New Guide For Windows 2000 PRO
Via SANS Institute:
New Guide For Windows 2000 PRO
The US National Institute for Standards and Technology released
a security guide for Windows 2000 Professional desktop systems in
configurations used by office workers, at home users, or road-warriors.
NIST is inviting comments and suggestions on the guide.–31 January 2002 Lawrence Livermore Bans Wireless LANs
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a national defense technology
research lab in California, has banned the use of wireless local area
networks (LANs) due to security concerns. A lab spokesman said that
Los Alamos National Laboratory might introduce a wireless network
ban as well.
[Editor’s (Murray) Note: Yesterday I received an ad for a wireless
access point for $130-, down 50% from a year ago. Connectivity
trumps security every time. A ban cannot succeed. The only way
to successfully exclude wireless is to close the network. Get used
to it.]–4 February 2002 Improving 802.11b Security
Wireless networking standards 802.11a and 802.11b are both popular and
vulnerable. A new security algorithm, called Temporal Key Integrity
Protocol is being tested. It generates a new encryption key for every
ten kilobytes of data transmitted.
