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• BUILDING WALLS DOESN'T ANSWER SECURITY NEEDS. Winn Schwartau recently spoke with Investor's Business Daily about his idea.
  
  
• Desktop Firewalls: Defense in Depth Personal Firewalls: Some thoughts and comments on Signal9 by WInn Schwartau. Truth in advertising disclaimer: they sell their products in our store. It's a good product and one of the reasons we have it.
  
  
• ISSalert: ISS Security Advisory: ICMP Redirects Against Embedded Controllers - (December 10th, 1998)
  
  
• SECURITY BEST PRACTICE - KNOW YOUR ENEMY.
  
  
• Finjan Offers Safe Internet Surfing Tips for the Holidays Simple Precautions Help Ensure Electronic Holiday Greeting Cards or On-Line Shopping Orders
  
  
• The JavaScript Cache Browsing Bug Netscape has recently been alerted to a security vulnerability that affects the Netscape Navigator browser software.
  
  
• Inevitable Failure of CompsecThe Flawed Assumption of Security in Modern Computing Environments
  
  
• Microsoft Addresses Another IE Hole Another security hole discovered and supposedly fixed!
  
  
• E&Y (Ernst and Young) Global Information Security Survey Business vulnerable to information security paralysis
  
  
• Centrax Security Software Offers Free, Unlimited Usage of Intrusion Detection Tool
  
  
• Microsoft Shuts Web Site After Security Lapse
  
  
• Internet Security Breaches Caused By Apathy - Report
  
  
• Serious Security Flaw in Excel 97 Using Pivot Table
  
  
• Leading Security Experts Identify Top 5 Information Security Concerns for Corporations in 1999
  
  
• ISS Ships New Version of Market-Leading Security Vulnerability Detection Solution
  
  
• Finjan To Announce Mobile Code Gateway Screening
  
  
• Commerce Team Works On Infrastructure Protection
  
  
• Improving Data Access Security
  
  
• Security Initiative Launched to Aid Industry Leaders and Protection of Nation's Critical Infrastructure Project Spotlight to be the First Full Scale, Quantitative Information Security Risk Study
  
  
• Project Spotlight Security Initiative Unveiled
  
  
• Project Spotlight Security Initiative Launched
  
  
• LEADING SECURITY EXPERTS IDENTIFY TOP 5 INFORMATION SECURITY CONCERNS FOR CORPORATIONS IN 1999.
  
  
• Cisco Reports New Security Error In IOS
  
  
• CISCO FAULT AIDS HACKERS
  
  
• New Security Threat To Windows NT Centrax Corp. announced that it has detected a new class of security threat to users of Microsoft Corp.'s [NASDAQ:MSFT] Windows NT platform.
  
  
• Vendors Take On Mail Security Flaws
  
  
• Similar Internet Explorer Security Problem
  
  
• Internet Security Javascript Bug in Netscape Communicator 4.5 Apparently neither M$ nor Netscape can produce a secure browser!!!
  
  
• Major Explorer 4 Security Bug?
  
  
• Plugging Holes In SNMP
  
  
• ISS Security Advisory November 2nd, 1998 Hidden SNMP community in HP OpenView
  
  
• ISS Security Advisory Hidden community string in SNMP implementation - (November 2, 1998)
  
  
• ISS Security Advisory BMC PATROL File Creation Vulnerability - (November 2, 1998)
  
  
• ISS Security Advisory"Snork" Denial of Service Attack Against Windows NT RPC Service - (September 29, 1998) The ISS X-Force has been researching a denial of service attack against the Windows NT RPC service.
  
  
• ISS Security Advisory Windows Backdoors Update - (September 10, 1998) This advisory is an update of our cDc Back Orifice advisory, which was released August 6, 1998.
  
  
• ISS Security Alert Summary Volume 3 Number 2 – (November 06, 1998) 6 Reported Vulnerabilities: Solaris-hidden-comm-string, HPOV-hidden-SNMP-comm, BMC-PATROL-file-create, Mac-FWB, IBM-automountd, SGI-autofsd
  
  
• ISS Security Alert Summary Volume 2 Number 10 – (September 18, 1998)5 New Vulnerabilities: Novell-NDS, Sun-ping, Webcam32-bo, HP-dtmail, IIS-exedir
  
  
• ISS Security Advisory "Snork" Denial of Service Attack Against Windows NT RPC Service
  
  
• CERT* Summary CS-98.07
  
  
• Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS98-014) Update available for RPC Spoofing Denial of Service on Windows NT
  
  
• NETWORK ASSOCIATES INC. - CYBER SLEUTHS KEEP TABS ON NETWORK SECURITY.
  
  
• Directive Will Help Shore Up Security, Experts Say
  
  
• ISS Teams Up with Singlepoint Systems to Provide Industry's First, 'Security Hotline' for Anytime, Anywhere Responses to Break-ins
  
  
• High tech: Higher risk? -- Survey says access to ...
  
  
• COMPANY AIMS TO FILL SECURITY GAP WITH ITS NETWORK SCANNER - DETECTION HOLDS KEY FOR ISS BUSINESS.
  
  
• NAI Discovers Huge Unix Internet Security Hole
  
  
• Taking an Integrated Approach To Security
  
  
• Security Update: Network Associates Security Research Team Discovers Internet Server Security Threat
  
  
• ISS Vulnerability Alert September 1, 1998 Remote Buffer Overflow in the Kolban Webcam32 Program
  
  
• ISS Security Advisory August 31, 1998 Executable Directories in IIS 4.0
  
  
• Content Technologies Publishes Threat Watch E-Letter
  
  
• Acceptable Risks In The Digital Economy, Security Breaches Are Inevitable. The InformationWeek/Pricewaterhouse Coopers Global Security Survey Reveals How E-Commerce Is Raising The Stakes, And How Far Companies Will Go To Ward Off Intruders.
  
  
• MAKING E-MAIL SECURE - HERE'S HOW S/MIME CAN SAFEGUARD YOUR COMMUNICATION-AND WHY IT SOMETIMES DOESN'T...
  
  
• Key Internet Security Hitch Resolved -Researchers
  
  
• THE SLOW NET OF SUSPICION.
  
  
• Network Security: The Need For Speed
  
  
• Still More E-Mail Flaws Discovered
  
  
• Another security flaw found in popular e-mail program
  
  
• Security Blanket The Internet moves fast. And network managers who haven't taken time over the past 12 months to review and update their company's security policies may be exposing the business to security risks at all levels.
  
  
• Company Fixes E-mail Security Flaw A software manufacturer has corrected a security flaw that could enable a hacker to destroy data or plant a virus on computers that run the company's popular Eudora e-mail program.
  
  
• Sendmail Posts Fix For Email Glitch If you are running Sendmail 8.9.1, this might interest you. Supposedly a pre-emptive fix to the long file name problem in mail handlers
  
  
• Article On Biometrics In Wall St J.
  
  
• ****QuickMail NOT affected by E-mail Security Issue****
  
  
• Security Flaw Revealed In A Third E-mail Program
  
  
• Eudora Pro Security Alert
  
  
• Flaw Found In Qualcomm E-mail Software
  
  
• Glitch Hits Intuit, AmEx Customers Using Quicken
  
  
• Flaw Found in E-mail Program
  
  
• ISSalert: ISS Security Advisory: Cult of the Dead Cow Back Orifice Backdoor - (August 6, 1998) A hacker group known as the Cult of the Dead Cow has released a Windows 95/98 backdoor named 'Back Orifice' (BO). Once installed this backdoor allows unauthorized users to execute privileged operations on the affected machine.
  
  
• Networked Business & Information Security News (NBISN)
  
  
• IBM to Give Away PKI Source Code IBM plans to ignite its e-business initiative and electronic commerce in general by giving away the source code for its implementation of the emerging standard for creating a public key infrastructure (PKI).
  
  
• SECURITY FLAW IS NOT FATAL.
  
  
• E-Mail Security Flaw Found
  
  
• CERT* Advisory CA-98.09 Topic: Buffer Overflow in Some Implementations of IMAP Servers
  
  
• AUSTRALIA: SECURITY IS A "NOW' ISSUE.
  
  
• WORKING IT OUT - SO YOU WANT TO SURF SAFELY ...
  
  
• SAME OLD SCAMS TRIED ON NEW VICTIMS IN CYBERSPACE.
  
  
• Cisco Backs Backdoor For Internet Wiretaps
  
  
• SKILLS FILE - HOW TO ... DEVELOP SECURITY FOR VPNS. Virtual private networks have many security issues that other systems do not, writes Nick Farrell.
  
  
• Internet Intricacies: Don’t Get Caught in the Net by James T. Kennedy, Ph.D., NCE
  
  
• ISSalert: Distributed DoS attack against NIS/NIS+ based networks.
  
  
• Canadian Survey Finds Firms Vulnerable To Internet ...
  
  
• Information Security: Serious Weaknesses Put State Department and FAA Operations at Risk. (126K) in Adobe .pdf format. - T-AIMD-98-170. 16 pp. May 19, 1998.
  
  
• TECHNOLOGY PLUS - UNDER LOCK & KEY - IT'S SELLER BEWARE, TOO, UNTIL NET SECURITY IS REFINED.
  
  
• Piracy on the digital seas
  
  
• Middle East Software Piracy is World's Second Highest
  
  
• CORE-SDI-04: SSH insertion attack [I know a lot of you will have already seen this, but it is worth forwarding considering how many people use ssh these days. - Nick]
  
  
• ISS Security Advisory June 10, 1998 Remote Buffer Overflow in the rpc.nisd program.
  
  
• Firm finds big security holes in Windows NT protocol
  
  
• ISSalert: ISS Security Alert Summary v2 n6
  
  
• "Organization and Business Case Model for Information Security" including four case studies.
  
  
• Computer Security
  
  
• A look at Canada's network security By Mary McGugan
  
  
• What they never told you about VPNs By Winn Schwartau
  
  
• New Wave Of Intrusion Detection
  
  
• ISSalert: ISS Security Alert Summary v2 n5
  
  
• ISS Security Alert Summary April 3, 1998 Volume 2 Number 4
  
  
• Great Walls of Fire An article about Firewalls from "Computing", U.K.
  
  
• E-MAIL SECURITY PROVES VITAL E-mail means inexpensive, instantaneous communication, but it also can mean legal ramifications for corporations if security is not taken seriously.
  
  
• Internet Watch Foundation launches a consultation paper on "Rating and Filtering Internet Content - A United Kingdom Perspective"
  
  
• INTERNET SCANNER FILLS THE HOLES - 5.0 UPGRADE STRENGTHENS VULNERABLE SPOTS IN YOUR COMPANY'S SECURITY
  
  
• NEW TECHNOLOGIES HAVE OPENED UP OPPORTUNITIES FOR CRIMINALS AND POLICE ALIKE, REPORTS JANET FIFE-YEOMANS
  
  
• Delayed Clinton Internet plan to spark debate
  
  
• Keep cyberspace a free-trade zone
  
  
• Congress may crack down on online vice
  
  
• SORTING, SIFTING, SLICING AND SLASHING THROUGH E-MAIL CAN BE MADE EASIER
  
  
• ISS UNVEILS AUTOMATED NETWORK DEFENSE PACKAGE
  
  
• ESAFE TECHNOLOGIES DELIVERS INDUSTRY'S FIRST INTEGRATED FIREWALL PROTECTION BLOCKING AGAINST VIRUSES
  
  
• Memos Said to Detail Reuters Effort to Get Data
  
  
• ISS Security Alert Summary- January 28, 1998
  
  
• VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS CUTTING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION COSTS BY 80 PERCENT
  
  
• IS POOR PERFORMANCE THE PRICE OF INTERNET SECURITY?
  
  
• ISS Security Alert Summary January 7, 1998
  
  
• Companies Installed More Software Piracy
  
  
• USA: LEADERS TACKLE NET CRIME
  
  
• Internet & Year 2000 Top List of Critical...
  
  
• U.S. Joins International Fight Against Computer Crime
  
  
• Internet not secure enough for insurers -report
  
  
• Bug threatens Net software
  
  
• ISS Security Alert Summary
  
  
• JCP, a company specializing in Internet electronic commerce software and the developer of Java-based Internet encryption technology, has warned that e-commerce will be hit by a massive credit card fraud explosion, unless it gets it act together.
  
  
• Millennium Bug to cost big business almost $10bln
  
  
• NETWORK GENERAL BORN, ACQUIRES PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY.
  
  
• If your company's sales projection graphics look like a hockey stick, then you are probably planning to do business over the Internet. High technology experts reckon that business transacted over the Internet, although barely measurable now, will be massive by the early years of the next century.
  
  
• 'IT WAS HERE A MINUTE AGO!'- ARCHIVING ON THE NET
  
  
• ISS Security Alert Summary
  
  
• From ENN: AMERICAN MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES INCREASE THEIR SECURITY AWARENESS...
  
  
• Intellectual Property Bill- The Association for Computing's U.S. Public Policy Committee believes that the "No Electronic Theft Act" (H.R. 2265), which is now before you, does not adequately reflect the nature of the new digital environment and will have a negative impact on the rich scientific communications that have developed on the Internet in many fields, including computer science.
  
  
• Internet Domain Name Experts Team with the .NU Domain
  
  
• MS Internet Explorer 4.0?- viewing remote HTML content can execute arbitrary native code
  
  
• A new bug that crashes Intel (INTC) Pentium processors has been found and is now being discussed openly on the Internet.
  
  
• A software developers' security organization called L0pht Heavy Industries says it has discovered a new flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 4.0 Web browser and its companion programs that can be exploited to run malicious code on another user's machine.
  
  
• I've written before about things that prevent effective use of the Internet. This month, allow me to offer suggestions for reducing unsolicited bulk e-mail, or spam- a massive resource waste.
  
  
• Are Firewalls Good Enough? Or, have hackers found ways around them? An interesting short discussion.
  
  
• Ethical Issues in Cyberspace & the Workplace Part I and II by Dr. Mich Kabay, NCSA
  ethics-1.ppt 258k Power Point File
  ethics-2.ppt 81k Power Point File
  
  
• Hot Topics in Information Technology - Info-Sec Part I and II by Dr. Mich Kabay, NCSA
  Security-1.ppt 1.5meg Power Point File
  Security-2.ppt 1.3meg Power Point File
  Overview.ppt 53k Power Point File
  Outline-9704.doc 15k Word File
  
  
• HOW TO PRACTICE SAFE BROWSING
  
  
• Online stores and banks want your business. Here's how they plan to get it and how you can give it-worry free
  
  
• Find out why your Web browser is vulnerable and how you can plug the security holes before hackers discover them
  
  
• IE4.0 Security Loophole. Thanks to J.D. Abolins for the post.
  
  
• The Knowledge Group (TNG) has published a white paper, which urges British businesses to develop a cohesive Internet security policy rather than "panic buying" several products.
  
  
• Shadows in the Mirror: The Looming Problems of Web Caching by Lauren Weinstein, Moderator of the Privacy Forum
  
  
• The Future of the Internet: Perspectives for the Travel and Air Transport Industry
  
  
• THE MILLENNIUM BUG- Please panic early
  
  
• Computer Sciences Corporation, Mr. Guy L. Copeland presented "Information Assurance and the Insurance Motivation"
  iwinspnl.ppt 310K PowerPoint File
  
  
• Java security questions arise
  
  
• Screw the Internet
  
  
• It's Vulnerability, Not Threat--Stupid! Information assurance needs patching more holes, less chasing foes.
  
  
• Microsoft Bans Java Applets from its Web Sites
  
  
• Internet Fraud
  
  
• FTP Compromise -- Denial Of Service
  
  
• Digital's Firewall Failover Services Improve Internet Security
  
  
• Security Survey -- Is It Safe?
  
  
• Internet Provider Files Suit Against Unknown Scammers.
  
  
• Senate Bill Targets Online Copyright Issues.
  
  
• BCS News - Laying Down Internet Law.
  
  
• Thanks to Dr. Mich Kabay, NCSA for the forward. Japan Looks at their computer security in major plants.
  
  
• Former student charged with Internet fraud in Florida.
  
  
• CERT makes CNN!! CERT Can Help Guard Against Computer Hackers.
  
  
• TIS' Gauntlet Firewalls Protect Against Latest Netscape Communicator Bug.
  
  
• Frontier Technologies offers the Industry's First Complete Standards-based Secure Messaging Toolkit For Free.
  
  
• RADGUARD, a leading provider of internetworking security solutions, announced an HTML-driven version of its Remote Authentication Feature.
  
  
• CYBERGUARD CORPORATION: CyberGuard joins Alliance.
  
  
• Microsystems Releases New Version of Cyber Patrol Corporate for Office and Business Use.
  
  
• Automatic and Secure Authentication System Now Available for Web Sites and Internet Service Providers
  
  
• Proposal Aims to Break Net Bottleneck.
  
  
• Net Security Fails Fire Drill
  
  
• What a Tangled Web We Weave - Analysis.
  
  
• Network Solutions and Cert/CC(r) Issue Security Advisory for Internet Community.
  
  
• IETF Moves To Secure Domain Name System
  
  
• New Scheme Gives Companies Confidence When Doing Business Over Computer Networks
  
  
• Bogus Messages Serve As Reminder To Internet Users
  
  
• Three articles by James W. Meritt, Senior Security Analyst employed at Wang Government Services. He has been involved in the Information Systems and networking arena for over a decade and may be reached at JWMeritt@aol.com
  
  
• Net Crime May Spark a Movement
  
  
• CERT* Summary CS-97.04 - SPECIAL EDITION August 4, 1997 This special edition of the CERT Summary highlights large-scale attacks involving a vulnerability in certain implementations of IMAP.
  
  
• Score: Hacking 6, Netscape 0
  
  
• Internet Bug Could Cause Chaos.
  
  
• First Amendment Rights Not an Issue with Cyber Sentinel(TM); New Software Tool Puts Information Control Back in the Hands of Parents
  
  
• An E-mail Spy Is Coming.
  
  
• InterNic Taken Over. This is not funny! You need to read this!
  Surf over to http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,12382,00.html?nd Thanks to Ian Murphy for the forward.
  
  
• NASA And FTC Protest Look-Alike Domain Name
  
  
• Drug Traffickers Turn to Internet to Boost Sales
  
  
• Plan for New Police Unit to Monitor Net
  
  
• JavaScript bug could be worse And these browsers seem to be like swiss cheese!
  
  
• Justice Dept. Looks At Network Solutions Antitrust
  
  
• White House report says Hands off of Electronic Commerce: Let the Industry Regulate Itself. Good move.
  
  
• Security First Technologies Takes Cyberbanking to Malaysia
  
  
• `Hide Your Cookies'
  
  
• Internet Moves Toward Privatization IP Numbers Handled by Non-Profit.
  
  
• SET is approved for use in $$$ transaction, but consumers really care about privacy.
  
  
• AltaVista Offers Corporate Net Security. Read about it here.
  
  
• Pro-spam hacker Speaks Up ...So to speak
  
  
• Call for Special Courts to Deal with Cyberspace Crime As I recall, we proposed this same thing over four years ago. Yes! The system might just catch up!
  
  
• There is Protection from Netscape Browser Security Flaw Network Security Expert Available to Discuss
  
  
• EDI over the Web offers Companies Cheaper E-Commerce and Smarter Messaging via Browsers.
  
  
• Important fix for your Netscape Navigator! Get the patch Now!
  
  
• Netscape Promises Bug Fix By Wednesday See above Article for location of fix.
  
  
• InfoWorld Reports Two Leading Network Security Solutions Leave Companies Vulnerable to Attack
  
  
• Look who's not talking! First Hacker, now Netscape mum on Communicator This is getting bigger than "who shot J.R." Netscape has identified the Communicator bug found by a Danish programmer, but it's not talking until it has a fix. The industry is buzzing, however, about CNN's role in what might be the first known example of "hackmail."
  Forwarded by Ian A. Murphy ( thanks!)
  
  
• Security happennings from the DC area "DC Update"
  
  
• Pretty Good Privacy Releases First in Next Generation of Easy-To-Use Encryption Products
  
  
• Internet Innovator, JOT-IT Software Corp. Partners with Digital Equipment Corp.
  
  
• Killer Applications By Dan Schiller
  
  
• An historical look at the The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 Forwarded to us by Ian A. Murphy <ravensceo@ravenswoodinc.com>
  
  
• If you use Internet Explorer, you better read this.
  
  
• "Legal Peril On the Web" --- Read about what insurance companies and security professionals are saying about web site certification.
  Link: http://www.lantimes.com/lantimes/97/97may/705b001a.html
  
  
• Universities Collaborate on Computer Network
  
  
• An Analysis of Security Incidents on the Internet 1989-1995 by Dr. John D. Howard" Read Dr. Howard's dissertaion where the research was taken from the records at CERT.
  
  
• Russian Officials Point to Internet Threat to National Security.
  
  
• Download in Word 6.0 format. "Information Warfare and The Information Systems Security Professional", by Jerry Kovacich. Dr. Kovacich recently presented at InfoWarCon Brussels. ... "The "Cold War" has ended, but it has been replaced by new "wars". These wars involve the use of technology as a tool to assist in conducting information warfare. It encompasses electronic warfare, techno-terrorist activities and even economic espionage. The term information warfare is being talked about as the 21st Century method of waging war. The United States, among other countries, is in the process of developing "cyberspace weapons". According to the June 22, 1995 issue of a United States magazine, "Washington Technology", "...The cyberspace war plans - dubbed information warfare by the Pentagon - are intended to manipulate the flow of information to enemy leaders, weapons and citizens...".
  
  
• Computers - Hackproof MAC. By Garry Barker.
  
  
• From Radio Free Europe, "World: A New Tool for Spies - The Internet.
  
  
• Network General Corporation announces technology partnership with WheelGroup Corporation
  
  
• Companies Rally to Global Pact on Internet Names
  
  
• Protect and Serve (PC Security Devices)(Small Office/Home Office)
  
  
• A Firewall built to protect critical workstations
  
  
• Japanese police hunt Cyber-Blackmailers
  
  
• Some thoughts from RISKS on Spam blockers.
  
  
• Do Web-Page Thefts Rile Your Dander? Here's One Answer
  
  
• IISP Panel Addresses Cyberspace Payments.
  
  
• IBM Works With Insurers On Internet Risks
  
  
• How about insuring your web site and data and e-commerce? A look at where it is going by the insurers and the insured.
  
  
• How to Police Cyberspace
  
  
• Backgrounder: Internet Security and Privacy Threats Inspire Comprehensive Countermeasures in New CyberMedia Cyberwall Software
  
  
• Intelligence Network Online Announces BlocAide(TM) -- The Internet's First Spam Blocker!
  
  
• Policing internet virtually impossible - Experts
  
  
• Internet Security Liability Insurance and Certification Combine to Reduce Web Site Risks and Liability
  
  
• Windows NT operating system is secure as other systems, says leading security expert; Human errors cause problems
  
  
• NCSA Enhances Web Site Certification Program
  
  
• Bug May Leave Outlook 97 Email Users Red-Faced
  
  
• Free Firewall Product Analysis on the Web
  
  
• Internet security code said vulnerable to hackers
  
  
• Risky Combination: IE 3.0, Norton Utilities 2.0, Windows 95
  
  
• Today it's .COM, .ORG, .MIL, .EDU ...but there's a whole host of new Top Level Domains coming. Isn't self regulation great? The Internet Society Announces Internet Naming
  
  
• Some fixes on the NT security problem.
  
  
• "The debate among the Java, Active X, etc. philosophies can get very intense. I am supplying this as a FYI of this debate. There are Active X proponents who have their own case. A lot boils down to where does one draw the security threshold in relationship to the potential functionality, a matter of practical philosophy." Thanks to J.D. Abolins for this information.
  
  
• MCAFEE announces Desktop Security Suite
  
  
• OpenROUTE Networks GTSecure Firewall Routers Certified By National Computer Security Association
  
  
• Intrusion Detection announces release of first Real-time Network Security Monitor for Windows NT
  
  
• US Internet Eavesdropping Nixed
  
  
• CyberGuard Firewall Awarded European Commercial Security Certification
  
  
• How to report a security event to CERT Everyone should have a copy of this.
  
  
• Web possibilities make security people insecure. By Jeffrey Kutler and Wendy S. Mead
  
  
• More about employees and email bombing. An epidemic . . .
  
  
• Who's reading your electronic mail? An interesting take on how ISP's can listen and eavesdrop all with no oversight or training. Take a look.
  
  
• Usenet Attack by Crackers Reported By Gordon T. Thompson
  
  
• "For the Truly Paranoid: ISP's to take over the country. Maybe this belongs in the humor section...A little conspiracy theory is good for the soul. Enjoy."
  
  
• Be sure - Scan your Firewall. By Keith Schultz
  
  
• This is fabulous article on firewall basics and includes a lot of hard to get opinions on various products, how they perform and their PLUSSES and minuses. Taming the Flames By Keith Schultz
  
  
• Under attack - What hackers know will harm you. Here's a manager's guide to 'net hacking 101 By Kelly Jackson Higgins
  
  
• Outside security breaches are rising, mainly because of the Net, but companies are starting to respond.
  
  
• New firewall survey findings; SURVEY.
  
  
• Software today is 'simply not good enough'.
  
  
• Protect Your PC From Hackers
  
  
• Cybersource stops over $1 million dollars in online fraud.
  
  
• Sick of getting spammed on the Internet? Sick of junk email? Just plain sick? :-) Check this out: anti-spam-ware.
  The anti-spam software is available for download from the following URL... http://www.compulink.co.uk/~net-services/spam/
  
  
• From ENN- FBI Director testifies before House Appropriations Committee
  
  
• Is the firewall enough protection for the corporation? By Kenny MacIver
  
  
• Free Electronic Mailboxes Now Available Through Netscape's In-Box Direct Program
  
  
• Eliashim announces the first free solution for the Microsoft Internet Explorer security hole.
  
  
• Canada: Managing technology - browser - why electronic cash doesn't register
  
  
• Gradient Unveils Kerberos Anti-Web Spoofing Technology
  
  
• Windows can be hacked through IE By Nick Wingfield March 3, 1997, 5:15 p.m. PT
  
  
• Web hackers may threaten bank accounts-magazine
  
  
• UK: Pass the cookies, please - internet talk.
  
  
• British Bank Guarantees No Hacking. by Christopher Sims.
  
  
• Copy-cats threaten internet security. by Liam White
  
  
• Computers - be well armed if you're well wired.
  
  
• Anti-spamming Efforts See spam below.
  
  
• A Notorious Spam: The Feds are investigating this one.
  
  
• CPAS name top ten technologies for 1997 - Cyberspace security tops list
  
  
• Volume Two of a Continuing Handbook on the Commercial Internet's Business, Technology and Structural Issues. Anthology of Recent Articles from The COOK Report and Interviews from the 37th IETF December 9 -13, 1996. COOK Report Handbook (35K in TXT format)
  
  
• Follow up to Dan Farmer survery and SATAN.
  
  
• FATHER OF THE INTERNET Interview of Vint Cerf by Dan Tebbutt 85K text file.
  
  
• Results of Dan Farmer's unauthorized and invaluable attack survey of the www. Includes results from 660 banks!
  
  
• Expert Warns of Lax Security on Web
  
  
• A fascinating history of the Internet, the economy of increasing returns (Net Commerce) and How Business Almost Derailed the Net
  
  
• Researcher warns of more Internet security flaws
  
  
• Intel Links- submitted by a student who did a great job. He included Infowar.com!!
  
  
• Read about the results of Information Weeks' Information Security Survey: Internet vulnerability, malicious internal attacks by employees and lack of confidence are key findings.
  
  
• The Internet is congested, fails to often and many people have suggested that a replacement is necessary. The Internet II Project has begun.
  
  
• NCSA announces Web Site Certification Program