In case you’ve never heard of it. Intrusion Detection is the process of identifying anomalous traffic on a network. It’s what a couple of us who maintain this website do for our jobs.

In basic terms, the idea is to monitor traffic both incoming to and outgoing from a given network to try and [...]

Just wanted to add to what Chris had mentioned about wireless security in his previous post.
       Wi-Fi security is not my cup of tea; however I had my wireless card lying around and decided to see what’s out there in the neighborhood. It was unbelievable to see how many people are oblivious to wireless security and [...]

Have any of you ever been wardriving?
I recently did a bit of it while I was on leave up in Western NY at the end of April. Now, I come from basically the middle nowhere in the southern tier of Erie county, not too far from Amish country, so you can imagine how surprised I [...]

I was cleaning up my office, and I came across a piece of paper that had 8 Commandments of Network Security on it.  I’m not sure where it came from, but I like the list so here it is:
Thou shalt use strong passwords and change the default passwords that come with any program.
Thou shalt use [...]

I’ve been asked by a few friends lately about securing their networks and whether it really matters if they use WEP or WPA.
I will go over briefly what each is, and what the major differences are.
WEP:
Wired Equivalent Privacy. Originally intended to give you the same or similar level of security as on a wired network, [...]