Stuck with WEP - will increasing key lengths help harden WLAN?
I have potential security issues on my wireless LAN because my equipment is older and I can?t use WPA. I'm worried that my data is vulnerable. If I increase my WEP key length from 40 to 128 or greater, will this help?
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| May 4 2005 7:15 AM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Intrusion management, Identity & Access Management
I have potential security issues on my wireless LAN because my equipment is older and I can?t use WPA. I'm worried that my data is vulnerable. If I increase my WEP key length from 40 to 128 or greater, will this help?
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| May 4 2005 7:15 AM GMTDisaster Recovery, Intrusion management, Identity & Access Management
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A graduate student in need of help - I would like to know your professional opinion on information security.
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Is Windows security an afterthought?
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Found Trojan.ByteVerify on my computer
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Internet Explorer vs. Firefox
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Safe user sandbox?
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I've been hacked -- I think....
I'm an IT administrator with a little over 500 end users, running Windows 2000 and XP. One of our users is experiencing a problem with her Internet connection suddenly dropping for no apparent reason. When she restarts her computer, everything works fine for awhile, but then the connection drops...
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How did I get a virus on my computer?
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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...
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Front-End Reporting Tools for Secure Web Service Application with MS-SQL server
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Reporting domain/workgroup membership on your LAN using PERL
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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: ...
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...
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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...
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...
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:...
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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...
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| Feb 24 2005 1:52 PM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Identity & Access Management, Digital certificates
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...
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| Feb 24 2005 1:52 PM GMTDisaster Recovery, Identity & Access Management, Digital certificates
Developing an antivirus (efficient):for Windows:Using VC++-2
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MS Office Outlook 2003 Address book
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Data Visibility in RBAC and Rule-based systems issues
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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...
