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Proxy Servers Boost Spam
News Some owners of blocklists -- which research spam complaints and list the IP addresses of suspected spammers -- blame software developers of the various proxy servers for leaving them open on installation by default.
[September 23, 2002, 11:31]
Design, Implementation And Performance Of Resource Management Scheme For TCP Connections At Web Proxy Servers
White Papers On the current Internet, however, a significant amount of Web document transfer requests are sent through Web proxy servers. However, there has been little concern regarding improvements of the performance of Internet servers in spite of the...
[December 6, 2007, 23:00]
Secure Remote And Outbound Internet Access Using ISA Server 2006 Web Proxy
White Papers Web proxy servers act as intermediaries between client and server. A popular and powerful solution to the problems of secure Web access is a Web proxy. Web proxy devices help enable a company to control the flow of information moving over Web...
[September 7, 2006, 0:00]
Plug Pulled On Anti-spam Project
News It aimed to stop spammers using SMTP proxy servers — also known as open mail relays — to flood the internet with junk mail. These proxy servers were initially used as 'middlemen' to move email from source to destination rather than sending them...
[December 22, 2006, 10:14]
RSA Sees Increase In Fast-flux Botnets
News Fast-flux can also be associated with the allocation of proxy servers to hide static command-and-control servers in botnets. Senior RSA researcher Uriel Maimon told ZDNet.co.uk that RSA had recently seen a gang using a combination of fast-flux DNS...
[March 18, 2008, 11:56]
MCI Accused Of Harbouring Spammers
News This enables spammers to use these compromised computers, or zombies, as proxy servers to send masses of emails without the owners' knowledge. Because MCI WorldCom not only know they are hosting the Send-Safe spam operation, MCI's executives know...
[February 7, 2005, 17:45]
Save By Proxy With Cisco IOS
News Most proxy servers can perform all of these tasks. Many organisations use proxy servers to improve performance (through caching Web pages and graphics), to filter requests to certain sites, to make sure that only certain users can get to the...
[May 8, 2002, 11:51]
Microsoft's Gopher Hole Deepens
News Microsoft deemed the threat critical for client computers running Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 and for Internet or intranet servers running Proxy Server 2.0 or ISA Server 2000. Uncheck the "automatically detect settings" box and check the...
[June 13, 2002, 9:08]
Experts Warn Of IE Gopher Hole
News We have not investigated any particular proxy servers on this issue. They should then open the "Use proxy server for your LAN" box and access the "Advanced Tab. Interestingly, this compels users to check the proxy server box, which is off by default.
[June 6, 2002, 7:32]
Deploying A Scalable Web Caching Solution
News Copies cached locally are only helpful when the user accesses the pages frequently from the same machine.Proxy cache:Proxy servers are separate machines that cache Web objects for multiple users/client computers in the organisation.
[March 23, 2006, 13:35]
Debug SOAP Apps
News Because the tool is a generic proxy, you can use it to monitor HTTP and SOAP messages to Microsoft IIS servers, Apache Web servers, Tomcat, WebLogic, or any other HTTP server. The TCP Tunnel/Monitor application is really just a simple proxy...
[January 30, 2003, 14:33]
War On Spam Turns To Open Proxies
News The term "open proxy" refers to the situation when a server allows network connections from anyone, to anywhere, on arbitrary ports and with arbitrary protocols. Connections made via open proxies are often non-accountable, since the open proxy...
[January 2, 2004, 15:55]
Hotmail Sets Email Limits
News An alarming number of people are unwittingly helping junk mailers shuttle spam by running software meant to allow multiple connections over a LAN (local area network) to the Internet through a single line, or what's known as proxy servers.
[March 24, 2003, 11:58]
CES: Fiorina Puts Industry In The Picture About Merger
News You're probably expecting to hear a stump speech about mergers and proxy votes and family legacies. So Fiorina closed the speech with a pointed attempt to reclaim the HP legacy from Walter Hewlett and the other scions of founders William Hewlett...
[January 9, 2002, 9:47]
Netscape Founder Brings Instant Extranets To Europe
News This proxy mechanism means you don't have to make any changes either to the client PCs or to the servers," said Matlof. And more recently, Burton-on-Trent-based Lansition began distributing the Netilla service platform in the UK -- a hardware...
[October 29, 2002, 14:48]
Barracuda Bites Back At Trend Micro Patent Claims
News Following months of legal communications with Barracuda Networks, Trend Micro is suing its rival over its use of ClamAV — a product maintained by US open-source company Sourcefire — on the grounds that Barracuda Network's use of the software in...
[January 30, 2008, 11:57]
Denial Of Service And Distributed Denial Of Service Protection
White Papers To obtain full protection for DoS attacks, organizations typically need to purchase multiple proxy servers, network security devices, intrusion preventions systems, as well as software packages, updates, and expanded licenses as an organization...
[August 4, 2005, 0:00]
Microsoft Says Firefox 'not A Threat To IE'
Talkback FireFox *does* work with proxy servers. I haven't tested the 1.0 release at work yet (where we are running the MS proxy server), but my current FireFox installation prompts me to login to the proxy and then allows me to surf the Internet normally.
[November 11, 2004, 20:40]
General Firewall White Paper
White Papers This paper covers firewalls and proxy servers in general. This white paper talks about defensive strategies to be applied while implementing firewalls, how to classify firewalls, screening router (Packet Filters), proxy server gateways, inspection...
[September 16, 2007, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Uses SQL Server 2005 To Power A Global Forensic Data Security Tool (Level 300)
White Papers The Microsoft Information Security team uses an internal tool called Information Security Consolidated Event Management (ICE) version 3.0 to gather forensic data from more than 85 proxy servers around the world.
[August 28, 2007, 0:00]
