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About.com Internet / Network Security: What's Hot Now
These articles that had the largest increase in popularity over the last week

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| Intro to Firewalls |
An article on the basics of firewalls- what is it? how does it work? Talks about firewalls as the first line of perimeter network security to restrict access to your network. |
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| Hack Proofing Your Wireless |
book review of Hack Proofing Your Wireless Network by Christian Barnes, Tony Bautts, Donald Lloyd, Eric Oullet, Jeffrey Posluns, David Zendzian and Neal O'Farrell from your About.com Guide for Internet / Network Security, Tony Bradley |
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| Comp Security 101 (tm) |
A series of articles on computer security for home users. Computer Security 101 (tm) is a 10-part series of lessons about basic computer, network and Internet security. Lesson 1 introduces hosts, IP addresses, DNS, ISP and backbone. |
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| Windows Vista Backup |
A visual, step-by-step tutorial to illustrate how to backup and restore data in Microsoft Windows Vista |
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| Packet Sniffing |
A definition of the term packet sniffing |
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| HijackThis Logs |
HijackThis is a free and powerful tool you can use to analyze your computers Registry and files on the hard drive to identify components of spyware or browser hijackers. This How To, which is the official tutorial from the HijackThis web site (http://www.spywareinfo.com/%7Emerijn/htlogtutorial.html), will show you how to interpret the information generated in the HijackThis log file. |
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| SplashID App |
A brief profile of the SplashID app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. |
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| Windows XP Security "Flaw" |
article about windows xp security "flaw" allowing a user to bypass password security requirements by using the windows 2000 installation disc to boot a windows xp computer system |
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| Internet / Network Security - QuickTips |
An index of QuickTips for the Internet / Network Security guide site. |
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| Computer Security 101 |
computer security 101 lessons introduce basic computer and network security concepts, technology and terminology |
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| Introduction to IDS |
A brief article introducing the concepts of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)- how they work, what sorts of things they monitor for, what the results mean to you and how you might use an IDS to monitor for and detect suspicious or malicious activity on your network and alert you so that you can respond |
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| 02/09/2010 06:37 AM |
| Disable ActiveX |
A step-by-step guide, with screenshots for visual aid, for disabling active scripting in the Internet Explorer web browser. Turning off ActiveX can protect your computer from malicious JavaScript, VBScript and other Active Scripting malware. |
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| 02/09/2010 06:37 AM |
| Free Security Software |
Free tools to help you secure and protect your network from the following categories: firewalls, antivirus, virus removal, miscellaneous security, email spam blocking, spyware removal, pop-up and messenger spam blocking, vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection (IDS), packet sniffer, port scanner, encryption, enumeration, network monitoring and wireless network security. |
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| 02/09/2010 06:37 AM |
| The Da Vinci Code |
A review of the best-selling thriller The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It has only loose connections to cyber security or cyber fiction through some code-breaking and cryptography, but it is an excellent book. |
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| Foundstone FPort |
A brief profile of the FPort port scanning utility available for free from Foundstone, a division of McAfee |
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| 02/09/2010 06:37 AM |
| Change Default Password |
To secure your wireless access point or router you need to change the default username and password used to access the administration screen and change the configuration settings |
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| 02/09/2010 06:37 AM |
| Vista Password Policy |
A step-by-step tutorial for configuring Password Policy in Windows Vista Local Security Policy - Account Policy settings. |
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| 02/09/2010 06:37 AM |
| Introduction to Security Tools |
Free Email Course On Computer and Network Security Tools and Technologies |
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| 02/09/2010 06:37 AM |
| ZA Force Field |
Zone Alarm, a division of Checkpoint, has released a new tool designed to protect users from malicious web sites. Zone Alarm Force Field provides a toolbar and some simple tools to help users surf the Web safely. |
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| 02/09/2010 06:37 AM |
| Right Of Privacy |
There is an assumed or implied Right Of Privacy in the United States. Many think it is rooted in the Constitution, but not without a good deal of interpretation. There are many statutes and regulations that guard personal information, but security and privacy generally come at the expense of freedom and convenience. It is up to you to make an educated choice about where you want the balance to be. |
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| Windows Live OneCare |
A review of Microsoft's comprehensive security and PC health suite, Windows Live OneCare |
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Nsauditor
Network Security Auditor Nsauditor
Network Security Auditor is a network
security scanner that allows
to
audit and monitor network computers for
possible vulnerabilities,
checks your network for all potential methods that a
hacker might use to attack it. Nsauditor is a complete
networking utilities package that includes a wide range
of tools for network auditing, scanning, monitoring
and more. You can discover network services and check
them for vulnerabilities, list all TCP and UDP endpoints
with their associated process, discover NetBios names,
audit MS SQL servers, scan for common Adware traces
and more. The program also includes real-time network
packet filtering and analyzing, web proxy scanning,
password auditing, IP address lookup
and more than 45 network
tools for scanning, sniffing, enumerating and gaining
access to machines, DNS and
WHOIS lookups, e-mail validation, HTTP traffic generator
and intrusion detection based on security events log.
Reports can be generated in HTML and XML format. Overall,
this is a very complete package for a surprisingly low
price.
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SpotAuditor
- Internet Explorer, Outlook and MSN messenger password
recovery
SpotAuditorreveals
passwords saved in Internet Explorer, recovers ICQ,
Trillian, Miranda IM, VNC, Far ftp client, SecureFX
ftp client, FileZilla, WebDrive Ftp, FTP Voyager, AutoFTP,
32bit FTP, FTP Navigator, Dial-up, RAS, VPN, Outlook,
MSN messenger, Windows Live Messenger 8 and Windows
Messenger passwords, IE Auto Complete Fields and recovers
passwords stored behind the asterisks in password text-boxes.
It is a program for viewing and cleaning the secret
data stored by Internet Explorer. SpotAuditor allows
deletion of unwanted entries from the system protected
storage and explores Outlook Accounts, Visited URLs,
Installed Programs and Start Run Programs on a local
machine or remote computers. SpotAuditor allows to clear
Internet Explorer history, delete cookies and temporary
internet files. You can recover and restore any lost
or forgotten password ever entered in Internet Explorer.SpotAuditor
instantly cracks and decrypts passwords stored on your
computer!
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NetShareWatcher
- Monitors Network Shares and Identify Shares which
are
Violating Data Access Policy
It allows network administrators
to monitor
network shares and identify
shares which are violating data
access policy in their organization.
NetShareWatcher is very handy. You
can configure it once and forget about network sharing
problems. You need just select restricted groups or
users and every time when NetShareWatcher
will find network share with access list containing
that restricted groups and will perform an configured
action. It allows you to easily monitor
network shared folders and
permissions. NetShareWatcher alerts anytime an user
sets a share ACL to "Everyone" or some other
global group that violates your data access policy as
well as disable this shared folders automatically if
you have selected appropriate feature in the settings.
NetShareWatcher has user friendly interface and is easy
to use. Being configured once, it will regularly notify
you on network sharing detection with restricted permissions
assigned.
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BlueAuditor - detecting and monitoring Bluetooth devices in a wireless network
BlueAuditor
is a wireless
personal area network auditor
and easy-to-use program for detecting
and monitoring Bluetooth devices in
a wireless network. It can discover and track any Bluetooth
device within a distance between 1 and 100 meters and
display key information about each device being detected
as well as the services device provided. With the growing
popularity of the Bluetooth
technology,BlueAuditor
will enable network administrators to effectively
audit their wireless networks against security vulnerabilities
associated with the use of Bluetooth devices. BlueAuditor
enables the user to save the data of the detected Bluetooth
devices in an .xml file and supports the most Microsoft
Bluetooth drivers available on the market. All the mentioned
features are provided with a user friendly graphical
interface
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RemShutdown - allows Shutdown or Restart Network Computers Remotely
RemShutdown
allows shutdown
or restart network computers remotely. You
can specify a delay during which a message you specify
can be displayed and applications running on the remote
computer at the time of shutdown can be allowed to close.
In addition, RemShutdown offers the user the option
to cancel the shutdown. The tool is designed with a
user-friendly interface and is easy to use.
Download Here |
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Product Key
Explorer |
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Product
Key Explorer displays product key for Windows, MS Office,
SQL Server and more than 500 popular software products
installed on your local or remote network computers.
In order to install or reinstall Microsoft Office, Windows,
or other commercial software, you must have access to
a product serial key (CD Key) for that product. Product
Key Explorer retrieves serial keys from network computers
and allows to protect your company from having pirated
software on your network. With this software you will
be able to track the number of software licenses installed
in your business, find and recover a lost or forgotten
product keys, save and keep an up-to-date backup of
all your software license keys in a central location.
Excellent tool for network administrators, or businesses
undergoing a software license compliancy. You can save
product keys as Tab Delimited Txt File (.txt), Excel
Workbook (.xls), CSV Comma Delimited (.csv), Access
Database (.mdb), Web Page (.html) or XML Data (.xml)
file, Print or Copy to Clipboard.
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NetworkSleuth - Network
File Search Utility
NetworkSleuth
is a fast file search tool, that allows search for files
located on local or network computers and supports searches
for documents, image, MP3, music and video files, allows
to search for files in Local Area Network(LAN) based
on various criteria.
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