Relying on firewalls? Here's why you'll be hacked

Why Enterprises Need More than Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems

At the approach of the next millenium, enterprises are facing a lot of challenges and have to decide in which direction their communication networks will evolve. At the moment we see a large shift towards using global intranets and extranets. Most of the time it is also necessary to connect these networks to the Internet. During the consultancy work we provided in this area we concluded that al...

The Fundamental Reasons Why Laptop Computers should not be Used on Your Lap

As a tendency to use new technologies, gadgets such as laptop computers are becoming more popular among students, teachers, businessmen and office workers. Today laptops are a great tool for education and learning, work and personal multimedia. Millions of men, especially those in the reproductive age, are frequently using their laptop computers on the lap (thigh). Over the past several years, ...

On Firewalls and Tunneling

This paper gives a comprehensive overview of the stateof-the-art in rewall and tunneling technologies. We describe the major rewall components and several approaches for legitimate and illegitimate tunneling techniques and investigate their interrelations. Finally we shortly introduce a highly adaptable tunneling application, having the potential to circumvent virtually every rewall system.

How my genome was hacked

Why be diurnal? Or, why not be cathemeral?

As a behavioural strategy, cathemerality is thought to confer considerable advantages by allowing animals to extend activity flexibly into either the diurnal or nocturnal phase in response to the prevailing ecological conditions. Factors such as temperature, access to food sources and minimising the risk of predation are all thought to be important in promoting cathemerality, although previous ...