Tag Archive for 'Firewall'

Tripwire Watches for Hackers

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 [...]

Network Attacks Blocked

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 [...]