 | Search engines have become the villains in malware attacks, 11/29/07: Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft MSN have unwittingly become the delivery engine for malware attacks. According to blog posts by Search Engine Journal and SunBelt Software, attackers are elevating the search result positioning of malware laced sites, says Microsoft Subnet blogger Mitchell Ashley. Comcast continues to block peer-to-peer, EFF reports, 11/30/07: Comcast continues to slow down customers' connections to some peer-to-peer applications, using hacker-like techniques against its own subscribers, according to a report released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Securing Cisco Devices, 11/19/2007: So far, we’ve discussed securing your devices by implementing passwords on your console, your aux, and your VTY. We’ve discussed using SSH rather than telnet for security purposes, and we’ve talked about using “enable secret passwords” on your accounts. In my last article, we discussed disabling protocols like CDP for security purposes since it gives away too much information about your network. There are still many other things covered in Global Knowledge courses that you can do to secure your network. |
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