Monday, 18 April 2016

Network Security

Threats




Security Measures

Interesting facts about Passwords:


Why an 8 Character Password is harder to crack: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/739874/how-many-possible-combinations-in-8-character-password


Making a strong password: http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=3779&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1001&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable

Firewalls:



This is a good overview of Firewalls and a nice video on wireless networks that are unencrypted.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/firewall.htm

So there are different types of Firewalls. This site provides an overview.
http://www.bu.edu/tech/about/security-resources/host-based/intro/



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