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ID Theft and National Security

If it turns out, as I believe, that enemies of the United States are behind a lot of the major ID thefts in the US, that would mean that a lot of money is going to our enemies. Can we therefore surmise that those who mishandle our identity information, by means of their poor stewardship of our...

View Answer   |  Mar 12 2005  10:35 PM GMT
Security management, Disaster Recovery, Incident response
asked by InfoSafety

  60 pts.

Linux Policy

Hi, We are very new to the Linux environment and we have to create a Linux Security Policy. Can't find any examples searching the WEB. Can you point me in the right direction to find sample policies> We are using SuSE LInux. Thanks for the assistance. Regards. Dave

View Answer   |  Mar 11 2005  7:30 AM GMT
Linux, Policies
asked by sammarcod

  0 pts.

Users cannot change password after upgrading Domain Controllers to 2003.

Hi there, We recently upgraded our DC's from 2000 to 2003, which were themselves upgraded from NT4. Since the upgrade users cannot change their pwds. Keeps coming back with the msg: "Your password must be at least 6 characters, cannot repeat any of your previous 5 passwords and must be at least 21...

View Answer   |  Mar 7 2005  3:11 PM GMT
Tech support, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
asked by Maclanachu

  0 pts.

Front-End Reporting Tools for Secure Web Service Application with MS-SQL server-2

Hi... We are a Cdn Govt agency involved in Satellite Operations with a commercial partner based across the country. We will need to build/buy a small secure web service application for reporting purposes that will require minimal IT experise to build or maintain, and will deliver maximum...

View Answer   |  Mar 2 2005  10:03 AM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Servers, Microsoft Windows
asked by mmosystem

  0 pts.

Front-End Reporting Tools for Secure Web Service Application with MS-SQL server

Hi... We are a Cdn Govt agency involved in Satellite Operations with a commercial partner based across the country. We will need to build/buy a small web service application for reporting purposes that will require minimal IT experise to build or maintain. The back end RDBMS engine is built with...

View Answer   |  Mar 2 2005  9:49 AM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Servers, Microsoft Windows
asked by mmosystem

  0 pts.

Reporting domain/workgroup membership on your LAN using PERL

This is more of an FYI. I just posted a perl script that I use to generate a daily report of all Workstations and Servers located on our LAN. This report is sorted by domain/workgroup membership and includes any visible shares on the machine. If anyone is interested you can read it here: ...

View Answer   |  Mar 1 2005  12:13 AM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Networking, Ethernet
asked by ghigbee

  0 pts.

Secure Email Delivery Applications

I am currently searching for the best application or service to provide end to end security for delivering encrypted emails from one company to another accross the Internet. I need the solutions to provide Smime, PGP, TLS, SSL, etc. My goal is to some how have the app or user decide if the email...

View Answer   |  Mar 1 2005  9:21 AM GMT
E-mail applications, Disaster Recovery, Security
asked by jclarkfl

  0 pts.

iseries Client Access does not allow third parties applications to open the login screen to change password when it's expired.

Hello all: I will apreciate any help about this problem. I am a system administrator (mainly Active Directory) now dealing with this ISeries Client Access Problem in my 400 workstations. There are e few applications in the company, developed in FoxPro and Visual Basic, accesing the AS/400 (now...

View Answer   |  Feb 28 2005  7:41 PM GMT
Disaster Recovery, AS/400, Security Program Management
asked by romanillo

  0 pts.

ChoicePoint CISO says breach not an information security issue

The CISO of ChoicePoint says the theft of private information on 145,000 from its databases isn't an information security issue because conmen used fraud, not hacking tools or techniques, to get the information. Anyone agree with that? Check it out:...

View Answer   |  Feb 24 2005  5:29 PM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Security, Security Program Management
asked by Athletica

  0 pts.

Authorization in MIGO

I would like to grant a user authorization to object S_TCODE MIGO (Goods Receipt specifically for Purchase Order (movement type 101) where they could then enter any related data but restrict their activity to HOLD. A subsequent user would have the authorization to POST the document. I have...

asked by CoCamo

  0 pts.

Developing an antivirus (efficient):for Windows:Using VC++-2

I am working on a Project for making an antivirus.I have 2 other project parteners. But we don't have an guidance on how to develop the antivirus.Plz give me any relevent Information on this subject.(like components of AV,Algorithms(efficient),methods,general dection & removal of virus).(Also tell...

View Answer   |  Feb 24 2005  3:49 AM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Help Desk
asked by 423883

  0 pts.

Developing an antivirus (efficient):for Windows:Using VC++

I am working on a Project for making an antivirus.I have 2 other project parteners. But we don't have an guidance on how to develop the antivirus.Plz give me any relevent Information on this subject.(like components of AV,Algorithms(efficient),methods,general detection & removal of virus).(Also...

View Answer   |  Feb 24 2005  3:49 AM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Help Desk
asked by 423883

  0 pts.

MS Office Outlook 2003 Address book

I use MS office outlook 2003 but this is not adding the e-mail addresses to the address book/contacts automatically when I reply to someone. This feature is available in Outlook express but I didn't find this feature in MSOO 2003. Is there any simple way I can add e-mail ids to contacts /address...

View Answer   |  Feb 18 2005  5:32 AM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Help Desk
asked by BinooDas1234

  10 pts.

orcing a limit for the internet temp folder in windows 2000

Hello all, Setup is as follows: Server is NT4, clients are windows 2000 I CANNOT spend any money. All my users log on do all work as normall and then go on the internet. Now all users default size for the internet's temp folders is 596MB!! and the Pc's will be used by 700+ Kids!! As you can...

View Answer   |  Feb 3 2005  9:49 AM GMT
Tech support, Hardware, Windows
asked by Carl0s81

  0 pts.

RUNAS error: Unable to acquire user password

I am trying to write a VBScript that will use local admin rights to run another script. However, for some reason I can't get the RUNAS command to take the password. I am including my script below: set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run ("%comspec% /k RUNAS...

View Answer   |  Jan 24 2005  3:08 AM GMT
Hardware, Security, Windows XP
asked by OozleFinch

  0 pts.

Need a way to audit ANY change access to selected database files.

A client has had a request from auditors that they should be able to audit every change to three critical database files when I am remotely signed on to their ISeries. They would want to turn on and off the auditing so that it is NOT on all day while being hit by 100's of customers. I vaguely...

View Answer   |  Jan 19 2005  11:53 AM GMT
Security management, Policies, Auditing
asked by harkabus1

  0 pts.

Data Visibility in RBAC and Rule-based systems issues

Actually, I have two questions: 1) are there known solutions of how to control access to data ( database records ) in RBAC system where business policy states, e.g., that data belonds to the users in certain geographical are may be viewed by users located in the same area? This is quite actual...

View Answer   |  Jan 14 2005  2:28 PM GMT
Security management, Disaster Recovery, Security
asked by m3poulin

  0 pts.

Security COncern, Files deleted from Server

Good morning to all, and hope everyone is dooing well. I have a security issue, and need help solving this. Someone in my company within Engineering staff deleted an entire group of folders. Unfortunately it was on a project that ended, and it was discovered this morning. I have luckily a back...

View Answer   |  Jan 14 2005  10:21 AM GMT
Security management, Disaster Recovery, Hardware
asked by ESuazo

  0 pts.

Access to security log in Windows 2000

In my company we want to give full access to the security log of Windows 2000 only to the security manager, but we want to give only read access to the support people, Is there how to do it ?

View Answer   |  Jan 11 2005  3:29 PM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Disaster Recovery
asked by feaxavier

  0 pts.

DOS attack, DNS question

My question has two parts, first: today at the place where i work we lost the internet, and after checking the firewall (sonicwall, this is a non profit organization so they cant afford the best stuff) i discovered it was more than likely a DOS attack. nobody could access the internet, and i could...

View Answer   |  Jan 10 2005  6:07 PM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Disaster Recovery
asked by KJC4855

  0 pts.

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