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RootPrompt.org August 30, 2000	A Stateful Inspection of FireWall-1 An analysis of Check Point FireWall-1 vulnerabilities resulting from protocol design flaws, problems in stateful inspection, common or default misconfigurations, and minor implementation errors discovered over the past few months in the lab, and verified in real-world penetration tests.
PC Magazine October 5, 2004 Sheryl Canter	You Need a (Properly Configured) Firewall Firewalls protect you in ways that antivirus software cannot, but only if they're set up correctly.
Popular Mechanics June 2007 Joel Johnson	Hack Attack: Is the Whole Internet at Risk? Some hackers recently tried to take down the entire World Wide Web. You didn't even notice because the Internet is so robust.
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RootPrompt.org May 7, 2001	Testing a Router or Firewall We do not present a generic high level method. Indeed, every network administrator has its own way to set up a device or to solve a problem. We emphasize on the low level method by presenting key points, which can be linked together in order to construct the method of every person...
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PC Magazine June 23, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel	How Secure Is Your Company? To protect your business, think like a thief.
PC Magazine October 14, 2003	The Lookout: Blaster and SoBig Move In The Blaster worm continued to tear through the Internet in August, followed almost immediately by an improved version of the SoBig worm, as security experts struggled to find and fix infected systems.
InternetNews August 15, 2005 Jim Wagner	Zotob Targets Windows Update Laggards A critical vulnerability in Microsoft's plug-and-play code can wreak havoc on unpatched PCs.
InternetNews April 20, 2004 Michael Singer	Flaw Puts TCP Data Transfer At Risk Officials say systems that rely on persistent TCP connections, such as routers supporting BGP, could be affected.
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Bank Technology News December 2010 Michael Sisk	Endgame Systems Finds Botnets in the Cloud Security software provider Endgame Systems raised $29 million in the fall and simultaneously launched ipTrust, a product meant to detect and manage the harm caused by malware and botnets in cloud computing environments
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PC World January 3, 2002 Joris Evers	Peer-to-Peer Apps Shared Trojan Horse Popular file-swapping programs installed spyware software even if users opted out, companies admit...
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PC Magazine March 7, 2008 Larry Seltzer	ID Theft: The Next Level The new virus Trojan.Silentbanker regularly patrols the Internet for banking sites it can manipulate.
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PC Magazine February 26, 2007 Robert P. Lipschutz	Perimeter eSecurity Vulnerability Assessment Taking a simple step can reveal holes in your small business's network.
Linux Journal April 2000 Preston F. Crow	The Linux Home Network Everything you need to know to make those Internet and intranet connections at home.
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InternetNews April 23, 2004 Ryan Naraine	'Osama Captured' e-Mail is Malicious Trojan The 'Osama Bin Laden Captured' e-mail hammering your in-box today will attempt to download a Trojan if the embedded URL is clicked.
PC World February 2006 Scott Spanbauer	Knowledge Is Power: Your Essential Internet Glossary Learn a few key terms to become more Internet savvy
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Riordan, Wespi & Zamboni	How to Hook Worms Because a computer network cannot ward off every last Internet worm, it must sound an alarm the minute one slithers inside.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Nicolas Boillot	Beating the Crunch There's no way around it: Internet Protocol version 6 is happening, but the benefits will be slight at first, and patience is required. Besides providing more addresses, IPv6 offers greater security and it has features that improve real-time applications.
Linux Journal April 1, 2007 Dinil Divakaran	Starting a Linux Firewall from Scratch Here are the basic steps involved in developing a firewall from scratch, using tools in Linux.
PC Magazine February 15, 2006 Matthew D. Sarrel	Business Body Armor All sorts of enemy combatants want to penetrate your network, but you can turn attacks aside with the right combo of hardware and tactics.
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PC Magazine July 1, 2003 Leon Erlanger	Ready for IPv6, Part 2 The new Internet Protocol (IP) standard promises to make connections more ubiquitous, efficient, and secure. But how will we implement it?
RootPrompt.org June 26, 2000 Lance E. Spitzner	Knowing When Someone Is Knocking Lance E. Spitzner tells us how you can protect yourself by detecting intrusion attempts and then covers what you can do about them.
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PC Magazine April 19, 2006	A Disconnecting Wireless Network Allocate the IP address permanently from the PC to avoid constant repairing of a connection after a computer has been in sleep mode.
InternetNews November 19, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Hackers Abuse Domain-Name Trust Cyber criminals have devised a new twist on the misspelled domain-name trick by hijacking IP addresses.
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Bank Technology News November 2007 Yuval Ben-Itzhak	The New Enemy: A Trojan Worse Than Phishing Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center discovered evidence of a new genre of crimeware Trojan that steals bank customers' identities without so much as leaving a trace.
InternetNews May 25, 2005	Cisco Patches DNS, VoIP Flaws Cisco issued a patch for a domain name system vulnerability that could put some of its routers and Voice Over IP products at risk for exploits.
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PC Magazine September 12, 2007 Neil J. Rubenking	Automate Network Configuration Changes I have a laptop and often need Internet access from multiple offices. Is there a way to store multiple configurations/IP addresses to eliminate having to remember and reenter the IP address?
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RootPrompt.org June 19, 2000 Noel D.	Trust and the System Administrator A System Administrator has a strange relationship with the equipment they manage, with the people using their system and with the world outside their systems. I will overview some of the choices and decisions that Sys Admins must understand when building or maintaining their systems.
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