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Home User Security: Personal Firewalls
Sarah Granger
SecurityFocus
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Firewalls play a crucial role in network and computer security. Part I of this series, Home User Security: Your First Defense, examined the typical functions of firewalls and how they can be of use on an individual level. More specifically, the need for personal firewalls in the home office was discussed. Now we will explore some of the best options on the market, many of which are available free of charge or are already installed on major operating systems. |
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Compromised Remailers
cryptome.org
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Technical analysis of security holes in anonymous remailers. |
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Anonymizer
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Anonymizer allows you to surf anonymously online. Available in both free and pay versions.
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Spyware: Are you being watched online?
MSNBC
Nov. 13, 2002
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Here’s a sobering thought: While you’re looking at your computer, it may be looking back at you. There is easy-to-get, even free, software that lets anybody spy on you, anytime you are on your computer.
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A New Code for Anonymous Web Use
Wired.com
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Peer-to-peer networks such as Morpheus and Audiogalaxy have enabled millions to trade music, movies and software freely. A group of veteran hackers is about to unveil a new peer-to-peer protocol that may eventually let millions more surf, chat and e-mail free from prying eyes.
Hacktivismo, a politically minded offshoot of the long-running hacker collective Cult of the Dead Cow, will announce the protocol -- called "Six/Four," . . . on its website
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Cookie management:
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Cookies, the small text files placed on your hard drive to track your activities can sometimes be useful, but they are often just annoying – what are they trying to figure out about you anyway? Microsoft’s latest version of Internet Explorer (5.5) offers improved cookie management over previous versions, allowing users to set different preferences for first-party and third-party (usually advertiser) cookies. Other programs like ActivatorDesk, Cookie Crusher and Cookie Pal allow more detailed cookie management.
Cookie-managing software.
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Internet anonymity for Windows power users
The Register
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There's no such thing as perfect anonymity if you're going to insist on connecting a computer to the Internet. But there is a lot you can do to make it extremely difficult for anyone to track you.
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Do-it-yourself Internet anonymity
The Register
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How do you make a truly anonymous post to a newsgroup or a BBS? How do you keep the Web sites you visit a secret? How do you send e-mail and ensure that its contents can't be read by someone who intercepts it? How do you chat anonymously?
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A Windows hack for web-surfing privacy
Politechbot
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Not even the most sophisticated forensics tool can re-construct your surfing
history if it's never written to disk in the first place. I've come up with
two rough hacks which accomplish this, one for Windows 95 and 98, and one
for 2K and XP. This is pretty beta stuff, admittedly:
RamSurf for Win-9x
RamSurf for Win-2K/XP
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HushMail
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Free web-accessible encrypted email.
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MailVault FAQ
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MailVault is a web-based email system intended to make it easy to send and receive encrypted or unencrypted email and to communicate using anonymous email pseudonyms.
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NetworkIce
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Personal and business firewalls available. Keep unauthorized snoops off your hard drive.
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PGP
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Pretty Good Privacy, PGP, is the standard for public-key encryption. Encrypt your email. Download the latest freeware here.
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SafeWeb
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SafeWeb allows you to surf anonymously online. Available in both free and pay versions.
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ZixCharge
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Free-to-consumers, and still theoretical, service that will enable anonymous online purchases tied to exisiting charge cards.
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ZoneAlarm
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Empowering Consumers on the Internet: How Privacy-Protecting Technologies Have Rendered Regulation Unnecessary
Jessica Melugin
May 2000
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Supporters of new government regulations not only ignore the economic incentives companies have to cater to consumer privacy preferences, they also overlook the technological tools already available to give consumers increased control over their personal information.
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TEMPEST GLOSSARY
NCSC
1981
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This Glossary was prepared by the National Communications Security Committee's Subcommittee on Compromising Emanations (SCOCE). It contains definitions of terms associated with TEMPEST, which is the investigation and study of compromising emanations from electromechanical and electronic communications and noncommunications signal processing equipement.
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Easy-to-use firewall free for personal use. Protect your computer from unauthorized intrusions, find out when your software tries to connect to the Internet. Business versions for sale also.
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