IS it beneficial to have wired or wireless networking for my office?
Apart from honeypots, what are the different methods to find unknown threats which are prevalent? and how to find methods to mitigate them. PS: all the vulnerabilities are known to all the n/w administrators and then can take measures to mitigate attacks but this doesnt happen..Hackers are at least 10 steps ahead..So how to find [...]
What is the easiest way to protect your MAC address against spoofing? In 2004 I was the victim of a hacker that somehow spoofed my Cable Modem Mac address and used it to cover his identity while serving copyright material thru the internet. I was unsuspecting until my ISP one day suspended my service. I [...]
I have COMCAST High Speed Internet. The first device connected to it is a Vonage Motorola Voice Hub, and then a Linksys Wireless DSL/Cable Hub. Is there a way for me to access my wireless TIVO devices across the Internet since their new addresses on the Linksys are default 192.168.1.*?
I recently purchased a computer from a “going out of business” sale for my fathers business and when I try to logon to Windows I get the logon screen with domain. I have a valid username and password but obviously i am not connected to a domain. I need to bypass this if possible. The [...]
I am in charge of setting up Blackberry’s on my job. One of the questions that users have is “how can I sync my Lotus Notes Groups with my Blackberry”. The way that my company has it set up is that any contacts that a user has in Notes must be syncronized with our Inotes [...]
My office runs a normal LAN. The company has recently purchased the building next door, and we want to extend the LAN into this building using a wireless link. To achieve this, we have purchased 2 Netgear WPN802 wireless access points. The Netgear website has a step by step guide to configuring the WPN802 in [...]
We have a wireless network with a wireless router serving indoors and an access point (with power booster & hi-gain antenna) serving exterior locations. The AP periodically drops, losing apparent signal and IP connectivity (ping & http) even from a wired connection to the router. Router and AP both have static IPs, WPA-PSK/AES encryption and [...]
Hi, I’m studying for an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway University of London, I have a B.Engg. degree in computers and a PG Diploma in Networking and Communication as well as the CCSA and CCNA. I’m also studying for the CISSP. Now, with all these qualifications, could you please tell me which would [...]
I have couple of remote users with VPN clients. From time to time when they are not connected to main site they report that it takes long time to open documents on local machines. Their laptops are attached to domain; I enable logon cache in for 50 logons, via policy. Am I missing anything else? [...]
Does any one know of any goof Intrussion detection system boxes which are not crazy expensive and support up to 1GB lines.
My ISP blocks any attempt to establish a VPN connection and I was wondering if there is a workaround for this or if there are alternatives? I am using Windows XP. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
We are a company where we have expirience on network remote administration and now we have open a new area, The area of security. Now I need to start to make new procedures like when a new customer come to us and ask if we can handle the security for his network… I need to [...]
Using WPA TKIP with windows domain controller as certificate server. The IAS server is also a domain controller. Native 2003 domain configured to give out certificates automatically. This worked in my lab environment using a single 2003 box built to do all server functions. Cisco debug shows “server response: FAIL” Later, “failed: EAP reason 1″ [...]
how to transmit the data from a server to an outdoor led display through bluetooth technology? what procedure should be followed?
Using win2003 domain controller with IAS to authenticate wireless users. Certificate server configured to hand out workstation and user certificates automatically. AP is cisco 1200. Got nowhere until I manually added a certificate under current user/personal/certificates. Then got this error from IAS: Event Source: IAS Event Category: None Event ID: 2 Date: 5/1/2007 Time: 11:28:41 [...]
Hi, Can any body tell me how to enumerate the installed software on the machines with in the network.
I am in the process of setting up a DMZ in order to host a Web Server and an Exchange Server. I have been doing a great deal of research and have a few questions. This is my setup: Internet====>ASA====>Inside Network (Cisco Switches) I want to use an additional switch and attach it to the [...]
I?m trying to connect the registration terminals used outside various halls at any given exhibition centre to a completely independent network that my company will set up at whatever site we attend. Most of our work is in the Middle East, so taking the Dubai World Trade Centre as a prime example, it is about [...]
Hello everyone - I’m hoping somebody out there can point me in the right direction. We just replaced our aging Checkpoint firewall with Safe@office 500 (waiting for the powerpack right now though). We use Securemote to vpn in and although that works just fine after recreating the site, we’ve had an odd side effect. Anybody [...]





