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Archive for November, 2008

Well, i found ineresting book on my hard drive. And there was a networking Glossary which i would like to share.

• ad hoc - Refers to a wireless network that is computer to computer, without a wireless router.
• adware - Programs that are designed to display advertising to the user that may not be expected or wanted.
• antispyware/antiadware – Software programs used to detect, remove, and prevent adware and spyware programs from being installed on computer systems.
• antivirus – Software programs used to detect, remove, and prevent computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horses from being installed on computer systems.
• backup – The process of copying critical files to another device or location to protect against the loss of data in the event of a file-destroying virus, loss, or physical trauma to a computer.
• bit - Short for “binary unit” (or binary digit); this is single digit of information, which is a 1 or 0.
• bot – Programs that install themselves on people’s computers for malicious purposes, often used as remote-attack tools to allow a hacker to gain control over your computer.
• bot army – Thousands of computers that have been taken over by hackers remotely, typically to anonymously conduct distributed denial-of-service attacks.
• broadband – A term used to describe high-speed Internet service. The term comes from the fact that a broad range of frequencies are used to attain high information-exchange rates.
• brute-force attack - Defeating password or encrypted data by successively trying a large number of possibilities (for example, exhaustively trying password combinations using a dictionary attack program).
• byte – A standard-size “chunk” of computer language or network information. A byte is made of 8 bits.

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Microsoft may rename its Live Search service. It is announced that re-branding of Windows Live Search can be done in the first months of the next year. The new name supposedly is Kumo, but this information is not confirmed.

And on the base of Live.com will be created new social oriented portal. Steve Ballmer said theat Microsoft was not interested in buying Yahoo so they (Microsoft) should find alternative ways to get some sharemarket.

Microsoft released new updated products: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.

As Microsoft said new products allow to improve applications development based on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Security was updated. SP1 updates allow to install new application more easily and etc.

At the present moment Microsoft works under Visual Studio 2010. Visual C++ updates will allow you to work under Windows 7; new editor based on WPF will be available too.

Dragon Network Sensor constitutes an intellectual programme defence from network intrusions. This system allows to identify scan and network attacks.

Improved technology – Dragon Intrusion Prevention (IPS) – was made to block attacks, to reduce DOS attack risks and to prevent information theft, being completely invisible inside the network. Based on Dragon Intrusion Detection technology, IPS can give a notice of attacks, interrupt sessions base on TCp and UDP, and ISP can set the rules for firewalls automatically. Known attacks can be inserted into a Black List, but access to the local resources can be allowed by White List.

Dragon system can be supplied with big attack library and can be configured automatically to prevent those attacks.

This is a brief of Dragon system. If you would like to buy and review all the options of Dragon please refer to http://www.tronicint.ru/network/dragon7.php That website is in Russian.

Google has announced new version of Chrome web-browser. Now security specialists approve that there is no Carpet Bomb and other vulnerabilities.

Chrome Patch is available for developers, so you will not get any alert to update Chrome browser.

According to the news from Google Blog there were new stategy of loading Windows files (*.exe, *.dll, *.bat) in Chrome 0.3.154.3.

According to the information from Net Applications Inc. the Chrome share of the market is less than 1%.

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