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Understand how intrusion prevention systems (IPS) use attack signatures

This sample chapter, taken from Intrusion Prevention Fundamentals, examines signature types, signature triggers, and signature actions. Learn how IPS devices use signatures to identify activity in your network traffic and on hosts on your network.This sample chapter, taken from Intrusion Prevention Fundamentals, discusses signature characteristics, signature types,...

Tags: Intrusion Prevention System, Cisco Systems Inc., Signature Type, Intrusion Prevention, Security

Book chapters 2006-01-11

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Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines

In a direct challenge to the popular Wikipedia, Google opened Knol, an encyclopedia-like wiki site that requires writers to post their names and expertise. SAN FRANCISCO--Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a...

Tags: Google Inc., DuPont Co., Web Site, Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Reuters, Google, encyclopedia

News items 2008-07-24

McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position

Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...

Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23

75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws

In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...

Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Mika's Touch Type Trainer (zip)

Mika's Touch Type Trainer is the most popular Touch Type Tutor in Japan. First it was developed in 1991, and publicized as free software. Since then many schools had adopted this Mika's Touch Type Trainer to teach computer literacy. Originally this Mika' Touch Type Trainer was made in Japanese Language....

Tags: School, Japan, Jiro Imamura, Mika, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-23

Typezone (zip)

This program allows you to change the font and type easily for video tutorials. With type zone choose the font in one click. This program is easy and safe. The product is welcome to be submitted and hosted on other sites. Please just make sure the creators Name is Probot....

Tags: Video, Font, Probot, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-23

Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard

Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboardLarge services such as this can not...are too big to manage. Managing this type of technology with technology will time after time result in mismanagement. Just like Gmail and other that are spamming the Internet.Networks require real human intervention to manage properly. Anything less is...

Tags: Spam, Twitter, anti-spam, anti-spam effort

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

The empire strikes back: Can Microsoft's ads cure my Vista psychosis?

Microsoft is ready to launch its campaign to save Vista's reputation, which has been formed by the software giant's miscues as well as Apple's funny ads. The big question: Is this a mess that Microsoft can market its way out of? Ed Bott found the first hints...

Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-22

A look at the recent Firefox 3 vulnerability

True to form, Billy Rios promised a more in depth look at the MSFA2008-35 vulnerability which is another protocol handler flaw in Firefox 3.  As previously reported here, this was another protocol handler flaw that led to arbitrary remote command execution, and is especially dangerous since it can be deployed...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Protocol Handler, Firefox3, Security Decision, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Zuora: the future business model?

I recently caught up with Tien Tzou, CEO of Zuora, the billing management company that offers Z-billings, an on-demand service. In his opinion, the business model of the future will be subscription based and this brings challenges of its own. "Pricing is a much more complex...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Billing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Apache's open source governance model

Apache's open source governance modelI give Murph a 10 on this onentMike Cox couldn't beat this one...NTIIS dominates the market, of courseThough Apache has almost half the web servers in use, the more important number is the Fortune 1000 result. There Microsoft has 55% vs Apache's 25%, with Microsoft...

Tags: open source, Microsoft IIS Server, Apache Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

The evolution of search over traditional BI

Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...

Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio

News items 2008-07-22

Auto Typer and Clicker (rar)

With this program, you can just let it type text for you. You just type in the text, add some colors and effects on it only works on RuneScape an just let it type. You can also let it click every 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 every speed...

Tags: Program, ViBaGO, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-22

InstantNavigator for OneNote (zip)

InstantNavigator is a productivity plug-in that enhances Microsoft OneNote with an instant quick-as-you-type search capability. Once installed, InstantNavigator lets you find a note in much the same way as Vista Instant Search just start typing the first letters of a keyword into the search box and get the note youre...

Tags: Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, ExtraMind Systems, InstantNavigator, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-22

Citizen journalism and traditional news

Citizen journalism and traditional newsHere's a way to learn and improveRecord your video and then DON'T look at it right away. go do something else and look at it at least an hour later. Then see what you did wrong. Think about that but don't do it...

Tags: Corporate communications, Blogging, Planning, consciousness, Citizen Journalism, video

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week wait

iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week waitAT&T?Thanks for the link. Does AT&T still has inventory? On a store by store basis?RE: iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week waitI placed a special order last week. I wonder if this is going to delay that. I was really...

Tags: Cellular phones, Apple marketing, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, phone, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Sony's amazing crapware-free PC

Sony's amazing crapware-free PCWhat's really sad.......is that you didn't bother to read the part where it says Sony quickly changed its mind about charging for crap-free PCs before running your yap.WrongAs John E notes, no customer has ever been charged for this option and the decision to charge was canceled...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Sony Corp., PC

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

The computer mouse set to die out in the next five years? Don't bet on it!

The computer mouse set to die out in the next five years? Don't bet on it!I've used perfect Voice Recognition--it still sucksWant to experiment with perfect VR? I did! Here's how:Have a friend (who is willing to be your input device for a full 8 hour day) type for you...

Tags: Mice, Keyboards, mouse, computer, computer mouse, keyboard

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Mediapad (zip)

Instead of having notepad and two media players playingyou can do the following with you on-screen tutorialPlay musicPlay videoTypePlay video and music and the same timeSave the text fileType full screenChange the font size to your needs. Version 2 allows you to save your text, and type full screen.

Tags: Font Size, Mediapad, Media Players, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-21

MB Blood Type Inheritance (exe)

MB Blood Type Inheritance is a blood type determination tool for your child. This is based on the genetic inheritance of a blood type from a parent to a child. MB Blood Type Inheritance is an interesting software with a simple to use interface. The result thus generated by the...

Tags: Software, Blood, MysticBoard, MB Blood Type Inheritance, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-21