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Underground homes in on Microsoft server flaw
News Microsoft's Web server software, called IIS, is supposed to prevent requests for any file that's not meant to be displayed on a Web page. But by including special characters in the URL, an attacker is able to circumvent the filter meant to prevent...
[October 18, 2000, 12:32]
Scumbag Alert: Tax Return Scam
Blog Cybercriminals will continue to develop their phishing skills and improve the appearance of their scams in order to lure more victims; therefore, we must continue to remain vigilant and wary of any requests for personal details or banking...
[March 17, 2009, 19:03]
Where is the logic in .Net?
News Postbacks are associated with any Web control event and are basically requests for processing sent to the server. While server requests are certainly not new to .Net, you do need to consider their frequency.
[October 15, 2002, 9:01]
Microsoft's patches: Can you trust them?
News According to Noel, Cisco routers by default are set to block requests from the Internet unless they have been explicitly authorised. The problem is that because of "laziness", the majority of routers have their default settings changed, which...
[July 16, 2003, 13:26]
FlexMail 4 NEW VERSION! and Best Email Winner: PPC Magazine 2007
Downloads Push Email Using IMAP IDLE, FlexMail gets immediate notifications of new messages Searching Search single or multiple folders for email within IMAP/POP3/SMS or ActiveSync accounts Rules Engine Full featured Rules Engine lets you move, reply, mark...
[January 24, 2003, 7:00]
Strengthen your network defences
News When a machine requests a connection, it also requests encryption. The ISA Server will proxy requests between users and the Web server. In this article, I'll focus on network defences, and provide four steps you can use to secure them.
[April 30, 2003, 15:45]
80/20 rule helps you work smarter, not harder
News Treat incoming requests like hot potatoes -- move them on as quickly as possible. This may seem contrary to the time management guidelines from Step Three, but if you've created your schedule with enough flexibility to handle ad hoc requests, this...
[July 10, 2002, 14:30]
New P2P tools mean quicker downloads
News A tracker is essentially a low-level server that keeps track of requests for a given file and directs the requests to the users offering the file. Going by names like eDonkey and BitTorrent, many of the latest generation of file-swapping tools have...
[May 27, 2003, 11:43]
Skype opens up to business phone systems
News In terms of requests from customers about opening up, this has been the one we've heard the loudest: to connect to existing phone systems. Oberg said that had received very few requests from its users to introduce interoperability with other VoIP...
[March 23, 2009, 8:00]
Easily configure Red Hat 8 and Apache
News You may need to pay particular attention to the Available Addresses area in the Main tab, where you will define the ports on which the server will accept incoming requests. Here, you can define additional ports for accepting requests.
[January 17, 2003, 20:35]
Zeus ZXTM 4.1 review
Reviews In addition to load balancing various services, ZXTM is also able to rewrite requests as they pass through the appliance. This capability can be used to redirect requests to specific servers. Requests are rewritten by ZXTM according to rules...
[April 19, 2007, 8:10]
Set up a Linux firewall with ease using Firestarter
News The Advanced setup starts out the same, allowing you to choose your network device and select how you want to handle ICMP and service requests. Alternately, you could create limit rules to accept only a certain number of requests every second.
[April 26, 2002, 9:26]
Skype Roundup
Blog Comment Presence reporting is unreliable, and often seemingly random; this makes it difficult to contact others, and can cause text messages and contact requests to be delayed by hours, days, weeks or more. Last, but certainly not least, Skype's space is...
[October 1, 2008, 12:56]
XML 6: Microsoft has adopted XML. Will it bring it up nicely?
News By providing a simplistic and flexible mechanism to send requests and responses that can piggy-back HTTP, Microsoft believes that with SOAP it can invoke remote procedures using the current Internet infrastructure.
[November 10, 1999, 11:03]
SCO claims attack intensifying
News An attacker, by sending a relatively small number of requests to a server, can essentially use up the target computer's resources. By Thursday morning, the attack had been reduced to some 3,000 packets per second and the company's servers were...
[December 12, 2003, 7:50]
Linux reaches 2.6 milestone
News The way it handles input-output requests are much improved in 2.6," he said. In some cases, a storm of read-and-write requests under 2.4 could overtax the computer to the point that it would crash, Stevens said.
[December 18, 2003, 7:55]
Static IP conundrum
News By using the Reservations system, he said, "You link the MAC address of a PC to an IP address, so that each time the machine requests an address it gets the same one. As for logging the requests as frankl_27 wanted to do, Moore said that the DHCP...
[October 1, 2002, 11:54]
Microsoft expo tunes into the home
News Microsoft will address requests for better security--no surprise given the UPnP vulnerability that emerged shortly after Windows XP was released. It will also address requests for use of IPv6, an Internet standard that permits many more devices to...
[April 16, 2002, 12:45]
Employers: Find out your workers' World Cup rights
News Remind employees that as the World Cup is not far away any requests for holiday during the tournament should be made as soon as possible. If applicable, you should make clear the basis upon which requests will be granted, e.g.in accordance with the...
[May 22, 2002, 14:53]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office review
Reviews Phone days free then £46 per request per incident free requests in first 60 days then $25 (~£12) per request n/a days free then £35 per incident n/a Email days free then £46 per request unlimited, free free requests in first 60 days then $20...
[October 1, 2007, 16:21]
