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Achieving Compliance with PCI DSS v1.2 with Lumension® Solutions
Jun 2009
PCI DSS applies to those organizations that store, transmit or process cardholder information payments; encompassing service providers, merchant acquirers, third party processors and even data...
Provided by Lumension
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Sprint Helps the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Connect With Students
Dec 2007
With over 4,000 students attending classes across a 747-acre campus, the faculty, staff and administration of University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) wanted to improve communications with the...
Provided by Sprint
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ServaNet Delivers Next-Generation Connectivity in Central Sweden Via Advanced 3Com 7700 Switch and Voice Solution
Jan 2009
Swedish utility company Sundsvall Energi Elnat AB wants to provide the 123,000 residents of Sweden's Medelpad region with more than just electricity. ServaNet's goal is to be the region's leading...
Provided by 3Com
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Single 3Com Infrastructure Pays Off for TM R&D
Jan 2009
As the Research & Development arm of Malaysia's largest telecom operator, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), Research & Development (R&D) develops new-generation network and broadband initiatives that...
Provided by 3Com
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Hawaii Safeguards Schools Statewide Using Intrusion Protection Systems From 3Com's TippingPoint Division
Jan 2009
In 2004, officials at the Hawaii Department Of Education (HIDOE), the oldest public school system west of the Mississippi, confronted what school districts nationwide dread. HIDOE's schools rely...
Provided by 3Com
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Special Services School District Empowers Disabled Students Using a 3Com Enterprise Network Solution
Jan 2009
One of the most progressive special education systems in the United States, Mercer County Special Services School District of Trenton, New Jersey, provides 750-plus seriously disabled students...
Provided by 3Com
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East Grand Rapids Schools Find Security and Economy With the TippingPoint X505 From 3Com
Jan 2009
East Grand Rapids Public Schools is located in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA with 350 employees and 2,800 students. School is posed security risks to the suburban Grand Rapids school system....
Provided by 3Com
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Investment in 3Com Security Technology Yields Top Marks for Ibmec Educational Institute
Jan 2009
Ibmec is dedicated to educational and professional training in business, law, and economics, with five facilities located in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte. Security has...
Provided by 3Com
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Secure Converged 3Com Gigabit and Wireless Network Blocks 2.5 Million Attacks in for State College
Jan 2009
At North Dakota State College of Science (NDSCS) students exchanged high-bandwidth files via the college's legacy Gigabit and wireless infrastructure. To continue to deliver secure, reliable,...
Provided by 3Com
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Award Winning Australian University Chooses 3Com as It Expands Into Dubai Knowledge Village
Jan 2009
In 2000, the University of Wollongong won Australia's most prestigious higher education award, 'University of the Year.' The university is acclaimed for its effective application of digital...
Provided by 3Com
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Media Company Boosts Security and IT Efficiency With Sun Automated Identity Management Solution
Jan 2009
Since it began radio broadcasts in 1951, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) has grown to a network of 28 affiliate television and 34 affiliate radio stations. It needed to integrate disparate...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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HP ProCurve Adaptive Network Provides a Secure, High Performance Infrastructure for International Consulting Firm
Sep 2008
COWI is a leading international consulting group, operating worldwide within the fields of engineering, environmental science and economics. With a head-office in Lyngby, North Copenhagen, another...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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HP ProCurve Networking Boosts Security and Aids Business Growth at Leading Swiss Bank
Oct 2008
Privatbank IHAG Zurich AG (IHAG) - www.pbihag.ch - is an asset management bank serving international clients. They wanted to address the lack of redundancy at the core, introduce additional...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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HP ProCurve Networking Secures Wireless Technology at Major Local College
Dec 2008
CRC has been using HP ProCurve switches to satisfy its networking infrastructure requirements for over ten years. However recent business growth and campus expansion had placed increasing strain...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Cape Cod Academy Boosts Education, Operations and Environmental Stewardship With HP ProCurve Network
Nov 2008
An independent K-12 school located in Osterville, Mass., Cape Cod Academy was struggling with old wiring in its buildings and poor network performance as a result. The school implemented a new...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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HP ProCurve Networking Ensures the Continued Success of the 2008 World Cyber Games
Feb 2009
The World Cyber Games (WCG) is recognised by the Guinness World Records as 'The world's largest video game competition'. The 2008 Grand Finals were hosted in Koelnmesse, an enormous indoor...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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HP ProCurve Networking Sets the Pace at the 2008 London Marathon
Oct 2008
Flora London Marathon needed a reliable and secure Wide Area Network (WAN) to provide journalists with 'Live' information about the competitors as they progressed around the 42 kilometre course....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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HP ProCurve Networking Makes the Grade at Prestigious Roman Medical University
Oct 2008
Founded in 1993 and originally located in Longoni, east of Rome, the Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma initially comprised of a hospital - the Policlinico Universitario - and the Faculty of...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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HP ProCurve Networking Offers Dynamic Network Security to Safeguard Lulea Municipality
Oct 2008
Realising that very few sixth-form students in Lulea were choosing to take the natural sciences programme, Lulea Kommun carried out an analysis of its overall IT infrastructure, which highlighted...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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ProCurve 8200 Switch Forms the Heart of Martifer's Unified Network Infrastructure
Jan 2008
Martifer, a Portuguese construction and energy giant needed a high-performance, high availability networking solution that offered reliability and scalability to satisfy the growing demands of its...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Dutch Healthcare Group Achieves Huge Savings With ProCurve Networking
Jan 2008
New Dutch healthcare group, Amsta, needed efficient, cost-effective networking for 2,500 employees working in 28 locations around Amsterdam. Amsta considered networking solutions from various...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Secure and Future-Proof ProCurve Network Connects 30,000 Servers to the Internet
Feb 2008
STRATO Rechenzentrum AG, one of Germany's biggest web hosting companies wanted to provide a secure, cost-effective network linking 30,000 dedicated servers to the Internet and to replace a...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Panda Corporate Quarantine: Leveraging the Community Knowledge to Reduce the Protection Gap
Oct 2008
As has been frequently pointed out by the security industry, the number of malware samples circulating today has increased alarmingly. So much so, that security companies have had to rethink the...
Provided by Panda Security
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Panda Managed Office Protection: Switching From AV to SaaS
Mar 2008
SMBs know they are exposed to the same risks and subject to the same regulations as large organizations. And with more threats in circulation, their protection requirements are increasingly...
Provided by Panda Security
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Panda Security for Enterprise: The Challenge of Comprehensive Network Protection
Aug 2008
All organizations need to protect their critical and sensitive information from data leaks, targeted attacks and unknown malware, especially in recent years, when there has been more malware than...
Provided by Panda Security
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The Business Case for a Network Security Assessment
Jun 2009
When an organization suffers a security breach, the effects are felt immediately across the organization, not just in the IT department. It doesn't matter if the breach occurred through vulnerable...
Provided by Pacific Coast Information Systems
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ENTERPRISE SECURITY MUST GET SMARTER
Jun 2009
Internet security threats are always changing but what types of attacks are IT professionals most like to see today? More important, what are the most leading recommendations for comprehensive...
Provided by Trend Micro
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CASCADIA LABS URL FILTERING AND WEB RESULTS
Jun 2009
More and more companies now rely on web security products to protect their most important business and network resources from explicit, violent and unwanted content. In many cases, these...
Provided by Trend Micro
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TANDBERG and Security
Jun 2009
This document is intended to be used as a resource for video conferencing security in general, as well as how TANDBERG addresses security specifically. There are many aspects of video conferencing...
Provided by TANDBERG, now part of Cisco
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How to Defend Against New Botnets
Jun 2009
According to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence, botnets were responsible for 90% of spam in 2008. More importantly, these compromised "robot" computer networks do not seem to be going away...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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Webcasts
Better Customer Service with a Decision-Oriented Enterprise
Jun 2009
Watch the webcast to learn about the benefits of a decision-oriented enterprise, the market drivers, and how you can make your business decision driven.
Provided by SAP
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Immune System Based Intrusion Detection System
Jun 2008
The threats and intrusions in IT systems can basically be compared to human diseases with the difference that the human body has an effective way to deal with them, what still need to be designed...
Provided by University of Fribourg
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Ensemble of One-Class Classifiers for Network Intrusion Detection System
May 2008
To achieve high accuracy while lowering false alarm rates are major challenges in designing an intrusion detection system. In addressing this issue, this paper proposes an ensemble of one-class...
Provided by Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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A Strategic Review of Existing Mobile Agent-Based Intrusion Detection Systems
May 2009
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) is defined as a component that analyses system and user operations in computer and network systems in search of activities considered undesirable from security...
Provided by Yahoo
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Data Mining for Intrusion Detection Systems
Dec 2008
The paper discusses the use of data mining techniques applied to intrusion detection systems. The goal of these Data Mining based Intrusion Detection Systems is to discover patterns of program and...
Provided by Montclair State University
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Network Traffic Analysis Optimization for Signature-Based Intrusion Detection Systems
May 2009
This paper proposes a method for signature matching optimization in the field of intrusion detection and prevention. Signature matching algorithm performance is one of the key factors in the...
Provided by Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Flow Based Network Intrusion Detection System Using Hardware-Accelerated NetFlow Probes
Sep 2008
Current network intrusion detection methods based on anomaly detection approaches suffer from comparatively higher error rate and low performance. Proposed flow based network intrusion detection...
Provided by CESNET
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Developing a Hybrid Method for Identifying Monitoring Nodes in Intrusion Detection Systems of MANET
Dec 2008
Nowadays with appearance of a wide range of wireless devices, security of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) became an important problem and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can be deployed as a...
Provided by Sharif University of Technology
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Investigating Intrusion Detection Systems in MANET and Comparing IDSs for Detecting Misbehaving Nodes
Oct 2008
As Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET) have different characteristics from wired networks and even from standard wireless networks, there are new challenges related to security issues that need to be...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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Principled Reasoning and Practical Applications of Alert Fusion in Intrusion Detection Systems
Mar 2008
It is generally believed that by combining several diverse intrusion detectors (i.e., forming an IDS ensemble), one may achieve better performance. However, there has been very little work on...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Enhanced Network Based Query Processing in Road Networks
Apr 2013
The location aware portable devices are widely increased. This rise to the usage of location based services to reveal their own location and needed location. The existing query processing...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Implementation of Cryptographic Algorithm on FPGA
Apr 2013
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), is an approved cryptographic algorithm that is used to protect electronic data. The AES can be programmed in...
Provided by Creative Commons
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A Novel Network Interjection Avoidance for MANET
Apr 2013
In this paper, the authors propose a framework of combining intrusion detection and continuous authentication in MANETs. In this framework, multimodal biometrics is used for continuous...
Provided by Creative Commons
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An Enhanced HASBE for Cloud Computing Environment
Apr 2013
In this era, even sensitive data is stored and shared on the internet using trusted third parties and service providers. Cloud computing is one of the emerging technologies that is being used...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Fast and Secure Data Transmission Using Symmetric Encryption and Lossless Compression
Feb 2013
With the fast progression of data exchange in electronic way, information security is becoming more important in data storage and transmission. While storing and transmitting multimedia data are...
Provided by Creative Commons
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How to unleash the value of your scanned documents
May 2013
Have your scanned documents become a digital landfill? Is an unmanaged assortment of files threatening to become an avalanche in your office? This ebook provides insight into how to get control...
Provided by VirtualWorks
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PMC: Publisher Mobility Support for Mobile Broadcasting in Content Centric Networks
Jul 2012
As the high speed Internet and the smart devices become prevalent, it is expected that the traffic volume of the video conferencing/broadcasting on the mobile devices is increasing explosively....
Provided by Seoul metropolitan government
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A Hybrid Security Model for Mobile Agents in Distributed Systems
Mar 2013
This paper focuses on the development of a hybrid security model for Mobile Agents (MAs) system in a distributed network environment using RSA and DSA. The MA computing vulnerabilities include...
Provided by University of Utah EAE Master Games Studio Program
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A Secure Account Based Mobile Payment Protocol With Public Key Cryptography and Biometric Characteristics
Mar 2013
The way people do the business and transactions are changing drastically with the advent of Information Technology. The customer wants to access information, goods and services any time and in any...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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A New Novel Based Approach to Enhance Security in Arithmetic Coding Using Random Probabilities
Mar 2013
The current network scenario demands secure and fast communication of information. This requires both compression and encryption. Arithmetic coding provides compression as well as data security....
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Launch Time Application Security: The Trusted Approach
Mar 2013
In the day-to-day lives of human beings commodity computers are increasingly used to access banking transactions, sending sensitive e-mails, accessing personal and confidential information from...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Enhancing Security and Response Time for Secure Search in Unstructured Peer to Peer Network
Mar 2013
In a Peer-To-Peer (P2P) network, every machine plays the role of client and server at the same time. Peer to peer networks can be categorized into structured and unstructured peer to peer...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Intrusion Detection System in Web Services
Feb 2013
Today, web applications have become a ubiquitous use of daily tasks, such as banking, travel, and social networking, etc,. Due to their ubiquitous use for daily tasks, web applications have always...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Qualitative Analysis of Security Issues Using Firewalls
Feb 2013
Technologies such as service-oriented architecture and cloud computing has enabled one to perform business services more efficiently and effectively. However, the authors still suffer from...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Proposed Approach for Iris Recognition in Security Based Applications
Feb 2013
Iris recognition is the process of recognition a person by analyzing the apparent pattern of his or her iris. There is a strong scientific demand for proliferation of systems, concepts and...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Signature Scrutiny System in Banking Application
Feb 2013
In today's world security is very important. An integral part of security is authentication as based on a person's identity he is authorized to certain privileges. There are many means for...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Analysis of Hand Over Scheme for VANETS
Feb 2013
Vehicular ad hoc network is one of the fastest exploring technologies. In VANETs lot of work has been done. There are many issues in Vanets which have been addressed by the researchers like...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Hybridization of Routing and Tolerant Security Mechanism for WANET
Jan 2013
Wireless ad hoc network is a network where there is no existence of wireless infrastructure for networking. Thus this kind of network have limited homogenous feature. In sensor networks, building...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Security and Privacy Issues in High Level MANET Protocol
Jan 2013
The high level MANET protocol is an application level routing protocol that was designed to support nomad workers performing mobile collaborative activities. Due to various security attacks and...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Advanced Filter and Minutia Matching for Fingerprint Recognition
Jan 2013
The Biometric used for authentication process of a person is Fingerprint which is more securable and unique for a person's to authenticate. A minutia matching is broadly used for fingerprint...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Audio Steganography Using RPrime RSA and GA Based LSB Algorithm to Enhance Security
Nov 2012
Audio Steganography is a technique used to transmit hidden information by modifying an audio signal in an imperceptible manner. It is a method that ensures secured data transfer between parties...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Cryptographic System in Polynomial Residue Classes for Channels With Noise and Simulating Attacker
Jan 2013
The main goal of any Cryptographic System (CS) is to protect data from uncontrolled changes during their transmitting via public communication channels or other usage. Ability of CS to provide...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Secure One Time Password Generation for Website Security Using Mobile Phone With Biometrics
Jan 2013
Authentication is an essential part of network security. It is a process of confirming the identity to ensure security, with a vital role to provide security in websites. Even though text password...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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A Survey on Malicious Node Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jan 2013
Wireless sensor network becomes popular both in civil and military jobs. WSNs are of particular interest to adversaries due to their frequent deployments in open and unprotected environments....
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey
Jan 2013
Recent advances in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have led to many new applications including habitat monitoring and target tracking. Sensor nodes spend most of their energy during data...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Survey on Security Systems for Mobile Network
Jan 2013
21st century has witnessed an explosive growth in the use of mobile devices as the enabling technology for accessing Internet based services, as well as for personal communication needs in...
Provided by International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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Implementing Log Based Security in Data Warehouse
Mar 2013
This paper proposes an implementation of behaviour analysis based on logs. To ensure data privacy various solutions have been proposed and proven effective in their security purpose. However they...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Privacy and Security: Online Social Networking
Mar 2013
Online Social Networking (OSN) sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ attract hundreds and millions of users. Such social networks have a centralized architecture wherein user's private data and...
Provided by ACCENTS
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New Lightweight Security Protocol for VANET by Using Registration Identity and Group Certificate
Mar 2013
Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) are receiving increasing attentions from academia and deployment efforts from industry, due to the various applications and potential tremendous benefits they...
Provided by ACCENTS
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Self-Verifying Names for Read-Only Named Data
Apr 2012
Information-centric networking designs such as Content-Oriented Networking (CCN) and Data-Oriented Networking Architecture (DONA) remove a limitation of the Internet model: the target of a data...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Illustrating a Publish-Subscribe Internet Architecture
May 2010
The Publish-Subscribe Internet Routing Paradigm (PSIRP) project aims at developing and evaluating an information-centric architecture for the future Internet. The ambition is to provide a new form...
Provided by University of California, Santa Cruz
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Securing Network Content
Oct 2009
The goal of the current Internet is to provide content of interest (Web pages, voice, video, etc.) to the users that need it. Access to that content is achieved using a communication model...
Provided by Palo Alto Networks
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DMND: Collecting Data from Mobiles Using Named Data
Nov 2010
Technology advances in computations and wireless communications have made it economically feasible for manufacturers to collect data from vehicles on the road in order to monitor their operations...
Provided by University of Calgary
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A New Approach to Securing Audio Conference Tools
Nov 2011
Named Data Networking (NDN), a recently proposed Internet architecture based on content-centric networking, is designed to secure data directly, instead of securing the communication channel...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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A Layered Naming Architecture for the Internet
Nov 2007
Currently the Internet has only one level of name resolution, DNS, which converts user-level domain names into IP addresses. In this paper, the authors borrow liberally from the literature to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Server Overload Control: Design and Evaluation
Jul 2008
A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server may be overloaded by emergency-induced call volume, "American Idol" style flash crowd effects or denial of service attacks. The SIP server overload...
Provided by Columbia University
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Silencing Hardware Backdoors
Mar 2011
Hardware components can contain hidden backdoors, which can be enabled with catastrophic effects or for ill-gotten profit. These backdoors can be inserted by a malicious insider on the design team...
Provided by Columbia University
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Side-Channel Vulnerability Factor: A Metric for Measuring Information Leakage
Jun 2012
There have been many attacks that exploit side-effects of program execution to expose secret information and many proposed countermeasures to protect against these attacks. However there is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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TimeWarp: Rethinking Timekeeping and Performance Monitoring Mechanisms to Mitigate Side-Channel Attacks
Aug 2012
Over the past two decades, several microarchitectural side channels have been exploited to create sophisticated security attacks. Solutions to this problem have mainly focused on fixing the source...
Provided by Columbia University
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On the Feasibility of Online Malware Detection with Performance Counters
Apr 2013
The proliferation of computers in any domain is followed by the proliferation of malware in that domain. Systems, including the latest mobile platforms, are laden with viruses, rootkits, spyware,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Revealing Packed Malware
Sep 2008
The past few years have witnessed a significant increase in malware threats to computer users, threats that also pose a serious risk to the Internet's integrity. Malware exploits software...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Intrusion Defense Firewall: Network-Level HIPS at the Endpoint
Oct 2008
Mobile computers that connect directly to the Internet outside of a company's firewall can introduce risk into the corporate network and thus require a higher level of security to protect against...
Provided by Trend Micro
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Real-Time Communications and Real-World Threats: Driving the Need for Real-Time Protection
Jun 2008
Of these systems, email is arguably the most indispensable, mission-critical business tool. But companies today are also adding instant messaging to the mix - for even faster real-time...
Provided by Trend Micro
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The Pressing Need for an Adaptive Threat Management Architecture
Mar 2009
No organization would purposefully create a network that can't meet business demands, but this may happen by proxy - as a result of poor and increasingly ineffective network security. Logic...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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Defending Against the Insider Threat
Mar 2009
The security threat posed by company insiders is all too real. In these times of economic uncertainty and widespread layoffs, the potential to create disgruntled employees is all the greater. But...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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WANTED: The Future of Network Security for Service Providers - Now!
Mar 2009
This paper explains why a next-generation network security solution is needed now, what such a solution entails, and the wide range of benefits that it yields. A significant obstacle to all of...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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Securing Internal Networks: The Evolving Role and Requirements for Intrusion Prevention Systems for Public Sector Organizations
Aug 2008
This paper explores the prevailing conditions driving the need for enhanced, internal network security as a prerequisite for establishing a logical set of technical countermeasures that will help...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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Securing Business Workflows and Networks for Partners
Mar 2009
Outsourcing and using third-party resources to deliver solutions has been a mainstay of IT organizations for years and continues to increase. In fact, according to Gartner, outsourcing will...
Provided by Microsoft
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Threats and Countermeasures: Security Settings in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista
Jan 2009
The purpose of this guide is to provide with a reference to security settings that provide countermeasures for specific threats against current versions of the Windows operating systems....
Provided by Microsoft
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Combating Botnets Using the Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter
Jun 2009
This paper discusses the nature of botnets, the threats they pose to today's networks, and how the Cisco Botnet Traffic Filter enables Cisco ASA appliances to fight botnets and to handle their...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
The Value of Integrated Security
Nov 2008
Security breaches can attack a company from a wide range of sources, including the company's own networked PCs and servers. New worms and viruses also are targeting network endpoints, a situation...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Network Foundation Protection
Jun 2009
This paper describes the best practices for securing the network infrastructure itself. This includes setting a security baseline for protecting the control and management planes as well as...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
SAFE Overview
Jun 2009
The ever-evolving security landscape presents a continuous challenge to organizations. The fast proliferation of botnets, the increasing sophistication of network attacks, the alarming growth of...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons
Sep 2008
Conventional wisdom is that phishing represents easy money. This paper examines the economics that underly the phenomenon, and very different picture. Phishing is a classic example of tragedy of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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iTrustPage: A User-Assisted Anti-Phishing Tool
Apr 2008
Despite the many solutions proposed by industry and the research community to address phishing attacks, this problem continues to cause enormous damage. Because of its inability to deter phishing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report
Jan 2008
The latest Security Intelligence Report includes a detailed examination of the threat ecosystem and the evolution of threats and countermeasures. With a focus on "Botnets" the paper describes the...
Provided by Microsoft
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Spamming Botnets: Signatures and Characteristics
Aug 2008
This paper focuses on characterizing spamming botnets by leveraging both spam payload and spam server traffic properties. Towards this goal, it developed a spam signature generation framework...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Antisocial Networks: Turning a Social Network Into a Botnet
Jun 2008
Antisocial Networks are distributed systems based on social networking Web sites that can be exploited by attackers, and directed to carry out network attacks. Malicious users are able to take...
Provided by Institute for Infocomm Research
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Measurement and Classification of Humans and Bots in Internet Chat
Jun 2009
The abuse of chat services by automated programs, known as chat bots, poses a serious threat to Internet users. Chat bots target popular chat networks to distribute spam and malware. This paper,...
Provided by USENIX Association
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Evaluating the Wisdom of Crowds in Assessing Phishing Websites
Oct 2008
Phishing is the process of enticing people to visit fraudulent websites and persuading them to enter identity information such as usernames and passwords. The information is then used to...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Evil Searching: Compromise and Recompromise of Internet Hosts for Phishing
Feb 2009
Criminals use web servers to host phishing websites that impersonate financial institutions, to send out email spam, to distribute malware, and for many other illegal activities. To reduce costs,...
Provided by Harvard University
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The Consequence of Non-Cooperation in the Fight Against Phishing
Oct 2008
A key way in which banks mitigate the effects of phishing is to have fraudulent websites removed or abusive domain names suspended. This 'Take-Down' is often subcontracted to specialist companies....
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Tips for Identity Theft Protection
Nov 2008
An identity thief takes personal information and uses it without knowledge. The thief may run up debts or even commit crimes in name. The following tips can help lower risk of becoming a victim...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
SSAC Advisory on Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks
May 2008
This paper describes a form of phishing attack that targets domain name registrants. The attacker impersonates a domain name registrar and sends an expected or anticipated correspondence to a...
Provided by Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers
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SSAC Advisory on Fast Flux Hosting and DNS
Mar 2008
"Fast flux" is an evasion technique that cyber-criminals and Internet miscreants use to evade identification and to frustrate law enforcement and anticrime efforts aimed at locating and shutting...
Provided by Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers
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White Papers
Improved Phishing Detection Using Model-Based Features
Apr 2008
Phishing emails are a real threat to internet communication and web economy. Criminals are trying to convince unsuspecting online users to reveal passwords, account numbers, social security...
Provided by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
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Detecting Known and New Salting Tricks in Unwanted Emails
Apr 2008
Spam and phishing emails are not only annoying to users, but are a real threat to internet communication and web economy. The fight against unwanted emails has become a cat-and-mouse game between...
Provided by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Improving Email Trustworthiness Through Social-Group Key Authentication
Apr 2008
The increasing use of email for phishing and unsolicited marketing has reduced the trustworthiness of email as a communication medium. Sender authentication is a known defense against these...
Provided by Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
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White Papers
Tracking Email Reputation for Authenticated Sender Identities
Apr 2008
With the amount of unsolicited emails on the rise, domain authentication schemes have been widely deployed to identify senders. Establishing a sender's identity does not guarantee its adherence to...
Provided by University of North Carolina
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White Papers
Social Honeypots: Making Friends With a Spammer Near You
Apr 2008
Social networking communities have become an important communications platform, but the popularity of these communities has also made them targets for a new breed of social spammers....
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Filtering Email Spam in the Presence of Noisy User Feedback
Apr 2008
Off late email spam filtering evaluations, such as those conducted at TREC, have shown that near-perfect filtering results are attained with a variety of machine learning methods when filters are...
Provided by Tufts University
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White Papers
Link Variable TrustRank for Fighting Web Spam
Oct 2008
Highly ranking position in the search engine query results can bring great benefits for websites. However, some websites use various techniques cheating search engine to increase their ranking,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Research on an Immune Mechanism Based Intelligent Spam Filter
Oct 2008
With regard to the problem that the traditional anti-spam filter is usually incapable of recognizing unknown and mutational characters, a novel anti-spam filter based on immune mechanisms is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Research on Packet Filter Rules of the Firewall Based on Visual Prolog
Oct 2008
The packet filter rules of firewall are established according to the needs of network security, while to manage filter rules becomes more and more complicated, and easy to make mistakes,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Improved Spam Filtering by Extraction of Information From Text Embedded Image e-Mail
Mar 2009
The increase of image spam, a kind of spam in which the text message is embedded into an attached image to defeat spam filtering techniques, is becoming an increasingly major problem.. For nearly...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
E-Mail Spam Filtering With Local SVM Classifiers
Mar 2008
This paper describes an e-mail spam filter based on local SVM, namely on the SVM classifier trained only on a neighborhood of the message to be classified, and not on the whole training data...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
Online Spam-Blog Detection Through Blog Search
Oct 2008
This paper proposes a novel post-indexing spam-blog (or splog) detection method, which capitalizes on the results returned by blog search engines. More specifically, they analyze the search...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Robust PageRank and Locally Computable Spam Detection Features
Apr 2008
Since the link structure of the web is an important element in ranking systems on search engines, web spammers widely use the link structure of the web to increase the rank of their pages. Various...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Spam Image Identification Using an Artificial Neural Network
Mar 2008
This paper proposes a method for identifying image spam by training an artificial neural network. A detailed process for preprocessing spam image files is given, followed by a description on how...
Provided by University of Akron
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White Papers
Detection and Prevention Methods of Botnet-Generated Spam
Mar 2009
Although anti-spam measures are improving, the spam volume is increasing due to the use of Botnets. Botnets facilitate an efficient generation and guaranteed delivery of large volumes of spam....
Provided by University of Texas
