Martindale's The Reference Desk: Internet

Computer/Internet Security Alerts, Advisories, Spam, Traffic, etc.:

"Internet Traffic Report WW (Opnix)" "CIDR Reports" "Cymru Network Monitoring"
"Secunia Security Advisories"
"Internet Storm Center (SANS Institute)"
"Zone-H - Most Recent Digital Attacks, Digital Attacks Archive, etc."
"Internet Terrorism (SITE Intelligence Group)"
"SecurityFocus"
"VOIPSA's VOIP Security Alerts"
"HackerWatch"
"McAfee - Latest Virus, Malware, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs), Spam Alerts"
"French Security Incident Response Team (English & French)"
"Viruslist - Kaspersky Labs Security Advisories (English & Russian)"
"CIAC" "F-Secure" "US-CERT" "NISCC (UK Gov CERT)"
"Sandia - The Center for SCADA Security - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)"
"Control Systems Security Program (CSSP) for Distributed Control Systems (DCS)"
"Digital Bond - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) BLOG"

"Attrition's Stolen Names, Social Security Numbers, etc. Database - Updated Daily"
"Privacy Rights' Stolen Names, Social Security Numbers, etc. Database - Updated Daily"
"FTC's Identity Theft Site"

"Websense Security Labs Phishing and Crimeware Map"
"Websense Security Labs Phishing Alert"
"Anti-Phishing Working Group: Phishing & Pharming Alerts"

"E-mail Abuse Reports: Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG)"

"JavaScrip Kit's Comprehensive guide to .htaccess (stop undesired spiders and crawlers)"

"HoneyBlog: deals with IT-security related stuff and honeypots, honeynets, malware, bots, botnets"

"Project Honey Pot: gathers statistics on Internet robots and the spammers who sometimes use them to steal email addresses, etc."

"Packet Storm Security's Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Tools & Alerts"
"Cisco's Strategies to Protect Against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks"
"Infosyssec's Denial of Service Attacks - DDoS, SMURF, FRAGGLE, TRINOO"
"Introduction to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks"

"Java Tester" "DShield/Cracker Activity/Are You Cracked"
"IIS's Information Security (infosec) and Anti-Hacker Information Database"
"Ben Edelman's - Spying on Spyware"

"VirusTotal's Free Online URL Virus & Malwares Scan"

"BitDefender's Free PC Virus Scanner"
"F-Secure's Free PC Virus Scanner"
"Mcafee's Free PC Virus Scanner"
"Kaspersky's Free PC Virus & Spyware Scanner"
"Panda Software's Free PC Virus & Spyware Scanner"
"Secunia's Free PC Virus & Spyware Inspector"
"Spybot-S&D Free PC Virus & Spyware Scanner"
"Symantec's Free PC Virus & Spyware Scanner"
"Trend Micro's Free PC Virus & Spyware Scanner"
"ClamXav's Free MAC Virus Scanner"

"McAfee's Site Advisor (Check Sites for Spyware, Malware, etc.)"
"Exploit Prevention Labs' Link Scanner (Check Sites for Spyware, Malware, etc.)"

"SANS Top 20 Vulnerabilites"
"Lenny Zeltser's Information Security Search"
"Phauna (RATs, Trojan Horses, Virus, Worms, Hostile Applets)"

"Norman's On-Line SandBox Scanning Service for Malware (i.e. viruses, internet worms, trojans, etc.)"
"SANS Ouch - by-weekly Report on Identity Theft/Attacks on Computer Users"

"Cisco Security Advisories"

"Amaya Security Alerts" "AOL Browser Security Alerts" "Avant Security Alerts"
"Browzar Security Alerts"
"Camino, Firefox, Mozilla & Thunderbird Security Alerts"
"Flock Security Alerts" "iCab Security Alerts" "IE Security Alerts"
"Maxthon Security Alerts" "Netscape Security Alerts"
"OmniWeb Security Alerts" "Opera Security Alerts"
"Series 60 Browser for Smartphones Alerts"
"Shiira Security Alerts" "Safari/Apple Security Alerts"

"eBay Security Alerts" "Souq Security Alerts"

"NetNewsWire RSS Web News Reader Security Alerts"
"Listgarden RSS Feed Generator Security Alerts"
"Sourceforge RSS Viewer Security Alerts"
"FreedDemon RSS Feed Reader/RSS Aggregator Security Alerts"
"IntraVnews Feed Reader & RSS Aggregator Security Alerts"

"Trend Micro - World Computer Virus Map"

"Aladdin - Latest Virus Alerts"
"Clam Antivirus - Latest Virus Alerts"
"Sophos - Latest Viruses"
"Symantec/Norton - Virus Alerts"

"Computer Associates Vulnerability Alerts"

Computer Security Standards:

"Computer Security (CSRC, NIST)"

"DNSSEC - DNS Security Extensions Securing the Domain Name System"

"Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC, NIST)"
"National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) - U.S."

SSL Certificates - Internet Electronic Certification/Credentials

"SSL Certificates - VeriSign" "SSL Certificates - GlobalSign" "SSL Certificates - IPS (Spain)" "SSL Certificates - Thawte"

News & Information:

"Association for Computing Machinery Pub's (Queue; Ubiquity; TechNews; eLearn; ACM Journals; etc."

"CNET News" "Computerworld" "Compound Semiconductor" "CompTIA" "Crypto-Gram" "DARPA" "DTIC" "ExtremeTech"
"Federal Computer" "Fibers: Optical Communications" "Geek" "IDC IT News"

"IBM Technical Papers" "MacFixit" "Nantechnology (IOP)" "Nanotechnology (NSTI)"
"NCO/IT R&D" "Nuclear Threat Initiative" "Optics & Photonics"
"PC Magazine" "Pew Internet Research"

"Quantiki" "Rand Corp." "RFID" "Supercomputers" "Technology Review" "The Economist" "WebmasterWorld News"

Journals & e-prints:

"Computer Science e-Prints"

"Computation & Language e-Prints" "Computational Physics e-Prints" "Data Analysis, Statistic & Probability e-Prints"

"Mathematics e-Prints (arXiv.org)" "Mathematics e-Prints (U.C. Davis arXiv)" "Theory of Cryptography Library" "Quantum Algebra e-Prints "Quantum Physics e-Prints"

"American Mathematical Society Journals"

"IEEE Journals" "Intel Technology Journal" "Journal of Cryptology" "Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics" "SIAM Journals" "Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds"

Internet/Cyberinfrastructure Dictionaries:

"Cisco Systems' Internetworking Technology"
"CMP Media's Tech Encyclopedia"
"Computer Currents' Computer Dictionary"
"Crypto AG's Crypto & Encryption Glossary"

"Geek.com's Technology Glossary"
"Networking Dictionary"
"Mathematical Programming Glossary"

"Howe's Dictionary of Computing"
"IIS's Information Security (infosec) and Anti-Hacker Information"
"Latronix's Thin Server Glossary"

"Ritter's Crypto Glossary and Dictionary of Technical Cryptography"
"Sematech's Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry Dictionary"

"Townsend & Taphouse's Dictionary of Information Security"

"Webopedia"
"What Is.com's Computer/Internet Dictionary"

Cyberspace:

"IPv6 Map of Cyberspace (Lumeta)" "IPv6 Map of Cyberspace (CAIDA)"
"Atlas of Cyberspace" "Internet Society"

Test Internet Connection, Performance & Run Traceroutes:

"Speed Test: PC Pitstop Internet Connection Center"
"Test my Speed (McAfee)" "Internet Speet Test (Visualware)" "Test my Speed (CNET)"

"hq42 Networking Tools: Port Scanner, Ping, Trace Route, Test Web Server, Test FTP Server, etc."
"Speed Tests, Port-Scan Security Analysis, TCP/UDP port scan, etc. (DSLReports)"
"Performance Test (TOAST)"

"Visual Route's Trace URL" "Visual Route's Trace Email"
"I.P. Address & Trace from sites World Wide"

Networking & Tools:

"National Coordination Office (NCO/IT R&D)"

"Cisco's Packet Magazine"
"Cisco's Internetwork Design Guide"
"Cisco's Internetwork Troubleshooting Guide"

"IC & Components"
"DSL Today" "Spurgeon's Ethernet Guide"

"IPv6 Portal" "IPv6 Forum" "SixXS - IPv6 Deployment & Tunnel Broker"

"Bluetooth" "Wi-Fi Alliance" "ZigBee Alliance"

"DOE UltraScience Net" "Defense Information System Agency"

"National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)"
"WebCT-HPC (High-Performance Computing Cluster) Online Courses"

"Cluster Research Lab (LANL)"

"Open Grid Forum" "Teragrid"
"Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe (EGEE)
"The Globus Project" "The Grid Physics Network"
"World Wide Consortium for the Grid, W2COG"

"CAIDA's Network Measurement, Taxonomy Tools"
"Insecure.org's Network Security Tools"
"ITtoolbox Networking Knowledge Base"
"John December's Internet Tools Summary"
"NetFlow Tools - Swiss Education & Research Network (SWITCH)"
"Network Monitoring Tools (SLAC)"
"Network Security Toolkit"

"Network Time and Frequency Server Software (NIST)"
"Network & Satellite Time Service (U.S. Naval Observatory)"
"Public NTP Time Servers (NTP)"

Network Warfare, Cyberwar, Information War, Network Centric Warfare (NCW):

"Dupuy Institute - Tactical Numerical Deterministic Model (TNDM)"

"Terrorist Capabilities for Cyberattack - CRS - 2007"
"Cyber Craft - Cyber-Craft - CyberCraft: Network Centric Warfare, U.S. Air Force, 2006"
"Swarming & The Future of Conflict - Rand Corporation - 2005"
"The Effects of Network-Centric Operations on Combat Outcomes - Rand Corporation - 2005"
"Alternative Futures and Army Force Planning - Rand Corporation - 2005"
"Battlefield of the Future- Air & Space Power Chronicles - USAF, DoD"
"Networks & Netwars - Rand Corporation - 2003"

Internet Access Providers:

"Internet Access Providers Meta-List" "Internet Service Providers"

Internet Economy & Statistics:

"Internet Users Worldwide (Comscore)"
"Hitwise US Data Center: Monthly Online Usage and Search Behavior"
"ClickZ: Internet Usage Statistics"

"Top 500 Web Sites (Alexa)" "DSL Reports" "VoIP Rankings History"

"How Much Information? - School of Information, UC Berkeley"
"IAB: Internet Advertising"
"IDC: IT Global Intelligence"
"Pew Internet & American Life Project"
"State Technology & Science Index - Milken Institute"
"The Economist Intelligence Unit"

Internet Fraud:

"FTC's Identity Theft Site"
"Internet Fraud Complaint Center - FBI & DOJ"
"SEC Center for Complaints and Enforcement"

Internet Whois:

"Domain Dossier's WhoIs" "Robtex WhoIs"
"Overlay Anycast Service InfraStructure: Enter IP address and it shows location on map"
"hq42's WhoIs" "Geek's WhoIs" "Compete WhoIs"
"Cymru IP to ASN Lookup Page"
"ARIN: North America Whois" "LACNIC: Latin America Whois"
"APNIC: Asia & Pacific Whois"
"RIPE: Europe Whois" "AfriNIC: Africa Whois"
"Whois.edu (U.S.)" "Whois.org (U.S.)"
"Register.com (Registrant, Admin. Contact etc.)"

Internet - What Type of Software is the Server Using?:

"Netcraft: What's that Site Running?"

"Netcraft: OS, Web Server and Hosting History for ?"

Internet Server Software:

"WebCompare"

Internet Statistics Software "Log Analysis Tools":

"Google Analytics" "Analog" "OpenWebScope" "Website Reporter" "Click Track" "DeepMetrix" "Surfstats" "Unica Web Analytics" "WebTrends"

Internet Web Hosting:

"TopHosts" "Web Host Directory" "Web Hosting-CNET"

Internet Protocol IPv6:

"The IPv6 Portal" "IPv6 Forum" "SixXS" "6DISS"

Internet Registration & Domain Names:

"ICANN" "IANA" "Asia Network (APNIC)" "IP Européens (RIPE NCC)"
"Latin American & Caribbean (LACNIC)"
"American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)"
"Protocol Numbers & Assignment Services (PPP Number Assignments etc.)"
Accredited Name Registration for 'COM', 'ORG' & 'NET'

"ICANN - List of Registrars"

Internet Domain Name Disputes:

"Domain Name Disputes & Decisions: Cases & Decisions - WIPO"

Internet Config. & Standards:

"Internet Architecture Board (IAB)" "Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF)"
"Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)" "OASIS" "PCI-SIG" "W3C"

Apache, Linux, Free Word Processors, Spreadsheets, etc. - Open Source:

"IBM Lotus Symphony (Free Word Processor, Spreadsheet, etc.) (Windows, Linux)"
"NeoOffice (Free Word Processing, Spreadsheet, etc.) (Mac OS X)"
"OpenOffice (Free Word Processor, Spreadsheet, etc.) (Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux PPC, FreeBSD)"

"Open Source Initiative (OSI)"
"The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) License" "The MIT License"

"Apache" "Debian" "Mozilla (Firefox, Camino, Thunderbird, etc.)"
"OpenBSD" "OpenSSH"
"Apple Open Source" "JBoss"

"Java Community Process" "Java, Jini, RMI, J2SE, JXTA, JSLEE, OSS, etc. (SUN)"

"Liberty Alliance Project"

"Linux (IBM)" "Linux (REDHAT)" "Linux Today" "Linux Foundation"

"OWASP" "Security-Enhanced Linux - SELinux (NSA)"

"Nvu: Web Authoring System, Linux, Mac & Windows"

"Novell's Mono Project" "Ruby on Rails" "SendMail"
"SourceForge" "SourceForce Allcommerce" "SpamAssassin" "W3C" "X.org" "Zimbra"

Audio:

"Apple's iTunes" "Classical Archives" "Net Audio" "RealPlayer"

Base Conversion:

"Electrical & Computer Engineering Calculators: Base Conversion"

Computer - Quantum Computers & Computation:

"Quantum Compuation (QUANTIKI - QUBIT)" "Quantum Computation: Physics 219, (CALTECH)" "Quantum Algorithms Research Group, (UMBC)"

Computer Graphics:

"Electrical & Computer Engineering Calculators: Computer Graphics"

Computer Anti-Virus Software:

"Aladdin" "Clam Antivirus" "McAfee" "Sophos" "Symantec/Norton" "Trend Micro"

Digital Cameras, Imaging & Scanning:

"Digital Camera Reveiws & Techniques" "Kodak Digital Learning Center"

Encryption & Cryptography:

"Crypto AG's Crypto & Encryption Glossary"
"Ritter's Crypto Glossary and Dictionary of Technical Cryptography"

"Quantiki - News" "Crypto-Gram - News"
"Quantum Cryptography with Entangled Photons - News"

"International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)"
"Cryptography Research, Inc." "RSA Labs (RSA Security)"

"Cryptography and Security e-Prints" "Quantum Physics e-Prints" "Journal of Cryptology"

"Cryptographic & Encryption Standards Testing (CSRC, NIST)"
"Secure Hash Algorithms: SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512."

"Cisco Systems: An Introduction to IP Security Encryption"

"Ciphers by Ritter"
"Johnson's Cryptography & Encryption"
"SSH Communications Security: Cryptography A-Z"

"Johnson's Steganography & Digitial Watermark"
"Petitcolas' Steganography & Digitial Watermark"

"Schneier's The Blowfish Encryption Algorithm"

"Quantum Cryptography: NAVAJO (MagiQ Technologies)"

Hardware & Build Your Own PC:

"Michael Karbo's A Complete Illustrated Guide to the PC Hardware"
"Chip Dir" "Chip Docs" "IC & Components" "IC Master"

HTML, C & C++, CGI & Perl, Programming, Decoders, Web Page Design, etc.:

"The Unicode Character Code Charts By Script for all Languages"
"Eesti Keele Instituut's Character Sets for Languages, Numbers, etc."
"Alan Wood's Unicode Resources & Character Entities"
"Sweeting's Extended HTML Entity Chart"

"Programmers Heaven" "FunctionX'"

"C#" "CGI & Perl" "Java" "PHP" "PHP-Nuke" "John December's UNIX" "Freshmeat's UNIX"

"HTML (W3C)" "MATHML (W3C)" "XHTML, XML, SVG, etc. (W3C)"

"Web Design Tools Directory"
"First Page - HTML Web Page Design"
"Creating Online's Free HTML Web Page Maker Online Generator (IE Only)"
"The Web Hut's Free Online Web Tools & Code Generators"

"Typetester* Fonts & Colors"
"Adobe Colors" "HOLO HSV Color Pickers" "4096 Color Wheel"
"Well Styled's Color Wheel" "John December's Color Codes"
"Fonts.com's Fonts" "Fonts500's Fonts-Top 500"

"FrameShop" "TableMaker"

IT Certification & Testing Demos:

"SANS Coding Assesment and Certification Exams for Programmers"
"Apple Certification"
"Cisco Career Certification"
"Cisco Networking Academy Program"
"Dell Certification"
"DoD Information Technology Security Certification & Accreditation"
"DRI International Certification"
"IBM Professional Certification Program"
"Linux Professional Institute Certification Program"
"Microsoft Certification"
"NSA Information Security (INFOSEC) Certification via CNSS"
"Oracle Certification Program"
"Red Hat Certified Engineer"
"SAP Certification Program"
"Sun Education Services & Certification"

Java:

"Java Calculators, Simulations, etc."
"Java (SUN)" "Java (IBM)" "Java (JBOSS)" "Java World"

Live TV Broadcast:

"Apple's iTunes" "CBS" "Like Television" "C-SPAN-TV"

"Net Audio: TV, Radio, etc."

"TV Stations Online WW (Lyngemark)"

Some Examples of Online TV Stations

"Arabic TV - Al Jazeera" "Brazil" "China - CCTV" "France" "Georgia"
"Germany" "Hong Kong" "Iceland" "Italy" "Japan" "Mexico" "Quatar"
"Russia" "Saudi Arabia" "Spain" "Switzerland" "Turkey"
"U.K. - BBC" "U.K. - ITN"

Radio Stations Online:

"Radio-Locator (MIT - Radio Stations on the Internet)"

Live Video:

"Earthcam" "Live-Free Webcams" "Railroad Cams WW"
"Ski Cams WW" "VolcanoCams" "Webcam List"

Movie Trailers:

"Trailers & Videos/Movies - Hollywood.com" "Trailers & Videos/Movies - Apple"

Multimedia Games:

"EA Games" "Yahoo Games" "Games (Happypuppy)"

Privacy, Security, Spam, Web Bug's, Remove Spyware, Popups, etc.:

"CDT" "CIS" "EFF" "EPIC" "FTC" "Privacy Foundation" "SANS"

"Cryptome" "Def Con" "Wired"

"Attrition" "CD Freaks" "New Order"
"SecurityFocus" "Security Geeks" "SlashDot" "Source Forge" "VX Heavens"

"Anonymizer" "Freenet" "Junkbusters"

"BotSpot" "WebRobots"

"Ad-Aware Anti-Spyware" "Microsoft AntiSpywares"

"Spybot: Scan your PC for Spyware"

"Spy Sweeper - Anti-Spyware: Detecting, Removing and Blocking Spyware"

"Where does spam come from? - Spamhous"

"The Spamdemic Map - Clueless Mailers" "iHateSpam & iHatePopups"

"Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC)"

"Phishing attacks - Anti-Phishing.org"

"Cookies" "GUIDs" "Web Bug's, clear GIFs, 1-by-1 GIFs, invisible GIFs..."

Software/Shareware:

"Download.com" "Galt Shareware" "ShareWare" "TuCows" "VersionTracker" "ZDNet"

Virtual Reality (VRML), Extensible 3D (X3D), XMSF, etc.:

"Web3D - X3D, VRML, "

FOR A "SEARCH" ON

THE WW ON ANY SUBJECT

"Search Engine Watch: Ratings, Reviews, Resources, etc."

"Search Engines World Wide"

"A9.com" "All The Web" "Alta Vista" "AOL" "Ask Jeeves" "Baidu" "Beaucoup" "BotSpot" "Business.com" "Energy Citations" "Fast" "Go2Net" "Google" "Hotbot"

"Infotrieve" "Live Search (Microsoft)" "Lycos" "Mamma" "MSN" "MultiCrawl" "My Live Search" "Opinion Pages WW" "ProFusion" "Search.com - CNET" "Scirus" "Snap" "WWW Virtual Library" "Wisenut" "Vivisimo" or "Yahoo"

"Searchable Public Record Databases - U.S."
"Searchable Public Record Databases - Canada"
"Searchable Public Record Databases - Australia"
"Searchable Public Record Databases - World Wide"

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