Server Security: How To Prevent Socket Hijacking on Windows

June 6th, 2006 Overview Socket hijacking allows you to override a server socket opened on the same port by a different process. There are several good uses of socket hijacking like developing a port blocker application (poor man's firewall) and some bad uses too.

April 15th, 2006 In my experience much of the complexities a newcomer faces in the Java world is understanding extraneous stuff like handling exceptions or formatting data etc. Today I was requested for the nth time (n -> infinity) how to write a simple socket client and server (actually debug one).

June 6th, 2006 Often we need to create a (client) socket connection in java but we do not want to wait indefinitely for the connection to open. We need a way to timeout socket connections.

April 15th, 2006 Java / J2EE (Java EE) API development should now focus on adding ease of use methods to the API. Often such methods will be redundant.

May 23rd, 2006 I have been playing with the idea of a Java Firewall. So far I have implemented a fully functional port blocker using port hijacking.

September 19th, 2009 After configuring services on the network in Linux system, it's important for you to keep tabs on the ports that are actually listening on the system's network interfaces. This is all more important because open ports are evidence of an intrusion.

January 16th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - A computer virus attack that has infected more than 6.5 million Windows PCs this week is one of the worst in years, internet security firm F-Secure said Friday. In total the worm, which is known as Downadup or Conficker, has infected nearly nine million PCs since its first version was unleashed two years ago.

April 27th, 2009 Suppose you want to change and enable the remote access to MySQL DB on your linux server (Debian). By default, you don't get such privileges so you will have to work your way through this.

October 8th, 2008 In my previous article I have already discussed about how to use the Online Feed Aggregators to view the password protected Feed with username and password. Now the next thing that should come to your mind is how do they actually fair in maintaining the security of your account.

August 26th, 2007 Java is used either for long running server side applications / application servers or for running short scripts. Let's look at how you can speed-up both these type of applications.

March 13th, 2009 Okay letting automatic updates wasn't enough. When they finish, you are prompted to restart your computer.

April 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft India today announced that it has expanded its industry-leading Windows Server family of operating systems with the launch of Windows Server 2008 Foundation.Built for businesses with 15 or fewer users - Windows Server 2008 Foundation delivers the reliability, security and manageability of the Windows Server platform - at a price affordable and within reach of small businesses. Now available in 40 countries including India, it will empower small businesses with the ability to run business applications and databases, host websites and will also offers basic server functionality such as file and print sharing and remote access.

August 12th, 2009 Microsoft has released nine patches to fix 19 security vulnerabilities affecting multiple Windows systems. The patches would address multiple critical ActiveX and Windows Media File loop holes that could invite hackers malicious attacks.

November 23rd, 2004 Contents

• NailGun Introduction
• Rationale for Porting
• Compiler choice: MinGW versus CygWin
• Mini Porting guide from Linux to Windows (networking focussed)
• Testing
• Code & Executable Download
• Suggestions for improving NailGun

October 23rd, 2006 .htaccess is a web server directive file populalrly used in Apache Web Server in Linux / Unix environment. In windows environment there is a simple way to enable and use .htaccess.