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Wireless Networking for the IT Professional. Now Available at Interface Technical Training

Why IT professionals need to understand wireless Wireless networks are becoming increasingly more important to all organizations, from  mall mom and pop stores, to major corporations. It is forecasted that by 2018 wireless devices will account for 61% of IP traffic, greatly exceeding traffic from wired devices, which will reduced to a mere 39% of … Continue reading Wireless Networking for the IT Professional. Now Available at Interface Technical Training

Using the Low Orbit Ion Cannon for Denial of Service Testing

A very common attack technique in use today is the Denial of Service (DoS) attack. DoS attacks are effective in degrading the performance of targeted systems, effectively taking them offline and preventing legitimate system use. A typical DoS attack goes like this: The attacker identifies one or more computers on the Internet as targets The … Continue reading Using the Low Orbit Ion Cannon for Denial of Service Testing

Microsoft Patch Tuesday on August 13th – Security Privileges and Denial of Service

Microsoft released on Thursday August 8, 2013 the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for August 2013. The bulletin contains what updates and patches will be installed as part of patch Tuesday. Here is a summary of what is included. There will be 8 patches 3 critical. The technical bulleting 1, first critical update affects Windows … Continue reading Microsoft Patch Tuesday on August 13th – Security Privileges and Denial of Service