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Network Security And Ethical Hacking – A Boon To Internet Age

August 26th, 2007

A group of people say that hackers are of no good to community. But we say that they are the most useful persons today on earth in the Internet Age. From when and where it started? It started from the very early age when computers were invented, i.e., in 1960′s when MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab became the staging ground for hackers. At that time, they were considered as persons with high mastery of computers. After then in 1970′s John Draper, most commonly known as Captain Crunch who invented making free long distance calls by blowing only a precise tone in telephone that tells the phone system to open a line. After Captain Crunch two members of California’s Homebrew Computer Club begin making Blue Boxes which were used to hack into phone systems. Do you know who the two persons were? They are two of the founders of Apple Inc. Can anyone tell what their names are? They are Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. In 1980′s came the main computer hacker groups who were the Legion of Doom in United States and the Chaos Computer Club in Germany. In later years of 1990′s, the malicious hackers become very powerful. In 1990′s Kevin Mitnick was arrested who now serves FBI to secure their data and has a firm known as Mitnick Securities. Simultaneously Hackers break into and deface websites which included U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Air Force, CIA, NASA and many more. And now in late 2000′s came a new name in the field of Network Security, GM Network Security, who provides platform to people to secure their systems, networks and websites so they can be assured of lesser hacking and virus attempts than before. Some services of GM Network Security are free of cost whereas some are charged at nominal rates. GM Network Security not only provides Security Solutions but also provides Graphic Designing, Programming Solutions and also provides Training Classes for same. Not only this, it also provides Unlimited Email Space. Some tips for securing your Wi-Fi networks are always change the admin password by going to 192.168.1.1. Also put WEP security encryption key on your Wi-Fi modem.

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The Most Popular Web Scripting Program – Php Programming

August 22nd, 2007

Hypertext Preprocessor Programming is popularly known as PHP which is a server-side Scripting based programming language. The meaning of Server-side script is the script that the server processes before the HTML files containing those scripts, which are transferred to the browser of the client. Basically, script PHP programming is programming software, which is used for the web hosting as well as web developing. In fact all web based platform and all web server does not allow PHP programming, which is executable to them. Now days the Win32 platform is one of the platform, which is not possible in PHP. The programmers of PHP should have knowledge of PHP programming have a demand in IT Community. There have many reasons by which the PHP population is still growing up.

These reasons for the popularity are as follows;

• The main root of the PHP programming is C and C++. In fact there have more find similarities with C and C++ syntax. MYSQL is basically the back-end tools of PHP. All the webmasters should make the websites dynamically.

• The Windows and UNIX operating system supports PHP.

• The output buffering of PHP language is very powerful, which helps in increasing output flow.

PHP has a dynamic property. It can works combined with HTML to displaying elements dynamic in nature on the web pages. One another thing is that, PHP did not parse anything outside of its delimiters and all those lifting elements are sent into the output.

Another important feature is that, PHP support all types of Relational Databases management systems. This combination is also worked in different O.S. Platform. In word, PHP programming is the new revolution of the world.

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Network Security A practical guide

August 18th, 2007

Network security is an important issue, because of the dependence and utilization of computer networks in order to store, access, and provide business information, internally within an organization and externally to customers and suppliers. The information held on your organization’s network plays a vital part in your organization’s day-to-day operations.

Everyone knows this, and if anyone has any doubt then take away their computer for a day or two! But, knowing this is often not enough to convince middle or senior management that network security is an important business issue.It is particularly suited to IS executives, administrators and managers who wish to review their own network security procedures or for those who simply want to learn more about thenetwork security issues that face their organization.

The book covers a broad range of issues, starting with an assessment of network security, including the financial implications of security breaches, and moving on to discuss the different types of security threats facing computer networks. Particular attention is also given to the legal framework for network security. Attention is then turned to increasing security awareness and readiness, including system configuration, acceptable use, business continuity, and explaining technical solutions available such as firewalls and content control.

Introduction of a security policy is widely accepted as best practise in informing and educating users, and the final chapter is devoted to policy writing. By the end of the book readers should be ready to create and implement a network security policy for their organization and start reducing overheads and downtime immediately! *Discusses all the relevant issues with a concise, straightforward, and readily accessible approach.

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Network Security Audits: Understanding The Importance Of Risk Assessment

August 10th, 2007

Security assessments and audits are vital aspects of managing a network. If your company has never completed one, you may be due to have it completed at this very moment. A network audit is recommended at least on a quarterly basis, occasionally this may be even more frequent, depending on your organisation’s needs.

In most of today’s demands for new technologies, you need to take the necessary procedures to protect yourself from perpetrators. Creating a network security audit is the first step in protecting all of your assets, physical and intangible, which can help save your company time and money.

What happens in your audit?

You have to list assets, review current threats, analyse each threat and develop a plan to counter issues that arise in your network. Some of the best networks are penetrated, but the likelihood of it happening again is rather low if the audits are done correctly.

List assets.

‘Assets’ are computers, company information, credit card numbers and other important physical technologies in your business. A few other tangibles include cameras, PDAs, laptops, mouse, and printers (mostly in small businesses). All of these pieces of equipment are important in identifying possible issues that happen when in use. If you want a thorough list of your inventory, it is time to make a tracking sheet that includes the users’ names, designated property and purpose of the assets in their possession.

Review current threats.

What are your current threats? It may include lack of password encryption, email hacks and even data backups that do not work. Many businesses have an exhausted list of problems that can arise, but it can lead you in the wrong direction. A professional network administrator will be able to address each asset’s threat in a comprehensive list if you feel overwhelmed.

Analyse each threat.

How does each threat interrupt your business operations? Network administrators and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are responsible for building a corresponding list that removes the mystery of security risks. The execution of the protective steps must be overviewed by professionals with experience – it is vital to get one of the UK’s finest IT networkers are available to help you.

When is it the most important?

A security audit is very important. You have to consider the possibilities of losing information if a backup defaults, employees entering unauthorised files, and potential hackers from outside the organisation. Without addressing these issues now, you can lose the power to control your business’ protection against an IT attack. Another crucial step in managing your security audit is to use the latest and most reliable network testing software to pinpoint issues that can harm your operations.

Preparation is the best way to prevent problems with your network. Security reinforcements and addressing issues early are smart steps towards prevention. Without a solid plan in place, there can be problems you cannot overcome in the future. If you are not sure that an audit is necessary, contact a local network administrator to discuss possibilities or points of interest regarding your company. There are problems circling your network that are unseen – keep them at bay by preventing occurrences now.

Derek Rogers is a freelance writer who writes for a number of UK businesses. For information on Network Auditing Services, he recommends Network 24.

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Network Security Revolution

August 2nd, 2007

Network security is always been the most concerning topic for the experts. Every one wishes to keep their network safe from hackers. We are in the age of network security revolution.

Many companies have been trying to launch a product that keeps the network safe from hackers. As the volume of data keeps increasing it is indispensable to focus on network security.

There are certain expectations from sender of data so that it reaches the receiver safely. The confidentiality of the users are greatly broken if the data is susceptible to hacking. There is a great need to maintain the confidentiality and data integrity. The users want to identify the sender of the message and the receiver must have the ability to prove that a message has been sent by the sender. Lots of money has been invested to bring a revolution in network security.

There are four aspects of network security which includes privacy, authentication, integrity, non-repudiation. The basic thing expected by any user of the network is privacy. Every sender expects only the receiver to receive the message. To all other people the method must not be in the readable form.

Authentication is another factor which expects the sender to take full ownership of the data and it prevents any hacker to compose data and send it in the name of the sender.

Integrity is the factor which expects the sender to receive data in the form sent by the sender and there must not be any change in the data while being received by the receiver.

Non repudiation is the factor which enables the receiver to prove that a message has been sent by the sender. This is an important point which is greatly expected by the users of the data.

Privacy of data is ensured by encryption and decryption techniques. Secret key encryption and decryption is a popular method in which a secret key is used by both the parties. These algorithms are normally called the symmetric algorithm as the use the same key in both the directions. Public key algorithm is another method and is rather easy as it employs a common key to decrypt the message. One can combine the public key and secret key algorithm to generate good mechanisms that guard’s privacy.

Digital signature is another method where the whole document is signed in order to maintain authentication, integrity. One can sign the document using public key encryption and a private key is used to encrypt while a public key is used to decrypt.

There is one more method called pretty good privacy which tries to guard all four aspects of security.

Access authorization is another method used to protect the security. It is based on a very simple concept where a person who requires entering must know a pass code. Thus it is based on archaic idea and it ensures good security.

There are also access authorizations techniques based on public keys where public and private keys are used by the requesting party.

There are lots of advancements in network security and many algorithms try to cover the loopholes in security in order to ensure a hacker free network.

Ali Bitazar is computer network security engineer

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PHP 4 end of life announcement

August 1st, 2007

On July 13th the Php Development team announced the end of Php4. They are not going to work on the new releases of php4 after this yr end that is after 31-12-2007 there will be no more releases of the Php4.

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