with that users logon ID and passwords. Probably every password that person has.

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Organizations throughout the world are adopting Linux as their production platform. By connecting to the Internet to provide critical services, they also become targets of opportunity. To help protect these Linux systems, this article covers the basics of securing a Linux box. The examples provided here are based on Red Hat 6.0, but should apply to most Linux distributions.

By Allen Brown

If you are actively working online than there is a huge possibility that in some way Spyware will get installed in your computer. After all, it takes is only clicking the wrong site or by downloading some programs. Nowadays there is a new form of Spyware everyday, which has been created by the people or company that is desperately seeking information. Spyware is also known as a great damager to the companies. It is not so noticeable like spam and virus attacks to the systems.

By Gary Gresham

Safe web surfing on the Internet continues to get harder every day. Even though you can't eliminate all of the risks, there are ways you can reduce some of the danger.