There are plenty of ways to keep a network safe, and due to differences in price and scope, no solution is likely to act as a one-size-fits-all answer. Network professionals should perhaps know that the Sourcefire Intrusion Prevention System was named the Best Intrusion Detection/Prevention Solution at the 2011 SC Awards, however.
Keeping networks safe may soon become significantly easier thanks to fresh offerings from Cisco. Cisco has introduced new “context-aware” security solutions meant to keep everyone safe regardless of whether they use mobile technology, virtual working environments, or just about anything else.
While some people have trouble accepting it, it’s a simple fact that not everyone can be the best. Indeed, only one person or company can be the leader in any given field, with everything else following behind. But it is possible to learn from and/or work with the best, and in terms of IT and network services, Accent Computer Solutions recently topped one list.
I used to leech Internet access from a neighbor, but after they gave me grief about it, I set up my own wireless network and am paying for my own Internet. Good citizen, right? Problem is, every time I start up my trusty old MacBook it automatically picks my neighbor’s network and I have to explicitly switch it to use my own. Isn’t there some way to fix this annoying wifi network behavior??
When Nikki Craft woke up one morning recently and checked her websites, they were not working. In fact, all 20 of her high-traffic websites were down. After further investigation into the issue, she learned that the domain names had been suspended by the registrar due to invalid WHOIS data on the domain name WHOIS record–here web server was not down. Ms. Craft is among many domain name owners whose domain names have been suspended due to invalid WHOIS data.
Most companies devote a lot of energy towards not getting hacked, and that’s a smart thing to do. Having a backup plan – meaning an idea of how to act if hackers succeed in breaching a network – is a wise idea, too, though, and Gawker’s response to a hacking incident this weekend might represent a “teachable moment.”
The push for national broadband networks in countries around the world have reached new heights as the popularity and ubiquity of the Internet rises. Fiber optics promises to reach speeds impossible on copper lines, and many countries are proposing government subsidies to help spur the development of high-speed Internet connections to residential homes and businesses and hospitals of all sizes. Read More…
We covered the recent release of FireSheep, a Firefox plugin that easily allowed the hijacking of user sessions for popular websites such as Facebook. Although this plugin was intended to raise awareness of a vulnerability in the authentication system used by a large percentage of websites, it has widely been seen as a nuisance and dangerous piece of software. By making a somewhat technical process easy to use, it allows malicious users to gain unauthorized access in a way that they may not have previously been technically adept to do. Fortunately, BlackSheep has arrived to save the day; but what protections does it offer?
It was very common to see unsecured and open wireless networks when the technology was first emerging. As wireless networks and devices became more popular, awareness of how unsafe these open wireless networks really are also grew. Secure wireless technologies quickly became the norm, and now it often seems difficult to find an open/unsecured network. However, according to wireless surveying by wigle.net, almost 28% of wireless networks are still open. The dangers of these unsecured wireless networks are well documented, but a software aimed to raise awareness of this problem will only increase the threat these networks pose.
While nothing can match the surge in network business that presented itself with the birth of the World Wide Web, current network business opportunities arise from the current and logical interest in the virtualization of much of the hardware in the server room. Read More…