Title: Tools protecting stakeholders against hackers and crackers: an insight review

Authors: Hossein Jahankani, Branko Antonijevic, Terry H. Walcott

Addresses: School of Computing and Technology, University of East London, UK. ' School of Computing and Technology, University of East London, UK. ' School of Computing and Technology, University of East London, UK

Abstract: The internet is considered as an effective tool that ensures communications globally. However, this has been hindered by hackers and crackers continuously. In doing so, a multitude of network-facilitated tools such as firewalls, virtual private networks (VPN) and a variety of antivirus software packages have been developed to deal with such predicaments. More often than not these facilitated tools are marketed as perfect solutions to the ever-culminating problems such as loss of data and privacy in the networked and world wide intercommunications. This paper aims to address these perceived problems.

Keywords: firewalls; hackers; network security; vulnerability analysis; electronic security; internet; virtual private networks; VPN; antivirus software; training; cracking; data matching; computer hacking.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESDF.2008.021459

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 2008 Vol.1 No.4, pp.423 - 429

Published online: 27 Nov 2008 *

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