There are lots of papers and articles on the
latest security related technologies and issues. Many papers discuss
security technologies in detail. It has tons of resources.
Lots of free tools and resources for Windows 9x,
ME, 2000, XP. Many Process Monitoring, Network Monitoring, File
Systems Management (NTFS DOS), CPU Monitoring...
Lots of nice tools for blackhat (malicious
hackers) and whitehat (security professionals). L0pht is part of
AtStake now. This is definitely a website to check out!
Security section of Microsoft Website. It
of course has lots of security advisories, articles on securing systems,
best practices, security tools, and etc... If you have Windows
systems, you want to check this website.
In the Briefing section, there are lots of
hacking techniques, presentations, and tools. BlackHat provides one of
the best training on the latest trend of hacking. The best way to
learn information security is to see what hackers are doing!
This is one of the major sites that tracks
security vulnerabilities and advisories from hardware and software
vendors. You should subscribe to the CERT advisories if you want to
keep up to date with the security issues out there!
Tiny Personal Firewall - Powerful software based
firewall. Highly recommended. Version
2 firewall and documentation
is free, but less user friendly. Later versions are not free, but
much more user friendly..
