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Job interviews: So you think you've got them sussed?

Comment So, having talked to my colleagues, here are our thoughts on some of the obvious dos and don'ts at interview. However good you think you are at job interviews, it doesn't hurt to go over the basics. They could be standing between you and success...

Tags: promotion, interviews, careers

[15 May 2008]

Give 16-Bit Apps Their Own Separate Processes

whitepaper This simulates how MS-DOS based systems viewed systems and is necessary for some older applications that run together and share resources. By default, Windows XP will only open one 16-bit process and cram all 16-bit apps running on the system at a...

Tags: ms dos, windows xp, benefit, share

[15 May 2008]

Stateful Inspection Firewall Session Table Architecture and Timeouts

whitepaper Furthermore, dynamical timeouts according to resource utilizations can improve securities of both protected hosts and firewall itself against DoS attacks. Stateful Inspection has become a classical technology for network firewall.

Tags: firewalls

[15 May 2008]

WS-SecurityPolicy Decision and Enforcement for Web Service Firewalls

whitepaper Hence, it is necessary to combine WS-Security processing and DoS protection. A known weakness of Web Services is their vulnerability to Denial of Service attacks exploiting XML processing characteristics.

Tags: firewalls

[15 May 2008]

Infrastructure Protection on Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 4500 Series Switches

whitepaper The infrastructure is often the target of Denial of Service (DoS) and other attacks that can directly or indirectly disrupt the network operation. A key element in an organization's overall security posture is the security of the network...

Tags: switching

[15 May 2008]

Protection for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches Against Denial-of-Service Attacks

whitepaper Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks continue to be a serious threat to enterprise and service provider networks. The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 32 and Supervisor Engine 720 include hardware-based mechanisms that can effectively...

Tags: switching

[14 May 2008]

Server Farm Security in the Business Ready Data Center Architecture v2.1

whitepaper Hackers can use several currently available tools to inspect networks and to launch intrusion and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Enterprise data centers contain the assets, applications, and data that are often targeted by electronic attacks.

Tags: security management

[11 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…

Comment I bought my first DOS PC because I needed to be compatible with the software and OS used in my industry. My previous non-DOS computer had been much more pleasant, secure and effective, but although it could run a PC emulator, it was not really...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Deploys Microsoft ISA Server 2004 Within Microsoft IT (Level 200)

whitepaper The attendee will learn how Microsoft deals with internal DOS attacks against the proxy arrays and common management issues associated with arrays which span physical locations. The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft's internal IT...

Tags: firewalls

[12 Apr 2008]

Best Practices for Preventing DoS/Denial of Service Attacks

whitepaper Many corporate websites have suffered from illegal denial-of-service (DoS) attacks more than once. The best practices in this paper are a sample of some of the common conclusions companies have come to following a DoS attack.

Tags: denial of service, attack, practices, lessons

[10 Apr 2008]

Elsist Saves Six Months of Development Time Using Objective Edit and Objective Toolkit Pro

whitepaper The challenge was to port the existing DOS IDE to Windows 95 and Windows NT as quickly as possible. Elsist offers hardware and software for industrial automation. The company designs and manufactures microprocessor systems and develops PC- and PLC...

Tags: software engineering, program, wave, rogue

[10 Apr 2008]

Cisco Security Advisory: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software

whitepaper The Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) software contains a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability that may cause some devices that run WAAS software (WAE appliance and NM-WAE 502 module) to stop processing all types of traffic, including...

Tags: security management

[03 Apr 2008]

Cisco Bandwidth Control for Education Networks

whitepaper Higher bandwidth networks also offer an attractive target for hackers, and emerging Denial-of-Service (DoS) and worm attacks can take advantage of bandwidth-rich environments to propagate faster than before, flooding network resources.

Tags: bandwidth issues

[03 Apr 2008]

Aerospace Fastener Group Upgrades System, Watches Scalability and Productivity Soar

whitepaper In addition, the company's shop order and inventory systems were based on an MS-DOS platform and were not scalable. LFC has a sister company that generates invoices for both companies. Information was being driven back and forth between the...

Tags: scalability

[02 Apr 2008]

Design Guide: Arbor Networks' Peakflow DoS

whitepaper The Peakflow DoS patent-pending technology focuses on network availability rather than simply identifying threats. Peakflow DoS identifies any traffic anomaly and generates recommendations for mitigating it, thus enabling peak network availability.

Tags: network security

[12 Mar 2008]

Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'

News Network Box warns that the software firewalls used to protect ATMs are not able to prevent DoS attacks or harvesting of consumer's personal data after the data travels through the bank's network. Security from A to Z

Tags: atm, banks, malware, box

[04 Mar 2008]

How to Set Up the Microsoft Network Client Version 3.0 for MS-DOS

whitepaper This startup disk allows a computer to start from a floppy disk that contains the basic MS-DOS system files with networking. The Microsoft Windows NT Network Client Administrator tool allows the user to create a network installation startup disk.

Tags: network operating systems

[28 Feb 2008]

Patching: Is It Always With the Best Intentions?

whitepaper This paper will describe how hooking into the operating system has changed over the years, including some examples of the most 'Interesting' methods from MS DOS, early Windows versions and present-day contemporary methods.

Tags: anti-virus

[28 Feb 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?

Comment The DOS operating system was bought in by Microsoft, Windows was based on ideas from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center already implemented by Apple, word processing was well established before Word, spreadsheets were popular before Excel and so on.

Tags: innovation, yahoo!, mergers, microsoft

[20 Feb 2008]

Operator of Fazoli's and Long John Silver's Grows Their Business

whitepaper In 2001, as their business began to grow, Nellis found that their old Microsoft MS-DOS - based software product, from a company no longer in existence, would not support their expansion plans nor even their day-to-day operational needs.

Tags: back-office

[19 Feb 2008]

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