Congratulations to this weeks geek Matt. This weeks questions are…
1. Who invented the first Firewall?
2. What does it mean to be whitelisted?
3. What worm was the first large scale attack on Internet security?
4. What type of traffic does a Firewall inspect?
5. What is a proxy?
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August 31, 2008 8:43 pm
1. Engineers from Digital Equipment Corporation
2. A list of accepted items or persons in a set. In this context, it could be a list of accepted applications or accepted IP-addressses.
3. The Morris Worm
4. Inbound and outbound network traffic
5. A proxy forwards requests from its clients to other servers. In this context, a proxy is sometimes used as a firewall, by only forwarding selected input packets.
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September 5, 2008 11:20 am
This was the end of the 2. quarter, right?