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Entries for July, 2008

How Do Brute Force Password Crackers Work? And how to avoid your password being cracked by a password cracker

Brute force password cracker is one kind of  Password Crackers. Password Crackers is a piece of software that attempts to break into a system by trying many different user names and passwords. To break a password, a Password Cracker uses two methods of attack to break into your account. The first method is Brute Force […]

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Authentication, Authorization, and Identification – The three pillars of Access Control

I wrote this article because I need to talk about this topic to a group of local bank executives. What I have in mind is how to get them to understand the vague differences between these three terms using illustrations from our daily lives. For these reasons, I picked up a number of books to […]

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Firewall: The Realization of a Company’s Internet and Network Access Policy

The original definition of a firewall is: “a partition made of fireproof material to prevent the spread of a fire from one part of a building or ship to another or to isolate an engine compartment, as on a plane, automobile, etc.” 1 Today, in the computer world, the term refers to any piece of […]

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