Security products over the past decade have considerably hardened networks and systems exposed to public or other high- or elevated-risk environments. Firewalls have effectively limited connectivity ...

Randomness is hard. To be precise, without dedicated hardware, randomness is impossible for a computer. This is actually important to keep in mind when writing software. When there’s not hardware ...

COMMENTARY--Enterprises must act quickly to head off the hacker attacks that will almost certainly result from the revelation that there are many more security holes in the Simple Network Management ...

Attackers are increasingly abusing devices configured to publicly respond to SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) requests over the Internet to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks. This ...

Microsoft Corp. on Feb. 15 released a patch for two versions of its Windows operating system to secure a hole discovered in a critical networking technology that could allow an attacker to stage ...

Jeff Welton and Wayne Pecena are shown in a past discussion about IT security. Tuesdays are for transmission at Nautel. Well, every day is probably for transmission at Nautel; but Tuesdays are when ...

Researchers at Oulu University in Finland pretended to be hackers and issued commands to SNMP agents and management systems that a system doesn't usually expect. What they found was alarming. None of ...