Forum: Newbie Security Questions

I am currently in the sixth form of a secondary school in England. The school has recnetly installed a wireless network on top of it's existing one....

Hi, I heard alot about IP spoofing, and sometimes used it, but i want to know how it really works, does it just change the source IP in all the...

ok, my father had locked a couple of my game sites and such(nothing bad, just stuff like aim, and myspace and sites like that) with this thing called...

Hullo fellow geeky fellows, Me here with another silly question in my quest for knowledge. How can I tell if I am anonimously proxied? I...

Hi, My laptop runs windows2000, and for some reason there is nowhere to scan for a wifi network. I know there are 3 wifi networks here, because my...

Is it possible to trace an IP adress which internet connection is going through proxy server and if yes, please tell me how?

Hi guys, The place I am moving to, now has a wireless access point in there, and I am guessing that they may not be up on their security at all. ...

I needed something that would let me run a command on a series of IPs, one after the other. I wrote IPIterator to play with FreeBASIC and...

hey there,just been to tor's site after someone mentioned it in the post i made asking about anonymous proxies. it says that it isn't stable with...

I'm using Windows XP and for some strange reason, I cannot use telnet to connect to any ports on other servers. I checked my firewall and made sure...

i'm interested in keeping my information private from sites that i visit while online,i was wondering where the best place to find out about...

hi everyone,i'm glad to be a member of this community now.i'm quite eager to learn as much from all u security freaks as is possible as these are...

hi all now that i've created a port scanner and now i just want to do some enhancement in it. i've heard that 1.beyond scanning the ports it can...

hi all when i'm doing a port scanner i'm getting exception "connection refused" what to do ?can u explain ? its in windows...

Right I don't know if anyone can help me here, and I want to add that if it is not a suitable question for this forum, I would rather learn why, as...

i'm interested in implementing open SSH into my system to keep my passwords n such safe,my isp recommends them. however my OS doesn't seem to be...

:confused: Hey ppl, i am curious to know weather there is a way to find out to see how many correct and incorrect password entries there has been on...

Hello all, I am a long time lurker, and I now have reason to submit my latest conundrum for public comment. Hopefully I can gain some insight. ...