Are you a typical user who is working in a small peer-to-peer network with less than 10 hosts? Since, this type of network is devoid of servers, every workstation is configured to act as if it is a client and a server. Every host is forced to share its resources which make it highly […]
Posted on October 7th, 2007 by Ita
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Researchers at The Univerisity of Maryland recently completed a study in which four Linux servers were set out as bait to see the frequency of attacks.They found out that there were 269,262 attempts in a 24-day period (ref: http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=117302). Michel Cukier, a professor of the University of Maryland led the study on the most frequently-used […]
Posted on October 5th, 2007 by Ita
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As wireless networks become more and more common these days, networks are becoming easier to break into. The problems stem from the fact that WLANs are very easy to set up and configure. Another reason is that most of the networks are set up with default factory setting which understandably has no restrictions. However, I […]
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Niraj Shrestha
Filed under: Office Culture, WLAN, Network Security | 1 Comment »
You are back from a long vacation. You turn on your computer and when you try to log on with your administrator account; Windows XP gives you an error message saying that the password is invalid.
Yours is the only user account in the operating system so you cannot log on with any other user […]
Posted on July 20th, 2007 by Niraj Shrestha
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I love working in my Office, UITS, though I don’t have to. I can work from my home using our office VPN, but its always better working in an office environment. You feel the moral obligation to work, not just plug in your iPod and surf the net. Apart from that you have James and […]
Posted on July 12th, 2007 by thirdeye
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