Monday, June 30th, 2008
"By default, Radmin uses a known port, TCP port 4899 for remote access. In addition, if you are using password authentication only, a remote user only has to find an open TCP port 4899 and guess one word: your password.Suggestions:It is very easy to implement any or all of the ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Five former Cisco engineers have co-founded a start-up called Rohati Systems whose products take dead aim at traditional perimeter firewalls.
A traditional firewall and its access control lists "is not capable of doing its job today from an access-control perspective," says CEO and President Shane Buckley. "Nowadays, your ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Wireless security vendors used last week's conference here to showcase both the problems and solutions in controlling access to wireless voice and data.
AirTight Networks launched SpectraGuard Online, touted as wireless security's first manifestation of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model that more vendors -- and a few cyber criminals -- are using.
In ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Microsoft is working on a new tunneling protocol for Vista and Longhorn that will provide secure network access from anywhere on the Net.
The Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) creates a VPN tunnel that travels over Secure-HTTP, eliminating issues associated VPN connections based on the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) or Layer ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I recently spent a few weeks testing Windows Server 2003 by using the Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 release candidate (RC). One of my goals was to evaluate the efficacy of the RRAS firewall. The basic firewall is a new component in Windows 2003 that uses an enhanced version ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
VPN just got easier. Windows 2000 and XP clients can do IPSec out of the box, but when you attempt to VPN to an external resource from behind a NAT router/firewall, challenges ensue. To date, Microsoft has not gotten along well with NAT, but in a brand new update made ...
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