11 March 2008

Captains Log : we read up on a few subjects . a short explanation of the subjects is shown below XD

Social Engineering: Social engineering is a collection of techniques used to manipulate people into performing actions or divulging confidential information.While similar to a confidance trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery for information gathering or computer system access and in most cases the attacker never comes face-to-face with the victim.

Passwords:A password is a form of secret authentication data that is used to control access to a resource. The password is kept secret from those not allowed access, and those wishing to gain access are tested on whether or not they know the password and are granted or denied access accordingly.

Email Encryption: E-mail encryption refers to encryption, and often authentication of e-mail messages. E-mail encryption usually relies on public key cryptography.

Security Suites:A security suite can do many things such as firewall spyware malware all of these can be controlled by the suite

Proxy Servers: A Proxy Server is one that acts on behalf of another server, usually for Web related purposes. The proxy server is set up by an organisation's system administrator as a gateway between trusted (local server) and non-trusted networks (Internet).

Back Up and Restore: The idea of backing up is to make a copy of your important data as a precaution against losing the original, if you lost the original you can just import from the data disk or external HDD

Content Filtering: Content filtering software works by checking the information, eg: URL, typed in by a user against an exclusion list. This list could also contain words that would be blocked if the user tries to enter them.

Content Rating: This is to let you know who the site you are viewing is suited for The labeling is done using a web-based questionnaire. The content creators check which of the elements in the questionnaire are present or absent from their Web sites, and a small file is automatically generated using the RDF format, which is then linked to the content on one or more domains. Formerly, the system was based on PICS.