By Dr. Jim Kennedy, MRP, MBCI, CBRM, CHS-IV

It seems to me that almost every day I pick up some type of IT, Information Security, or Business Continuity magazine or journal and find that there is an article or headline story on the latest data breach. These are not mom and pop shops or small businesses they are happening at major corporations and governmental organizations. The breaches involve millions of customer files, or thousands of medical records, or critical intellectual property that has either been taken for fraudulent use or simply lost and no one in authority can account for its whereabouts.

By www.microsoft.com
The information in this article applies to: 
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
This article was previously published under Q223301 
SUMMARY
This article discusses the security of the offline Security Accounts Manager (SAM) and the accounts in it.

By astalavista.net

The HTTP 1.x protocol has a built in mechanism for requiring a valid username/ password to gain access to web resources. This mechanism is known as HTTP Authentication and can be initiated by either a CGI script or by the web server itself.

What is an IP address?

IP stands for Internet Protocol, IP addresses are used by other computers to identify computers that connect to
them. This is how you can be banned from IRC, and how they can find your ISP. IP addresses are easily obtained, they
can be retrieved through the following methods:

By Christopher Okoh

Laptops are quite expensive, hence the risk of being stolen. Laptops are smaller, easy to travel with, because of these, its patronage is on the increase. Laptops because of their new processing power is a delight of most companies today.

One of the most common scenarios for a distributed application involves reading and writing data on a remote database. The dilemma that arises is how to do so securely while maintaining application scalability. Where you choose to manage security in your application will greatly impact, either negatively or positively, the scalability of your application.

With the unparalleled rise of the internet and use of email in the last decade it is no surprise that email has become one of the most useful and effective tools for companies of all kinds to sell and market their products. Similar to its older brother "snail mail", businesses use email to contact interested customers and potential customers who have not expressed direct interest in the product or service they offer. Because of the monumental increase in junk or "spam" mail being sent to unsuspecting email addresses around the world, nearly all email servers have some layer of protection for their email clients so their inboxes are not being abused and filled up by unsolicited email.

By Rory J. O'Connor Technorati Tag: Cracking and Hacking Police, prosecutors and most of the press call them "hackers." Computer cognoscenti prefer the term "crackers." Both sides are talking about the same people, typically young men, whose fascination with computers leads them to gain access to computers where they don't belong.

By K1u http://k0h.org

What are CHMOD's? To break it down basically they are rules or permissions. It stands for CHange MODe.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------