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ASPLogin
How exactly does ASPLogin work?
ASPLogin uses an ActiveX server component to automatically send users to a login page, and then checks their authentication information and document permissions from a database. You may use either the ready-made user database provided with ASPLogin, or use any other ODBC datasource. ASPLogin also comes with a web-based administrator which can be used to setup users and groups in your ASPLogin database via a web browser. The ASPLogin Administrator helps you to manage your users, groups, e-mail, and options. 
On What Platforms will ASPLogin work? 
ASPLogin is designed to work on Microsoft Windows Servers. You may use a server which has a different operating system, however, the server must be able to handle ADO and OLEDB database connection methods and must also be able to handle .asp pages. 
Can ASPLogin secure directories in my web site? 
ASPLogin cannot secure directories on your site but can secure pages and applications. This gives you more control over specific authentication and management of your files. Directory access gives too many privileges to your users. With a few lines of code at the top of your ASP page you can secure your pages to users or groups. 
What type of e-mail features does ASPLogin have? 
ASPLogin can send out e-mails to your entire user base or just to users that you specify. The ASPLogin Administrator gives you the ability to send out mass e-mails by demographics. You can choose to send e-mails to everyone that has the name "mike" or even users that have only hotmail accounts. You may also query the entire user database and send e-mails to everyone. 
Is ASPLogin easy to integrate into my existing e-commerce application?
ASPLogin works very well with many e-commerce and e-business applications. ASPLogin's database is in Access so you can integrate it very easily into your existing solutions. SQL Server is also available as a database method. When users login to your password protected pages, their username and id number are carried throughout the site with them so you can create integrate user accounts into your existing applications. This feature is also great for user personalization. 
Can I customize ASPLogin? 
ASPLogin comes with customizable headers and footers for the dynamic signup pages and  login pages. You may also edit other standard response pages.
Does ASPLogin allow for site registration automatically? 
ASPLogin comes with dynamic user registration pages. In your ASPLogin Administrator you can choose the fields that you want and the signup page will automatically ask the questions for you. 
What about users that do not remember their password? 
ASPLogin does have a "forgot your password script" that will send an e-mail to a user if they cannot remember their password. 
Can ASPLogin allow me to activate and de-activate accounts? 
ASPLogin does just that. In the ASPLogin administrator you can choose to activate or deactivate user accounts. You also have the ability to specify an expiration date.
 
Cypherus
Right to Privacy Is Historical

"That the individual shall have full protection in person and property is a principle as old as the common law; but it has been found necessary from time to time to define anew the exact nature and extent of such protection."

Samuel Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, "The Right to Privacy", Harvard Law Review, 1890.

The date above is not a misprint. It was over 100 years ago that Louis D. Brandeis, who would later be appointed by Woodrow Wilson to the United States Supreme Court, and his contemporary Samuel Warren, published the seminal article in the Harvard Law Review containing this pithy and very contemporaneous warning. It was the first time that the idea of an individual's "right to privacy" had been articulated as such, and their bold stance still resonates today, bringing much to bear on the current privacy debate.

What must I do to be safe?
Look at the items in the list below. For each item you have done, give yourself a mental pat on the back. For the others just ask yourself, “What is the worst that could happen if I do nothing?” If the answer is financial ruin, loss of job, or family embarrassment, then you have identified your next action item.
  • Encrypt your business & financial records
  • Encrypt private emails, bids, business plans, designs, & proposals
  • Stop file “sharing” -- you may be dealing with hackers
  • Prevent your employees from viewing payroll or business data
  • Don’t write down important passwords on your bulletin board
  • Update and Scan for viruses Update and Scan for spyware
  • Install a firewall to stop intruders
  • Don’t trust incoming emails to be legitimate
  • Check your hardware for hardware dongles.
  • Maintain the updates for your applications
  • Keep password lists locked up or in a key manager
  • Maintain the updates from Windows
  • Shred your sensitive files and vital emails
  • Talk to employees and family members about security

What about Medical Professionals?

You have legal requirements for maintaining digital privacy of records on both storage and on transmission. Cypherus  is a complete digital privacy management package that uses powerful encryption algorithms –  to provide strong protection for medical professionals. Cypherus helps those in the medical, financial and business world comply with regulatory guidelines. Cypherus provides ease of use and management of the largest files plus emailing, storing, archiving, and shredding data files. Cypherus will hold all your passwords in its key manager for SAFE trouble-free maintenance. It uses department of defense strength shredding for worry-free clean-up of files.

How do hackers steal passwords by Social Engineering?
The Social Engineering aspect of computer security is the most important. The best encryption software will fail if the password is written on the whiteboard. The biggest bank account can be drained if someone gives the access code away on the phone to a "bank examiner."

Is it OK to put my password on my bulletin board?
Humans are often the weakest link in security. People write down passwords in crazy places. They put them on bulletin boards or tape them to the bottom of the keyboard or side of the computer. Right now, look at your watch. In one minute see how many user names, passwords, null passwords, or account numbers, you can find. Enter that number here. [ ] If the number is zero, congratulations. If not, you have a problem. Perhaps you should have a key manager. (software product that stores all your keys under one password) Perhaps you should read further.

Passwords. Make them good. Your phone number is not good. Neither is the word "password", "p", blank, your social security number or mother's maiden name. People who think their mother's maiden name is secure should check out a few genealogy sites. Your mother's full name is probably there for all to see.

Can people spy on me from the web?

Take a moment and look. It pays to be paranoid. Symptoms of spyware hardware and software include:
  1. Your phone bill includes expensive calls to 900 numbers that you never made—probably at an outrageous per-minute rate.
  2. You enter a search term in Internet Explorer's address bar and press Enter to start the search. Instead of your usual search site, an unfamiliar site handles the search.
  3. Your anti-spyware program or another protective program stops working correctly. It may warn you that certain necessary support files are missing, but if you restore the files they go missing again. It may appear to launch normally and then spontaneously shut down, or it may simply crash whenever you try to run it.
  4. A new item appears in your Favorites list without your putting it there. No matter how many times you delete it, the item always reappears later. Your system runs noticeably slower than it did before.
  5. At a time when you're not doing anything online, the send or receive lights on your dial-up or broadband modem blink just as wildly as when you're downloading a file or surfing the Web. Or the network/modem icon in your system tray flashes rapidly even when you're not using the connection.
  6. A search toolbar or other browser toolbar appears even though you didn't request or install it. Your attempts to remove it fail, or it comes back after removal.
  7. You get pop-up advertisements when your browser is not running or when your system is not even connected to the Internet, or you get pop-up ads that address you by name.
  8. When you start your browser, the home page has changed to something undesirable. You change it back manually, but before long you find that it has changed back again. And the final sign is: Everything appears to be normal.


Four essential parts of computer security

Most computer users have traditionally thought of security only in terms of firewalls and virus protection. This is a good start, but insufficient in today’s hostile environment. There are many aspects to securing your PCs but I would like to concentrate of four particularly important areas. Drawing a simple analogy to a chair, it is possible to sit on a one legged or two legged stool, but you will be in constant danger of falling over. A stool with three legs is better but you still can’t lean back in it and sleep. A chair with four legs has the makings of a comfortable recliner you can sleep in.

  1. Firewalls
  2. Virus Scanners
  3. Encryption
  4. Shredding

How many times have you heard about hackers stealing credit card files and medical records from banks and major corporations? If these companies spend millions on firewalls and virus software and still get hacked, what hope do you, the average user have? Can you do better? Yes.