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Articles & Tutorials for March, 2006

Best Practices for Configuring Group Policy Objects: Date - Mar 30, 2006; Author - Brien Posey; Section - Articles / Windows 2003 Security; In this article, I will share with you some best practices that you can use to keep your group policy objects well organized.
Rainbow Tables & RainbowCrack Introduction: Date - Mar 29, 2006; Author - Chris Gates; Section - Network Security Library / Cryptography; Rainbow tables reduce the difficulty in brute force cracking a single password by creating a large pre-generated data set of hashes from nearly every possible password. Rainbow Tables are popular with a particularly weak password algorithm known as Microsoft LM hash. LM stands for LAN Manager, this password algorithm was used in earlier days of Windows and still lives on only for compatibility reasons.
Tools of the Trade (Part 2): Date - Mar 22, 2006; Author - Don Parker; Section - Articles / Misc Network Security; In part one of the article series on “Tools of the Trade” we covered a packet sniffer and network scanner. Both installation and sample usage were shown. In part two we will go on to cover other key tools that are of importance to learn. Read on to find out more!
Importance of File Level Backup: Date - Mar 22, 2006; Author - Bilal Ahmed and Adnan Khan; Section - Network Security Library / Disaster Recovery; File level backup is another way of taking backups for the files and folders residing on a storage volume, keying on backups for mission critical data which results in having more than one layer of data protection at a lower price tag.
Deploying Auditing Settings and Reporting What is Configured: Date - Mar 15, 2006; Author - Derek Melber; Section - Articles / Authentication, Access Control & Encryption; Within Windows you might want to track who is performing specific tasks. This might be to meet a regulatory compliance, or to just track when users perform tasks on desktops and servers. The benefits of deploying auditing settings to all computers include better control of the environment, audit trails for security reasons, and tracking of events for forensics. The big question boils down to how should these settings be deployed correctly, efficiently, and with assurance that the settings will be persistent? The answer is simple and efficient: Group Policy. Here, we will look at the settings that need to be deployed, the methods to deploy them, and options to verify that the settings are still in place.
Wireless Cracking Tools: Date - Mar 15, 2006; Author - Bradley Morgan; Section - Network Security Library / Wireless Security; By familiarizing yourself with following software, you will not only have a better understanding of the vulnerabilities inherent in 802.11 networks, but you will also get a glimpse at how a hacker might exploit them.
Tools of the Trade (Part 1): Date - Mar 09, 2006; Author - Don Parker; Section - Articles / Misc Network Security; Being in the computer security field means that you are always striving to stay current. You are always trying to learn new tools, and understand new exploits. That said there are also some tools that simply aren’t going to go away any time soon and are really necessary to learn. Over the course of this three part series we will look at some of the best known hacking tools. After all, it pays dividends to know just how your enemy works and more specifically with what.
SPAM - The Issues, Impact and Reducing SPAM (Part 2): Date - Mar 08, 2006; Author - Jeff McDermott; Section - Network Security Library / Anti Spam; This is Part 2 of an article to help improve the understanding of the impact and problems created by Spam. This section focuses primarily on things that can be done to help reduce the impact of Spam for consumers, ISP's, and corporations. There is no 100% with Spam reduction, but things can be done to improve the current status and condition of Internet email reliability.
More on Running Windows Under Non-Admin Accounts: Date - Mar 07, 2006; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Articles / Authentication, Access Control & Encryption; This article is a follow up to my previous article on WindowsNetworking.com titled "Running Windows Under Non-Admin Accounts" and shares some comments from readers concerning issues they've found and solutions they've tried for limiting desktop computer users to non-admin accounts. The article also provides some additional workarounds for performing admin-level tasks while logged on to a computer using ordinary user credentials.
Securing What's at Risk - A Common Sense Approach to Strong Authentication: Date - Mar 01, 2006; Author - Entrust; Section - Network Security Library / Auth. & Access Control; Online consumers demand personalized unique identities that make them confident about online transactions. This whitepaper outlines issues with managing online identities when faced with increasing threats against these online identities.
Setting up your Lab: Date - Mar 01, 2006; Author - Don Parker; Section - Articles / Misc Network Security; Having an interest in computer security means one thing for certain: That you will have to keep your skills up to par and continually explore new ones. How should you go about fulfilling this ambitious plan? Read on to find out how.