By Shelley Lowery

Working on the Internet provides Internet marketers with the opportunity to make a living in the comfort of their own home. However, as your business is completely reliant upon your computer, you must take the necessary steps to ensure your computer is safe.

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.

By Reggie Andersen

Before authentication methods can be discussed, authentication should be defined. So basically we are deciding whether someone or something is, who or what it is declared to be.

Assembly nowadays is a hard thing to learn, not because it's difficult but because people thinks that there is no reason to learn assembly! That's not true... With assembly you can have total power above the computer, and know exactly what he's doing. Try to remember that while trying to learn!

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 Donald Nelson

Spam is one of the curses of the Internet age. But if the clogging of mail boxes with useless emails was bad enough, unsolicited emails aimed at tricking you into giving your valuable passwords, banking and PIN numbers is the most dangerous variety of email that you will ever encounter. This kind of email is known as "phishing" because the unscrupulous authors of these messages are fishing for valuable information which they can use to capture your online identity.

By Ahmed Ijaz(ija)

Artificial intelligence, laptops, PCs, vaxclusters, local area networks, cobol, bits, bytes, viruses, and worms.   Most people recognize these words as computer terms.   As computers have become a vital part of the American way of life, computer terminology has crept into the vernacular.   There is no doubt that computers touchevery aspect of our lives.   Well over 80 percent of daily financial transactions nationwide take place via electronic funds transfers.   However, many computer systems are highly vulnerable to criminal attack.   In fact, computer- related crime costs American companies as much as $5 billion per year.

By Bob Rankin

"Can someone track a user (name, home address, etc.) simply by having their email or IP address? The reason I ask is my kids play some games online, and these sites sometimes have a chat area, where the players can talk to each other while playing. Can my kids be tracked down in any way?"

By David L. Chaum Article pulled from Security-Protocols
Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms

Abstract 

A technique based on public key cryptography is presented that allows an electronic mail system to hide who a participant communicates with as well as the content of the communication - in spite of an unsecured underlying telecommunication system.  The technique does not require a universally trusted authority.  One correspondent can remain anonymous to a second, while allowing the second to respond via an untraceable return address.