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Preventing the Hack Attack

Overview As the number of residential broadband Internet access subscribers grows, numerous stories appear about hacker attacks in cable and DSL networks. Usually, hacker attacks are aimed at ISPs or corporate networks, but residential users are also at risk. Such hackers are typically mischievous rather than malicious and just as happy to slow down network performance as to gain access to confidential files.

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Publisher	InfoPac International	File Format	HTML
Date Published	January 2007	Downloads	7
Format	White Papers
Topics	Broadband, TCP - IP, Anti-Hacking, Firewalls

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