Resources
There are a number of excellent sites available on the internet where
you can learn about the traffic going through your Router or how to analyze
your data within Link Logger. These are some of the best:
See what traffic other people are seeing at DShield.org
and get a sense of what the current attacks are on the Internet. You can use DShieldUp, a free Link
Logger utility to contribute to the DShield effort in identifying
attacks and cleaning up the Internet.
PCFlank.com has
one of the best collection of self scans available on the
internet. More the just the usual TCP and UDP scans, PCFlank
includes ICMP, IGMP scans and scans for a number of known exploits and
trojan.
DSL Reports
is also an excellent source of information and has the best
discussion forums for Linksys,
Netgear
and ZyXEL
products as well as one of the best security
groups. If you have questions this is the place to go as the
technical abilities of it's forum members is second to none on the
internet. Most vendors (including ours) have tech support people
who participate or are otherwise involved in the discussion groups on
DSLReports also known as BroadbandReports.com.
SmallNetBuilder
is another excellent site for reviews and information concerning small
networks. Tim Higgins is a bit of a legend in this area.
Practically
Networked is an excellent site for reviews and information
concerning Linksys, Netgear, Zyxel and their competitors.
SpeedGuide.net
is another excellent source of information and has a number of discussion
forums.
SecurityFocus.com
is the leading site on the internet concerning software vulnerabilities
(Bugtraq is the authoritative source in this area). While
SecurityFocus is where the security professionals go for information, they do offer
other areas for people just
starting to learn about internet security.
Robert
Graham's article on understanding firewall log data is considered a
classic and is required reading for anyone who will be looking at log
files.
Simovits
Consulting is one of the leading authorities on trojans and internet
security.
Dark-e contains
some of the most up to date trojan information available anywhere on the
internet.
Security issues are escalating according to CERT/CC in their CERT/CC
Statistics 1988-2002 report.
CERT/CC Advisory
CA-2001-20 Continuing Threats to Home Users. Explains why as a
home user you should be concerned about the recent number of Internet
Worms (Red, W32/Leaves, etc), and other attacks on the internet.
CERT/CC Home
Network Security is an overview of security risks and
countermeasures associated with Internet connectivity, especially in the
context of "always-on" or broadband access users. Good
read for an excellent overview of internet security.
CERT/CC Organized
Crime and Cyber-Crime: Implications for Business.
CERT/CC Current
Scanning Activity. A summary of some of the currently
common scans on the internet and the the vulnerabilities that hackers are
currently trying to exploit with those scans.
US
Federal Trade Commission article concerning scam emails asking
for personal or financial information (ie your credit card) known in the
hacking world as 'Phishing'.
SANS Resources - The
Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities.
Know
Your Enemy: Statistics An excellent paper on understanding how aggressive
hackers can be and why track statistics from the Honeynet
Project.
A
Snapshot of Global Internet Worm Activity An interesting report showing just how common worm attacks are on the
internet from Arbor Networks.
Report from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Hackers:
a Canadian police perspective
Need to know what application is using what port, then try Vision
from Foundstone.
Sample
report from Link Logger that we occasionally update, showing attacks
and scans on one of our test networks.
Some Threads Posted by us on DSLReports
New or ongoing worms or attacks
Please email our webmaster@LinkLogger.com
if you know of any others sites which we should link to...
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