January 7th, 2005 by Dana Roode
There are a great many ways malicious users of the Internet are devising to sneak software onto a computer. It can be simply annoying but benign (adware), invasive of privacy (tracking visited web sites), and even destructive.
Security patches and firewalls are excellent defensive measures, but if something gets past those defenses, it’s important to find [...]
November 22nd, 2002 by Dana Roode
NACS Network Planning and Security team has implemented scripts in the campus Intrusion Detection System (IDS) which provide the first dynamic measures to utilize the PIX firewall’s blocking capability. These scripts automate the process of denying access to external hosts attempting to compromise systems on campus. This allows attacks to be stopped when they are [...]