Information Security and Assurance : (I.S.A)

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The COMODO Internet Security was designed to be the that integrates COMODO Antivirus, COMODO Firewall and COMODO Defense+ in a seamless manner. We have also fixed many bugs in COMODO Firewall with this release.
COMODO Firewall or COMODO Antivirus canbe installed as standalone products by using the same setup.
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GNS3 is a Graphical Network Simulator that allows emulation of
complex networks. You may be familiar with VMWare or Virtual PC
that are used to emulate various operating systems in a virtual
environment. These programs allow you to run operating systems
such as Windows XP Professional or Ubuntu Linux in a virtual
environment on your computer. GNS3 allows the same type of
emulation using Cisco Internetwork Operating Systems. It allows you
to run a Cisco IOS in a virtual environment on your computer. GNS3 is
a graphical front end to a product called Dynagen. Dynamips is the
core program that allows IOS emulation. Dynagen runs on top of Dynamips to create a more user friendly,
text-based environment. A user may create network topologies using simple Windows ini-type files with
Dynagen running on top of Dynamips.

Nampaknya, google mungkin akan ada pesaing baru bernama Bing.. Bing adalah product baru dari microsoft yg akan dilancarkan 3 Jun ni.. Tak berani nak komen banyak2 psal product microsoft ni, kang bahaye.. tp ikut rekod lame, Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), Red Ring of Death (RROD), adakah akan wujud juga istilah baru dalam produk ni? kite tunggu dan lihat..hehe

Berbanding google yg menggunakan "advertising-based search model" yg mane menghasilkan item yg paling popular mengikut query, Bing ni menggunakan ‘decision engine’ yg katenye bukan maen ikut popular je, die akan serahkan kat user untuk buat keputusan.. camtulah bunyinye..

“We are introducing a new level of organisation to search results, and our differentiator will be the best results for query,” Satya Nadella, senior vice- president (R&D , online services division) Microsoft.

Menurut diorg, sebagai contoh.. kalau kite search British Airways, Bing akan kuarkan nombor talipon service centre, harga tiket dan maklumat2 lain (walaupun kite just nak cari wikipedia..)

die kate.. “Google is great, but I think you still have to run multiple search queries to get that right answer. If Bing can change that, I will surely shift my search engine,”

July 10th, 2009

Conficker still dominating attack landscape

The Conficker botnet was by far the largest source of online attacks on the web in the first quarter of 2009, according to web services provider Akamai.

The company's quarterly State of the Internet report found that in the first months of the year, Conficker accounted for some two-thirds of all attack traffic.

First appearing in late 2008, Conficker spread throughout the web in 2009. By March, the worm touched off a media firestorm when researchers noted that many of the infected machines were programmed to dial an instruction server on 1 April.

Though no major attack occurred, the incident earned Conficker a fair amount of notoriety among IT professionals and home computer users alike.

Of the attacks that did occur in the first quarter of the year, most were from China and the US. According to Akamai, roughly half of all internet attacks originated from one of the two countries.

Akamai also revealed its findings on broadband speeds. Much like an earlier report from analyst firm Futuresource, the company placed Japan and South Korea as the countries with the fastest broadband speed.

The company also pegged Sweden as having the fastest broadband speeds in Europe, followed by the Netherlands and Romania.

Computer security is a branch of technology known as information security as applied to computers. The objective of computer security varies and can include protection of information from theft or corruption, or the preservation of availability, as defined in the security policy.
Computer security imposes requirements on computers that are different from most system requirements because they often take the form of constraints on what computers are not supposed to do. This makes computer security particularly challenging because it is hard enough just to make computer programs do everything they are designed to do correctly. Furthermore, negative requirements are deceptively complicated to satisfy and require exhaustive testing to verify, which is impractical for most computer programs. Computer security provides a technical strategy to convert negative requirements to positive enforceable rules. For this reason, computer security is often more technical and mathematical than some computer science fields.[citation needed]
Typical approaches to improving computer security (in approximate order of strength) can include the following:
Physically limit access to computers to only those who will not compromise security. Hardware mechanisms that impose rules on computer programs, thus avoiding depending on computer programs for computer security. Operating system mechanisms that impose rules on programs to avoid trusting computer programs. Programming strategies to make computer programs dependable and resist subversion.

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