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- Appeals court: Damn the whales, full steam ahead
- It seems like every year at this time, the Navy wants to use sonar in training exercises off the California coast, and every time the issue winds up in court. This year, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gave the Navy the thumbs up, Reuters reports. There...
- Tags: Panel, Sonar, Mitigation, Navy, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Victim-Assisted mitigation Technique for TCP-Based Reflector DDoS Attacks
- This paper develops the concept of victim-assistance for Denial of Service (DoS) mitigation. The proposed concept is utilized within a simple, yet effective scheme designed for mitigating TCP-based reflector DoS attacks. The proposed scheme, called SYN number based filtering (SNF), takes into account the TCP's connection establishment behavior and the...
- Tags: Technique, Concept, Iowa State University, TCP, Mitigation, Distributed Denial Of Service, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Security
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Distributed Denial of Service Threats: Risks, mitigation, and Best Practices
- This white paper describes the value of the Cisco Guard solution for DDoS mitigation. It begins by explaining the risks of DDoS attacks and the unique demands of DDoS mitigation. Next, it describes how the Cisco Guard solution works. The paper concludes with deployment considerations, including operational planning and whether...
- Tags: Mitigation, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Building Disaster Resistant Communities
- Mitigation is the cornerstone of emergency management. It's the ongoing effort to lessen the impact disasters have on people and property. Mitigation involves keeping homes away from floodplains, engineering bridges to withstand earthquakes, creating and enforcing effective building codes to protect property from hurricanes - and more. Mitigation is defined...
- Tags: Mitigation
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- Worm mitigation Technical Details
- Internet worms have had a severe impact on many enterprise customers. Recently developed tools and architectural techniques can be employed to assist with the mitigation of worm activity in an enterprise environment. This paper provides; a conceptual overview of worm mitigation techniques; details for deployment of these techniques into an...
- Tags: Technique, Internet Worm, Mitigation, Tool, Productivity, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Security
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Additional Resources
- 10 reasons for IT failure
- 10 reasons for IT failureThe number one reason...I still say the number one reason for failure is the mind set that in some magical way IT project management is different than other diciplines. (Engineering projects as an example.)One of the short comings I see in most curriculum for computer...
- Tags: Strategy, Project management, information technology, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Eclipse AVN-6620
- Eclipse delivers an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, upgrade to its all-in-one in-car navigation and multimedia lineup with the AVN6620. The double-DIN system features a similar design to that of the AVN5510, with a combination of easy-to-use hard buttons on the bezel and a broadly intuitive touch-screen menu structure for control...
- Tags: Keyboards, Java development tools, AVN6620, Eclipse, GPS
- Product reviews 2008-04-16
- Apple bolsters QuickTime defenses... or do they?
- A couple of great articles came out recently, one from Ryan Naraine and one from our very own Larry Dignan, about some of the defenses that Apple is trying to build into QuickTime to defend Vista users. As we've talked about here before, with Vista, it's all...
- Tags: Apple QuickTime, Blog, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Data Execution Prevention, ASLR, David Maynor, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Blogging, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Sony MEX-BT5100 - radio / CD / MP3 player
- Forget add-on modules and external hands-free calling speakerphones. The easiest and cleanest way to make calls in the car is routing them through a built-in Bluetooth phone system. If you're among the majority of drivers who doesn't have a factory-installed calling system, Sony's MEX-BT5100 is a useful all-in-one stereo and...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, CD, radio, MP3, MP3 player, Sony MEX-BT5100, phone, joystick, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-04-07
- Secure Auditor (msi)
- Secure Auditor is a unified vulnerability nanagement solution which enables user to perform enumeration, scanning, auditing, penetration testing and forensics on different operational systems from single console with 30 embedded utilities like Cisco Configuration Manager, Oracle Password Auditor, Windows Password Auditor, Oracle Event Log Viewer, Windows Event Log Viewer, Oracle...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Secure Bytes, Secure Auditor, Secure Auditor Version, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-02
- Have a heart (attack): Defibrillators, pacemakers vulnerable to hackers
- Researchers have discovered that an implantable heart device, a combination of a defibrillator and pacemaker, is vulnerable to hackers. According to a study, authored by researchers at the University of Washington, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Harvard Medical School, hackers could get wireless access to a heart...
- Tags: Software, Patient, Researcher, Radio, Privacy, Hacker, Attack, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator, Implantable Medical Device, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Are Routers the Next Big Target for Hackers?
- I've recently seen a great Black Hat presentation by Felix (FX) Lindner (see pic 2) and a blog posting by Petko D. Petkov (PDP) (see pic 1) on the subject of hacking routers. What seems to be clear is that they are becoming a bigger target. PDP, of the gnucitizen group, recently...
- Tags: Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Researcher: Critical vulnerability found in VMware's desktop apps
- Core Security Technologies said Monday that it has discovered vulnerability in VMware's desktop virtualization software that allows an attacker to gain complete control a system and launch executable files on the host operating system. The discovery is notable given that virtualization security is largely uncharted territory. However,...
- Tags: Desktop, Vulnerability, Discovery, VMware Inc., Exploit, Core Security Technologies, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 RTM today
- Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 RTM todayMillions of users rejoiceWill this be the answer to the prayers of many, or will this be looked at as the bane of SP1. If I remember right, Windows XP SP1 was a bane rather than boon. SP2 was met with mixed...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Servers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Vista SP1 RTM today, Microsoft Windows Server, Vista SP1 RTM, server, SP1
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- MARS - Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System
- Instantly save $500 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends March 31, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsCisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (MARS) is a family of high-performance, scalable appliances for threat management, monitoring, and mitigation that enables you...
- Tags: Appliance, Network, Security Monitoring, Monitoring, Network Device, Cisco Systems Inc., Analysis, Networking
- Training 2008-02-01
- Risk Management
- View Available Dates and Locations Why be reactive, when you can be proactive? If you are tired of having to pull your team off critical path activities to deal with the crisis of the day, effective risk management is the solution. Risk management, as an integrated ...
- Tags: Risk Management, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Management
- Training 2008-02-01
- Radon is back because it never went away
- Radon is back because it never went awayPreventive measures and mitigationIt's fairly inexpensive for someone to have a venting system installed in a house as it's being built. This is highly recommended if the house has a basement and is in a radon-prone area. Aftermarket options are available, but are...
- Tags: Radon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, radiation
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- Symantec Energy Efficient Data Center Solutions: An Executive Overview
- Data Center power and cooling challenges are a chronic, inescapable fact for many enterprises. While server virtualization will provide some measure of relief, the relief will usually prove temporary. In the final analysis, it is important to recognize that, while hardware produces power and cooling challenges, software is a critical...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-12
- SND - Securing Cisco Network Devices
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this 5-day, entry-level network security course, you'll learn basic concepts such as network security policies, network attack methods, and threat mitigation techniques, along with the Cisco security product portfolio. You will examine the most important security technologies, including hardening Cisco IOS ...
- Tags: Cisco IOS, Network, Network Device, Cisco Systems Inc., Network Attack, Security, Networking
- Training 2008-01-01
- AQOS - Advanced Cisco Quality of Service
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis recently updated 5-day advanced course will teach you to design, configure, test, and troubleshoot end-to-end QoS for enterprise networks based on Cisco best practices. Campus QoS design and WAN QoS design are the two major focus areas of this course. Design considerations...
- Tags: QoS, Cisco Systems Inc., WANs, Networking
- Training 2008-01-01
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