Home Computer Security

Home Computer Security http://edu-observatory.org/olli/hcs/Week3.html Start your day by checking: http://www.us-cert.gov/current/ http://isc.sans.org/ CERT CERT, the home of the well-known CERT(R) Coordination Center, is located at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. We study internet security vulnerabilities, research long-term changes in networked systems, and develop information and training to help you improve security. http://www.cert.org/ equivalent ip address http://192.88.209.244/ http://www.us-cert.gov/current/ http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/ http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/bypublished http://www.cert.org/cert/information/sysadmin.html http://www.ocert.org/ CERT researches, analyzes, and develops technology and training aimed at helping administrators secure their systems and networks. Building on its long history of vulnerability research, CERT is involved with vulnerability remediation, publishing findings in the CERT Knowledgebase for registered users and in US-CERT vulnerability notes. Guess who the system administrator is for your computer(s) and network. You are! Information for New and Home Users http://www.cert.org/homeusers/ http://www.cert.org/homeusers/HomeComputerSecurity/ Before You Connect a New Computer to the Internet http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/before_you_plug_in.html Home Network Security http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/home_networks.html Here's What the World Can See About Your Browser http://centralops.net/asp/co/BrowserMirror.vbs.asp http://www.bufftony.com/browserinfo.html Browser Security Handbook http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/ Check your primary Domain Name Server (DNS) http://www.doxpara.com/ SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) was created in 2001 following the successful detection, analysis, and widespread warning of the Li0n worm. Today, the ISC provides a free analysis and warning service to thousands of Internet users and organizations, and is actively working with Internet Service Providers to fight back against the most malicious attackers. http://isc.sans.org/ http://isc.sans.org/diaryarchive.html http://isc.sans.org/survivaltime.html The survivaltime is calculated as the average time between reports for an average target IP address. If you are assuming that most of these reports are generated by worms that attempt to propagate, an unpatched system would be infected by such a probe. The average time between probes will vary widely from network to network. Some of our submitters subscribe to ISPs which block ports commonly used by worms. As a result, these submitters report a much longer 'survival time'. On the other hand, University Networks and users of high speed internet services are frequently targeted with additional scans from malware like bots. If you are connected to such a network, your 'survival time' will be much smaller. OTHER SOURCES OF ALERTS (AND ATTACKS) http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/threatexplorer/threats.jsp http://atlas.arbor.net/ http://atlas.arbor.net/worldmap/ http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/ http://www.viruslist.com/en/news BACKBONE http://www.internethealthreport.com/ equivalent ip address http://65.198.49.78/ http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm Test your bandwidth http://speedtest.frontiernet.net/ http://chicago.speedtest.frontiernet.net/ SECURITY INCIDENT SURVEY http://www.zeltser.com/network-os-security/security-incident-survey-cheat-sheet.html http://www.zeltser.com/network-os-security/security-incident-survey-cheat-sheet.pdf REFERENCES http://www.cert.org/homeusers/HomeComputerSecurity/ http://www.cert.org/homeusers/ http://www.cert.org/homeusers/goalof_computersecurity.html MISC http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/ http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp swormley1@mchsi.com