December CFCS Meeting.
 Phil
DuMas - Octurnis Network Defense Services
This month’s program was by the “white
hat hackers” as Phil DuMas from Octurnis
Network Defense Services called his people. Their
function is to tell you how secure your network is and to help
you defend it from intrusion.
Phil filled his time with tales of terror and doom insofar as most of our networks
are concerned. He even pointed out that in many cases networks can be penetrated
in less than a minute
According to Phil, the most hacked program
on earth is our old friend Windows XP and that running Linux is
even more dangerous. From the user standpoint there weren’t
many happy things to hear.
 I believe we all came away thinking
of ways to make our networks safer. In his highly interesting and
informative talk, he did point out some excellent ways to help
you be less vulnerable to intrusion by use of routers and firewalls
along with the security applications within the wireless networks.
During the program he passed around an antenna that is used to
drive around in a car and locate wireless networks and to be employed
to penetrate and use those networks.
Those of us that stay connected
to the net are in constant danger of having our computer network
used in ways that we would never approve of and as Phil pointed
out a number of times, it is YOUR I.P. that is the one being used!
The program was excellent and highly informative. Our sincerest thanks
to Phil and to Octurnis for their time.
For information regarding The Octurnis Corporation call 1-877 OCTURNIS
(628-8764) or log on to www.octurnis.com Author: Ken Larrabee
Date: 12/21/2003
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