• How to Open Ports in the Windows XP Internet Connection Firewall

• Protect your PC (from Microsoft)
• Security Monitoring and Attack Detection Planning Guide (from Microsoft)

• File Checksum Integrity Verifier utility (from Microsoft)
• Verify system file digital signatures with sigverif (from Microsoft)

• Data Execution Prevention (DEP) feature in Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, and Windows Server 2003 (from Microsoft)

• Mitigating the Threats of Equipment Theft - Stolen Laptop example (by Steve Riley)

• Hidden Threat: Alternate Data Streams (by Ray Zadjmool)
• How To Use NTFS Alternate Data Streams (from Microsoft)

• HijackThis Log Tutorial (by Merijn)
• Paul Collins' Windows Startups List
• Tony Klein's CLSID/BHO/Toolbar List
• Parasite howto page from DoxDesk

• How to strengthen the security settings for the Local Machine zone in Internet Explorer (from Microsoft)
• Increase Your Browsing and E-Mail Safety (from Microsoft)

• Win/2000 Firewalling (by Andrew McHugh)
• Using IPSec to Lock Down a Server
• Using IPSec to Lock Down a Server (by Steve Riley)
• How to block specific network protocols and ports by using IPSec

• What is a Digital Signature? (by David Youd)

• Installing and configuring a Certification Authority in Win/2000
• How to Manage Certificates in Windows 2000
• Microsoft Network Security Hotfix Checker (Hfnetchk.exe)
• How to Disable NetBIOS Null Sessions (from Brown)

• Hacking Network Printers

  Hacker Sites

• Addict3D.org
• Megasecurity.org - alternate link (Trojan archive)
• Megasecurity.org (Trojan archive)
• Phrack.org
• Rootkit.com

• Hacker Defender Home
• Hacker Defender Home (alternate)

• Underground Trojan download site

• Cain & Abel (network sniffer/password cracker)
• SSL Main in the Middle Attacks (from sans.org)

• Governmentsecurity.org

• Crackspider.net
• mscracks.com

• Trojan Horses - What they are & how to stop them
• xploiter.com

  Keyloggers

• Powered Keylogger
• Stealth Keylogger

If you know of any useful sites that should be included in this list please send them by e-mail to kochhar@physiology.wisc.edu

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