Security

Links to information so you can practice safe computing.

CIAC Security Website

US Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC). Includes information bulletins, advisory notices, security tools, and other security resources.

CERT Advisories

Has all the CERT Advisories, but they are text only on an FTP server. README about the ftp archive.

Good Times Virus Hoax FAQ

"For those who already know it's a hoax, it's a nuisance to read the repeated warnings. For people who don't know any better, it causes needless concern and lost productivity."

An Introduction to Internet Firewalls

NIST Special Publication 800-10, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology

PGP - Pretty Good Privacy

"PGP is an electronic privacy program created by Phil Zimmermann. It is freely available for non-commercial use for DOS, MacIntosh, UNIX, Amiga, VMS, Atari, and OS/2 systems. A commercial version is also available from ViaCrypt. PGP implements public key encryption using the RSA algorithm and the IDEA algorithm."

Internet Spoofing

References and background materials on the Internet spoofing attacks, compiled by Edward Vielmetti with the assistance of Stephen Lodin.

<ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security>

FTP Directory

SATAN - Security Administrator's Tool for Analyzing Networks

"A tool to help systems administrators. It recognizes several common networking-related security problems, and reports the problems without actually exploiting them."

Yahoo: Security and Encryption

CIAC Internet Hoaxes

The Internet is constantly being flooded with information about computer viruses and Trojans. However, interspersed among real virus notices are computer virus hoaxes. While these hoaxes do not infect systems, they are still time consuming and costly to handle.