Professor Scott’s

Running List of Links of Educational Interest:

Last update: 15 March 2006

Web Site

URL

Notes:

IASE

q Security Checklists

q DISA FSO Whitepapers

http://iase.disa.mil/index2.html

http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/checklist/index.html

http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/whitepaper/index.html

Information Assurance Support Environment The DOD IA Portal

A great Checklist and Whitepaper site that is very active for Security Information

ISSA

http://www.issa.org/

http://www.issa-cos.org/

Information Systems Security Association

To increase information systems security knowledge among security professionals and the community by providing outstanding education, training, and networking opportunities to our membership and the community at large.

Spybot Search & Destroy Anti spyware utility

http://www.safer-networking.org

A very good spy ware tool.

Ewido Security Suite Spyware & virus protection

http://www.ewido.net

Ad-Aware SE Anti spyware utility

http://www.lavasoft.com

Microsoft AntiSpyware Anti spyware utility

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s

A good spy ware tool from Microsoft. It runs all the time. So far I like it.

SpywareBlaster Anti spyware utility

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com

Hitman Pro (Dutch) All-in-one spyware solution

http://www.hitmanpro.nl

Security Jetico Personal Firewall

http://www.jetico.com/jpfirewall.htm

Comprehensive Firewall

Kerio Personal Firewall

http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html

ZoneAlarm Firewall

http://www.zonelabs.com

A very good personal firewall

Malware Destroyer Malware removal tool

http://www.emco.is/malwaredestroyer/featur

CWShredder Cool Web Search

http://www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder

Spamihilator Spam filter

http://www.spamihilator.com

Hijack This Hijackers detection / removal

http://www.merijn.org

This will show you what your browser has for software re-directions.

CleanCache Browser & Windows cleaner

http://www.buttuglysoftware.com/CleanCach

AVG Antivirus Anti virus utility

http://www.grisoft.com

avast! Home Edition Anti virus utility

http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html

Insecure Org

http://www.insecure.org/tools.html

A Great list of Security tools.

100 Top Downloads for XP

http://100-downloads.com/

Top-100 essential downloads of free software & freeware for Windows XP

Almost Every file format in the world!

http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html

File extensions.

Union for Public Domain

http://www.public-domain.org/

Mission: Union for the Public Domain (UPD) is a non-profit citizens group. Their mission is to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property. They are a membership organization, acting as an independent voice on intellectual property issues.

Phrack Magazine

http://www.phrack.org/

Phrack Magazine is made available to the public, as often as possible, free of charge. New issues are announced in various forums and are made available on the website.

The Hackers Choice

http://www.thc.org/

The major focus of THC is to investigate and analyze common security solutions and propose concepts for circumventing security mechanisms. Such concepts range from technical papers demonstrating security aspects of loadable kernel modules to highly efficient network analysis and penetration test software.

RFC 2828 - Internet Security Glossary

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2828.html

RFC 2828 - Internet Security Glossary

Port Numbers

http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers

TCP / IP port numbers and their normal assignments.

IP Tables --

firewall setup guide

http://www.iptablesrocks.org/

Iptablesrocks was created to provide a publicly available, easy to understand iptables guide & tutorial for the. Iptables is a linux package for managing IPv4 (and optionally IPv6) packet filtering and NAT (Network Address Translation). Iptables can be configured to function as a firewall, a NAT mechanism, a packet filter or all 3 at once.

An Atlas of Cyberspace

http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html

Thematic and conceptual maps of the world-wide communications network in which the WWW exists. Maps include detailed explanations of networks in selected cities. Good for locating diagrams of different types of networks.

Living Internet

http://www.livinginternet.com/

A comprehensive site containing historical and descriptive information about the internet. Discussions and descriptive information on: Internet, Web, Email, Usenet, IRC, MUDs, and Lists.

PC Magazine

http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/?legacy=cnet

Technology reviews and articles from a leading computer trade journal.

Programmer's Heaven

http://www.programmersheaven.com/

Online reference for programmers containing file downloads, industry news, message boards and helpful links for Pascal, COBOL, C, C++, Java and other languages.

The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/

Includes links, recommended readings, and on-line courses in the study of cyberculture.

Online Dictionary of Computing

http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/

Searchable on-line dictionary of computer related terms, including acronyms, architecture, operating systems, and programming.

Resources for Programming Language Research

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/language-research.html

From a former academic, this list of links includes an annotated list of overviews of specific computer languages, along with links to resources grouped by subject.

Science.gov

http://www.science.gov/

Conduct a unified search of the U.S. government’s vast stores of scientific and technical information, including research from 17 U.S. government science organizations within 12 Federal agencies.

W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative

http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Information on policies and guidelines for designing Web sites to be accessible for users of assistive technology.

WebDesignHelper

http://www.webdesignhelper.co.uk/

Provides free web templates that are easy to download and edit. Vertical and horizontal menus, graphics, fonts, icons, buttons, tutorials, and more are available.

Web Developer's Virtual Library

http://www.wdvl.com/

Readers of all levels, from beginners to long-time web developers will find something of interest at this site. This site has discussion forums, software reviews, tutorials, design and graphic tools, software downloads and job announcements.

WWW Computer Architecture Page

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Earch/www/

University of Wisconsin

Links to the latest information on computer architecture research. Follow the link to "Tools, Benchmarks, and Simulators" for links to system-specific tools and simulators that are available on-line.

WWW Virtual Library: Computing and Computer Science

http://vlib.org/Computing

Gateway site to topics on computing and computer science, with categories like artificial intelligence, digital rights management, and logic programming, to name a few.

Warriors Of the Net

http://www.warriorsofthe.net/ or Click here

Here you can find the movie Warriors of the net in several different languages. It is the prefect tool for introducing Internet to novice users. It helps the new student to visualize how the Net works.

UNIX Commands

http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~sps/unix/node1-f.html

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/unix_guide/index.html

http://www.sloppycode.net/nix/

http://www.rain.org/~mkummel/unix.html

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci826135,00.html

http://www.casualcode.com/unix_command_cheat_sheet.html

Various web sites that help using UNIX commands

Computer

Cheat Sheets

http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html -- Google Search

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/msl/webcheat.html -- Search Engines