Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips

Spyware

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 10:30 AM PDT

There are a lot of  computer users that know little about “Spyware”, “Mal-ware”, “hijackers”, “Dialers” & many more. This will help you avoid pop-ups, spammers and all those baddies. What is spy-ware? Spy-ware is Internet jargon for Advertising Supported software (Ad-ware). It is a way for shareware authors to make money from a product, other than by [...]


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Monday, June 21, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips

Computer network

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 10:15 PM PDT

A computer network is a group of interconnected computers. Networks may be classified according to a wide variety of characteristics. This article provides a general overview of some types and categories and also presents the basic components of a network. Network classification The following list presents categories used for classifying networks. Scale Based on their scale, networks can be [...]


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Friday, June 18, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips

E-Mail Discussion Groups

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 10:52 PM PDT

One of the benefits of the Internet is the opportunity it offers to people worldwide to communicate via e-mail. The Internet is home to a large community of individuals who carry out active discussions organized around topic-oriented forums distributed by e-mail. These are administered by software programs. Probably the most common program is the listserv. A [...]


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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips

OSPF Basic

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:35 AM PDT

OSPF stands for open shortest path first. It's a Link state routing protocol .OSPF matrix is Cost which is inversely proportional to bandwidth (108/Link bandwidth).....


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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips

Why conduct a penetration test ?

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 11:31 AM PDT

From a business perspective, penetration testing helps safeguard your organisation against failure, through: Preventing financial loss through fraud (hackers, extortionists and disgruntled employees) or through lost revenue due to unreliable business systems and processes. Proving due diligence and compliance to your industry regulators, customers and shareholders. Non-compliance can result in your organisation losing business, receiving heavy fines, [...]


What is a Penetration Test ?

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 05:17 AM PDT

Penetration Test  - Much of the confusion surrounding penetration testing stems from the fact it is a relatively recent and rapidly evolving field. Additionally, many organisations will have their own internal terminology (one man’s penetration test is another’s vulnerability audit or technical risk assessment). At its simplest, a penetration-test (actually, we prefer the term security assessment) [...]


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Friday, April 23, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips

Electronic Data Interchange ( EDI)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:51 AM PDT

EDI is Electronic Data Interchange. It is an inter-organisational exchange of documents in a structured and processable form. It is a key to today’s paperless office. EDI has become a major means of business communications among large companies in the U.S. The use of EDI eliminates many of the problems associated with traditional information flow. Such [...]


Wildcard Masks

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:29 AM PDT

Wildcard masks define the subset of the 32 bits in the IP address that must be matched. Wildcards are used with access lists to specify a host, network or part of a network. Wild card masks work exactly the opposite of subnet masks. In subnet masks, 1 bits are matched to the network portion of [...]


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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Networking Articles and Tips

Networking Articles and Tips

Data Encoding

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:57 AM PDT

The first step towards understanding communications is to look at computer data at its base level. As all of us know computer and computer device manage, store and exchange data using electronic pulses or digital signails that comes in two varieties, the binary digit “0″ indicates the absence “OFF” and “I” indicates “ON” the [...]


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