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Learn the ABCs of Online Security Threats

Tech Soup

By instructing computers in a botnet to try and load and reload a website repeatedly, attackers can effectively knock a website offline temporarily. XSS — Cross-Site Scripting Attack. Cross-site scripting — or "XSS" for short — is something of a nebulous concept. Sneaky, sneaky.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a powerpoint that Cheryl Hanback and I used to lead an N-TEN Affnity Group of technology trainers at last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference. After seeing Nancy White's experiment and discovering Amit Agarwal's excellent instructions for. I'm wondering if it took a frustratingly long time for you to download? -My

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. Other platforms like Java and Flash could end up being (once again?) But there is an even more basic, fundamental problem that information technology has only recently begun to tackle: passwords. the culprits. " 'Nuff said.