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Security & Privacy--20001208
Microsoft, VeriSign and WebMethods team up to develop a technology designed to make it easier to use digital signatures and other online security tools with e-commerce applications. Read more at http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem9243.htm Source: Quick Links Lock Hackers out of Your Small Biz All computers are at risk of intrusion when connected to the Internet. Small businesses are particularly vulnerable. The inconvenience and cost of being hacked can easily cripple a young company. Learning how hacks occur and figuring out ways to offset them..." Read More at: http://www.msnbc.com/news/490852.asp Source: Cyber Crime
Report Indian Net firms give security the go-by Many Indian companies have not realised the importance of security in public network. According to a survey 60 per cent of companies of a sample of 72 companies have witnessed a security breach. Read more at: http://www.economictimes.com/today/06tech18.htm Source: ET News Brief Employees are the biggest threat to network security And they don't even know it... It is like locking all your doors but leaving the windows open... Read more at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/14910.html Source: CyberCrime
Report F-Secure Publishes Guidelines On Safe Computing guidelines which it said will allow PC users to avoid computer worm infestations..." Read more at http://www.currents.net/news/00/11/25/news7.html Teleworking Causes Serious Security Threat In the wake of the hack into Microsoft's network, many security administrators haveturned their attention to what some believe is the greatest security challenge facing corporations: teleworkers..." Read More at: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/46/ns-19163.html Source: ZDnet.com
and CyberCrime Report Hackers now target computers of average home users Most companies on the Internet do a decent job of protecting themselves but most home users do not..." More on this story at: http://www.msnbc.com/news/496359.asp Source: CyberCrime Report E-Mail: newsdesk@newsfactor.com Good and bad in personal firewalls A short article about the good and bad in personal firewalls can be accessed at http://members.iol.co.il/uzip/eng/pefirewall.html Author: Uzi Knowledge is Power for Internet Privacy and Security Learn about Internet privacy, security issues, basic precautions you should take to use the Internet safely at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/nov00/11-27safeinternet.asp Source: http://www.microsoft.com Toshiba outfits laptops with fingerprint reader eliminating the need for passwords. Toshiba's PC Card Fingerprint Reader will be made of Identix's DFR-300 optical fingerprint reader and BioLogon security software.<p> Read more at http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/11/20/001120hnfingerprint.xml?p=br&s=2 Source: InfoWorld and Searchsecurity.com
Useful Privacy Tools
IDcide Privacy Companion (1.3MB Freeware) a good program to protect you from the prying eyes of the Internet at <p> International PGP (7.5MB Freeware)<p> is one of the best cross platform encryption application<p> on the market today,
download it at: Locker4Net (2MB Freeware) a sophisticated coding system that gives you a secure guard at Privacy management tools. 78662 bytes Freeware KPKfile v4.0 is a suite of encryption tools for Windows platforms (Windows 9x, Millennium, NT and 2000). Distinct Private Folders can be created by different passwords enable many users to have their own Private Folder on the same computer. http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/security/kpkfile4.zip Special requirements: VB6 runtimes (available from Simtel.Net as simvb6-6.zip). Author: John Rossi - John52612000@yahoo.com/ Black Screen v1.16 (155.2 KB) Freeware<p> is a good desktop security application for people who need fast and powerful security right at their fingertips. It locks up your desktop from unwanted users. http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/security/black/default.shtml Helps lock down both Outlook, Outlook Express, IE and WinZip from executing malicious script base viruses.<p> http://freeappsweb.ingava.com/default.asp?cat=6&subcat=22&app=628 Internet Explorer Security size:534 the useful freeware utility that allows you to protect Internet Explorer options and disable some functions that might be dangerous when your kids (or unwanted person) use them .. . http://freewarehome.com/internet/misc.html#1009 The Security / Privacy News, Resources and Tools included in this section may contain links to sites on the Internet which are owned and operated by third parties http://www.guide2net.net is not responsible for the availability of, or the content located on or through, any such third-party site.
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