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Trojan Horse imposter invades Unix
News Ironically, TCP Wrappers is a tool commonly used on Unix systems to monitor and filter connections to network services. After the program is downloaded, when the system administrator begins the installation process, it secretly sends e-mail to an...
[January 22, 1999, 17:03]
Surveillance: How your boss is watching you
News There is also an increasing variety of commercial software aimed at helping employers monitor and control the activities of their employees across a network and over the Internet. For network administrators, monitoring the data traffic on a network...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Proxim ORiNOCO AP-700 review
Reviews Moreover, on a large network, the Wavelink Mobile Manager software is a must-have in order to enforce security policies and monitor the wireless network without having to configure each access point individually.
[March 10, 2005, 12:10]
Government to build new email and surfing surveillance centre
News MI5 already has the power to monitor all voice telephone communications via the Echelon global surveillance network. She adds that the new centre will not be used to monitor email but to process suspect mail gathered by NCIS.
[May 2, 2000, 9:25]
Congress isn't swallowing Carnivore
News Carnivore is a program that the FBI has been developing for three years, and it allows federal law enforcement agents to monitor email communications in criminal investigations once the software is attached to the network of an Internet Service...
[July 25, 2000, 9:01]
Deceptive URLs and 'virtual' porn banned
News Imagine your own child visiting a Web site with a domain name that sounds like it contains educational or child-related materials, only to have a lewd image pop up on the monitor. During a debate over a bill to create a notification network for...
[March 28, 2003, 12:14]
London blasts leave mobile networks struggling
News O2's spokesman said: "The government certainly hasn't asked us to put any restrictions on network usage but we will continue to monitor the situation. A statement from the UK's largest network operator, Vodafone, said the excessive number of calls...
[July 7, 2005, 13:25]
Cern lab hones business tech of the future
News The lab is working with HP ProCurve on automated data collection, to allow the lab to monitor behaviour over its vast network, with 70,000 1Gb ports exchanging data within the Cern complex alone. Then you can find an abnormal data pattern to detect...
[October 20, 2008, 12:43]
Build a patch-management policy
News NetOps will monitor security mailing lists, review vendor notifications and Web sites, and research specific public Web sites for the release of new patches. Patch management is an issue that will always plague your organisation's network.
[August 29, 2006, 17:20]
Microsoft bans employees from music swapping
News The executives instructed employees to obtain permission before installing or running third-party peer-to-peer network software and warned that the company would occasionally monitor its internal network for file sharing activity.
[July 29, 2002, 9:07]
Is it OK to monitor employees?
News There is a positive obligation to be responsible and monitor what is going on in the network," he said. This means that companies needed to be thinking about the risk they were guarding against -- such as whether there was a need to monitor...
[July 10, 2002, 8:26]
Flaw in Cisco WLAN opens up skyjacking risk
News They should then use a separate intrusion detection system to discover whether someone is snooping on the network, as well as to monitor that all access points on a network are authorized, it added. Wireless local area network equipment from Cisco...
[August 28, 2009, 10:58]
Netgear WGT624 review
Reviews The LEDs on the front of the unit let you monitor data passing across the WGT624's Ethernet and wireless interfaces. Mentor features on-screen demonstrations for changing network settings in Windows, using Outlook on your network and browsing with...
[December 11, 2003, 9:05]
Hacktivists threaten World Bank meeting
News The centre recommended that system administrators monitor their own computer networks to prevent hackers from either staging attacks on their own networks, or using the network as a jumping-off point to attack a third party.
[September 24, 2002, 12:13]
Intel updates vPro
News Access Monitor keeps an audit trail of vPro-related security activities, such as unauthorised access attempts or malicious activity by a legitimate user. The key enabling component is an OS-independent 'out-of-band' network connection, run by an...
[September 22, 2008, 17:31]
McAfee attacks Symantec's product launches
News Enrique Salem said that Symantec did have device and USB enforcement products that integrated with Endpoint Protection 11.0, and had IPS, IDS and behavioural analysis capabilities within Endpoint to monitor devices on the network.
[June 14, 2007, 11:00]
Multilayer firewall strategy
News Also, what, who, and how do you want to monitor network access and Internet use? According to the CERT Coordination Center at the Software Engineering Institute (CERT/CC), the number of reported network security incidents has almost tripled in the...
[February 14, 2003, 20:07]
SecureWave makes proactive security claims
News SecureWave has announced Sanctuary 4.2, the latest version of its software designed to monitor and manage devices and applications on the edge of company networks. Reactive solutions also cannot detect or monitor the myriad of portable devices...
[May 21, 2007, 16:54]
McAfee unleashes the Falcon
News On top of these, a network manager in all products lets people monitor security on all systems on the home network. At the top of the line is the $79.99 McAfee Total Protection, which has wireless network security as the only distinguishing feature...
[August 2, 2006, 9:35]
Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'
News The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has attacked deep packet inspection, a technique used to monitor traffic on the internet and other communications networks. Targeted advertising services, such as Phorm in the UK, use deep...
[March 11, 2009, 15:11]
