Forum: Newbie Security Questions

Behind a D-Link DI-704P with Comcast Internet, I periodically get disconnected every 10 minutes or so, though the other nodes on the network stay...

i recently found out that my router doesnt do udp, but i was wondering about this: when i look up the details about some of the games i play, age of...

Where can I find a good starting point for hash funtion history? I've searched the web however I can't seem to find anything about the origins of...

I wanted to see how "1514" looks after encrypting it with MD5 algorithm. So I opened the Cain and Abel to use its Hash Calculator. To my surprise I...

Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content) outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by a...

i was in the computer lab at my school today and i noticed that a few of the computers had not been logged off, so i went to log them off and noticed...

A friend of mine has a business where, from time to time, would like to go online from his home and check out the status from an online camera which...

our college seems to have a fire wall which blocks acess to certain sites like those with MP3 int he url or stuff anyway the thing is that it is so...

Help me. I was messing around in dos yesterday, and when I booted my pc this morning, I found that I had changed one of my users passwords through...

I am getting hits on my port 1026 from china. Although I have turned off messenger service this bothers me. Is this something that I should be...

Hello all- In my short time as an IT Auditor, one of the main things auditees ask for (besides wondering if I am human) is industry best practices...

Hello all- I am wondering about encrypting data in a database. Basically, I am wondering if data in MS-SQL, Sybase, and Oracle should be...

Anyone please help!! I bought a program off ebay and found out it was a pirated copy and then my computer has been acting goofy. Yahoo antispy...

Hi guyz i have a question, what are password hashes ? i always here about those as well as hash tables, i asked about it in...

hi geeks... i am connected to internet using a proxy server in my colledge on port 808.. well i wanna know wat proxy server they are using squid...

I am working on my mother-in laws computer. Most of her *.lnk files have been removed from her desktop. Also I cannot get any of the programs to...

What's your two cents on ballot protection? What are some ways hackers can modify or read a ballot when it is on a server, in transit or on a...

Again a Newbie question from a Newbie. Is it possible to modify the packet headers. If yes then how? Regards, Navdeep

Hello, i just signed up yesterday as my search for an answer to a question brought me to this board, but i am going to have to ask the question since...