Internet security primer

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Sounds like RPC? It is. They can take over your machine. In the old days, the network was small but now the network is the Internet so anyone anywhere in the world could access your files if you let them.

Why waste a lot of effort if the door is unlocked? Do it before the hackers do! They could shut them down. Security: Who wins? Windows, SGI are more open than normal. This can be automated using Minimum Installation guidelines. What is the data xfer rate of your tape drives? It must have a DST of your internal network. Outbound packets must not have a DST of your internal net.

Yes, then ok. Replace scripts with whatever you named your script directory. No, then you are. Yes because LM is created by default. If there, then yes. Yes, then you are. This breaks ping. Constant vigilance and awareness is the best defense. Morgan Gardner Dec. KotaSudharani1 Mar. Ma'am Jenny Jul. Teacher at st. Show More. Total views.

You just clipped your first slide! Clipping is a handy way to collect important slides you want to go back to later. Super easy. If you use Thunderbird to read your email, you can use the Enigmail plugin that seamlessly encrypts for you.

If you want a web-based email account that has tightly integrated PGP and no ads, try out hushmail. There are a bunch of other cool things you can do with PGP like electronically sign your messages. If no one has tampered with the message and you wrote it, then this verification proves that it was you who wrote the message. So cool. So, great. One pretty easy way to do it is through something called cryptocat.

This is a Firefox extension that allows you to very easily have fairly secure chats. That way, whatever you do online cannot be traced back to you because it hops through a secure set of encrypted layers on different volunteer servers first.

Then, open up the Tor Browser which will automatically connect you to the Tor network , and then go to cryptocat and install the extension. Now you can open up a chat room and have a nice time chatting securely and anonymously.

You can use the Tor browser for anything else too. Besides using Tor, you might want to stop using Google for many things. If you have an Android phone, you can get these three cool apps that help with security. First is TextSecure , which allows you to exchange encrypted texts with anyone else who has TextSecure.

The same company makes RedPhone , which allows you to speak with anyone securely who has RedPhone. I will admit that the voice quality in the case I used it in so far was mediocre. Fun times. If you want to keep a USB stick or a part of your hard drive that is encrypted in case it gets stolen or something , the TrueCrypt tool is fantastic.