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KABUL (Reuters) - Hackers have for the third time in less than a year crippled the main website of the Afghan Taliban, with a Taliban spokesman on Friday blaming Western intelligence agencies amid an intensifying cyber war with the insurgents.
The time has come to install a personal firewall of some kind. This is especially true if you are the proud user of a full-time connection to the net such as a cable or ADSL modem. If you have an old PC sitting idle, then a product called GNATBox Lite from GTA is a high-quality, free solution.

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Top 100 Network Security Tools

http://sectools.org/ SecTools.Org: Top 125 Network Security Tools For more than a decade, the Nmap Project has been cataloguing the network security community's favorite tools. In 2011 this site became much more dynamic, offering ratings, reviews, searching, sorting, and a new tool suggestion form .
Setting up a home server running an open-source operating system is a popular and useful activity. Useful in what ways, you may ask. You could use it to run a website , collect and send e-mail messages , store your OpenID credentials or serve your music around the home .

Set Up a Home Server | Webmonkey | Wired.com

http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/set_up_a_home_server/
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Mini ITX Case, Mini ITX Motherboard, DC-DC Power Supply - iDOTpc International, Inc

Open IIS Help , which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup , Common Administrative Tasks , and About Custom Error Messages .
Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/04/top-15-securityhacking-tools-utilities/

Top 15 Security/Hacking Tools & Utilities | Darknet - The Darkside

GMER - Rootkit Detector and Remover

Just another DDoS story - One Person's Perspective by Paul Laudanski "... Around the middle of February 2007, CastleCops itself became the target of a large scale DDoS. http://www.gmer.net/
Urgent notice [March 29, 2012]: Students: Want to gain valuable experience this summer writing real code for Nmap and earn a $5,000 stipend?

Nmap - Free Security Scanner For Network Exploration & Security Audits.

http://nmap.org/
Some of you reading this may be studying for Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) or perhaps some other certification at the moment. http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/63/2/

The Ethical Hacker Network - Virtual Lab with VMware

The Ethical Hacker Network - Pitfalls of a Home Based Ethical Hacking Business

By EH-Net Member Cutaway, GSEC-G, GSNA-G, GCUX-S, GAWN-C, and CISSP Self-employed security professionals, or those who are involved with small businesses, will invariably find themselves conducting security assessments and penetration tests of Internet facing systems and services. These activities will happen through resources that are generally not as robust as those supplied to security professionals in medium and large organizations.

How To Become A Hacker

As editor of the Jargon File and author of a few other well-known documents of similar nature, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizardly hacker?".

Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets | The Honeynet Project

Honeypots are a well known technique for discovering the tools, tactics, and motives of attackers. In this paper we look at a special kind of threat: the individuals and organizations who run botnets. A botnet is a network of compromised machines that can be remotely controlled by an attacker.

Worse than Zombies: The Mobile Botnets are Coming

By Ondrej Krehel , Identity Theft 911 As our smartphones have become our wallets and personal computers, holding everything from banking to social network information, they’ve become targets for hackers, scammers and criminals. Our phones hold a treasure trove of data—and the bad guys know it.