COMMENTARY--Enterprises must act quickly to head off the hacker attacks that will almost certainly result from the revelation that there are many more security holes in the Simple Network Management ...

ON FEB. 12, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) went public with a series of vulnerabilities in SNMP Version 1, the widely used standard for system management and monitoring. The announcement, ...

This is Part 8 concluding a series about IT fundamentals. These articles are based on excerpts from the Society of Broadcast Engineers CBNT/CBNE Study Topics webinar series, designed to assist those ...

Following on the heels of applying the patch Fred Rica style (see www.infosecnews.com/opinion/2002/04/17_04.htm), the SNMP vulnerability has loomed into view as the ...

When it comes to monitoring your network, and devices on your network, the 800-pound protocol gorilla is Simple Network Management Protocol, or SNMP. The name is, in my opinion, a passel of lies—the ...

One of the most useful aspects of having network access to a remote site is being able to look at the functionality of various remote devices simply by opening a Web browser and connecting to them ...

Researchers at Oulu University in Finland pretended to be hackers and issued commands to SNMP agents and management systems that a system doesn't usually expect. What they found was alarming. None of ...