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Security RSS FeedsMonitor Your Network With GroundWork Monitor Community Edition - LinuxSecurity.com: GroundWork Monitor Community Edition is a free edition of GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, a commercial open source network monitoring solution geared toward large enterprise customers. Free editions often have some limited functionality, but GroundWork Monitor Community Edition offers the visibility a small- to medium-sized network needs by harnessing the power of popular tools such as Nagios, MRTG, NeDi, Ganglia, Nmap, MySQL, and RRDtool. Have you ever used an open source network monitoring tool to keep tabs on your network devices? Check out this free open source application which allows you to integrate popular network tools into a comprehensive network monitoring system. ...Feed Source: www.linuxsecurity.com Billy Hoffman On AJAX Security and Browser Attacks - LinuxSecurity.com: As more and more computing moves to the Web, Web application security has become a high priority -- at least for users. In this interview, Executive Editor Dennis Fisher talks to Billy Hoffman, manager of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Web Security Research Group, about the security features in Google Chrome, the lack of security training for Web developers and how JavaScript has become the favored tool of attackers. This article is an interview with Billy Hoffman, manager of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Web Security Research Group. Which he talks about how JavaScript has become the favored tool of attackers.... Firefox Extension Blocks Dangerous Web attack - LinuxSecurity.com: A popular free security tool for the Firefox browser has been upgraded to block one of the most dangerous and troubling security problems facing the Web today. NoScript is a small application that integrates into Firefox. It blocks scripts in programming languages such as JavaScript and Java from executing on untrusted Web pages. The scripts could be used to launch an attack on a PC. There are tons of security extensions for Firefox, this article looks at one that helps block dangerous web pages. What is your favorite Firefox security plug-in?... Fwknop - Port Knocking Tool with Single Packet Authorization - LinuxSecurity.com: Port Knocking came about in around 2003, but it has various weaknesses. There are plenty of implentations though (some quite advanced). Most of the problems are fixed however by fwknop! fwknop stands for the "FireWall KNock OPerator", and implements an authorization scheme called Single Packet Authorization (SPA). This method of authorization is based around a default-drop packet filter (fwknop supports both iptables on Linux systems and ipfw on FreeBSD and Mac OS X systems) and libpcap. Have you ever tested the port knocking software called "FireWall KNock OPerator? The interesting feature of it is that it only needs a single packet to get information on a host. ... EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.21 Now Available - LinuxSecurity.com: Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.21 (Version 3.0, Release 21). This release includes many updated packages and bug fixes and some feature enhancements to the EnGarde Secure Linux Installer and the SELinux policy. In distribution since 2001, EnGarde Secure Community was one of the very first security platforms developed entirely from open source, and has been engineered from the ground-up to provide users and organizations with complete, secure Web functionality, DNS, database, e-mail security and even e-commerce.... NSA Shows The Way To Develop Secure Systems - LinuxSecurity.com: The Tokeneer project was commissioned by the NSA from Praxis High Integrity Systems as a demonstrator of high-assurance software engineering. Developed using Praxis' Correctness by Construction (CbyC) methodology it uses the SPARK Ada language and AdaCore's GNAT Pro environment. The project has demonstrated how to meet or exceed Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 5 in the Common Criteria thus demonstrating a path towards the highest levels of security assurance. Have you heard the NSA has released their security research project called Tokeneer as open source? I found interesting about the project is that it uses the SPARK Ada programming language. What do you think about this project?... RedHat: Important: cups security update - LinuxSecurity.com: Updated cups packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the SGI image format decoding routines used by the CUPS image converting filter "imagetops". An attacker could create a malicious SGI image file that could, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the "lp" user if the file was printed.... Fedora 9 Update: postfix-2.5.5-1.fc9 - LinuxSecurity.com: New upstream patch level version 2.5.5, including multiple security fixes detailed in upstream announcements: http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080814.html http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080902.html... Fedora 8 Update: postfix-2.5.5-1.fc8 - LinuxSecurity.com: New upstream patch level version 2.5.5, including multiple security fixes detailed in upstream announcements: http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080814.html http://www.postfix.org/announcements/20080902.html... Gentoo: Portage Untrusted search path local root vulnerability - LinuxSecurity.com: A search path vulnerability in Portage allows local attackers to execute commands with root privileges if emerge is called from untrusted directories.... Never Installed a Firewall on Ubuntu? Try Firestarter - LinuxSecurity.com: When I typed on Google "Do I really need a firewall?" 695,000 results came across. And I'm pretty sure they must be saying "Hell yeah!". In my opinion, no one would ever recommend anyone to sit naked on the internet keeping in mind the insecurity internet carries these days, unless you really know what you are doing. Read on for more information on Firestarter. ... Review: Hacking Exposed Linux, Third Edition - LinuxSecurity.com: "Hacking Exposed Linux" by ISECOM (Institute for Security and Open Methodologies) is a guide to help you secure your Linux environment. This book does not only help improve your security it looks at why you should. It does this by showing examples of real attacks and rates the importance of protecting yourself from being a victim of each type of attack. ... IBM Business Transformation - IBM's Business Transformation. Business Week
writes about IBM's focus on business transformation services: "BM, with
its legions of PhDs and closets full of patents, is not built to duke
it out with the likes of Dell. Palmisano's strategy promises a neat
escape. Instead of battling in cutthroat markets, he takes advantage of
all the low-cost technology by packaging it, augmenting it with
sophisticated hardware and software, and selling it to customers in a
slew of what he calls business transformation services. That way IBM
rides atop the commodity wave -- and avoids drowning in it." [E M E R G I C . o r g]... MSNBC: "HERE COME THE VLOGS - MSNBC: "HERE COME THE VLOGS".
MSNBC: Ready for your close-up? Here come the vlogs is a great snapshot of videoblogging by Michael Rogers. He namechecks all our favorites including Rocketboom, Ryanne, Jay, Human Dog, Steve Garfield, and Dylan. He also mentions the tools making it easier to find videoblogs, such as ANT and ... Do The VoIP Math. - Do The VoIP Math.
Russell Shaw does the math and shows how VoIP is cheaper than a cell
phone only.I agree. Which is why I think the wireless companies need to
be in the VoIP business and fast . [VoIP Watch]... Blog, Vlog, Podcast, Mobcas - Blog, Vlog, Podcast, Mobcast. So many new words, so little time.
Blog (web log), Vlog (video web log), Podcasting (including audio in
your RSS (really simple syndication) feed for download into an Apple
iPod or other MP3 player) and Mobcasting (mobile podcasting) an Andy Carvin
acronym which posits the use of smart phones to create podcasts -- are
all relatively new words that represent one extremely big idea --
unfettered plebeian access to the fifth estate.
Until a few years ago, governments (secular or non) had almost
complete control of information. That made (and continues to make)
information a form of currency -- like the military and other stores of
economic value. These "new words" are much more powerful than the
technologies they represent, they speak a new language of information
and, to be sure, currency.
The value you will place on this information is in direct
proportion to the use you have for it. Most people won't care about the
ranti...
Small telecom carriers focus on providing choices. - Small telecom carriers focus on providing choices.
WASHINGTON - As traditional competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs)
retool to keep up with U.S. regulations and battle the huge regional
Bells, a range of new business models are emerging. [InfoWorld: Top News]... Ten To Watch in Mobile Content - Ten To Watch in Mobile Content. This is not a definitive list, just
a list of smart young blood in the mobile content sector. Notice that
except for one, none of them are CEOs (yet), but you’ll hear a lot
from and about them in the next few years (that was the criteria). Just
a way of recognizing the people in the second wave of mobile content
(in no particular order):
» Greg Clayman, Vice President, Wireless Strategy and Operations, MTV Networks
» Rio Caraeff, mobile head at Universal Music
» Thomas Ryan, Senior VP, Mobile Development, EMI Music
» ...
Telesym Podcast: the Future of VoWLAN. - Telesym Podcast: the Future of VoWLAN.
If you're interested in where Voice over IP over WLAN is heading in the
enterprise, listen to this interview with Telesym: I met over in
Bellevue, Wash., today with Telesym, a firm that extends an
enterprise-based phone exchange (PBX) system into laptops, handhelds,
and "scanners": bar-code devices used in retail and logistics by store
and floor personnel. I spoke with Mike Houston, Telesym's director of
Marketing, Ken Myer, senior VP of sales and marketing, and Jennifer
Gehrt, a founding partner at Communiqué Public Relations about
Telesym's position in the market, but more largely about the future of
VoWLAN. (Ken had to leave for a meeting, so I spoke primarily with Mike
in this podcast). You'll hear at the outset of the recording after my
introduction a conversation we had using Telesym technology: I was on a
USB headset connected to a Telesym client running under Mac OS X; Mike
w... CLEC New Business Model - CLECs search for new business models.
WASHINGTON - Recent months have been tough for competitive local
exchange carriers (CLECs), as their allies get gobbled up by
competitors and the government dismantles network-sharing regulations.
But CLECs say they will survive by adopting new business models and
focusing on customer relations. [InfoWorld: Top News]... Podcasting The Night Away. Forbes: - Podcasting The Night Away. Forbes:
"For now, Podcasting is no threat to radio as we know it. But pay
attention to it. It may not always be called Podcasting, and it may not
always be free in the way it is now, but as we've seen with MP3s, these
things sometimes have a funny way of taking on a life of their own." [Adam Curry's Weblog]...
New Free VoIP, Video & P2P IM Client using Open Standards. - New Free VoIP, Video & P2P IM Client using Open Standards. ineen
is new P2P IM software with VoIP and Video that's easy and free to use.
The client was built using Xten's eyeBeam SDK and makes use of SIMPLE
for P2P IM and Presence. VoIP is supported by SIP and the Video media
is H.263[+]. You can use ineen to call over other networks as well,
including: Free World Dialup, SIPphone, & iptel.org.
Xten will be demonstrating ineen at VON next week. [SIPthat.com]... Searching for weather, by web or phone - Searching for weather, by web or phone
As a kid, I would stare for hours at repetitious weather reports on TV.
Boring, you say? Not to me - I love weather. And since I've worked
here, I've wondered why Google doesn't do weather. It seemed like a
perfect 20% project
for me, so now I'm pleased to report that you can get
current conditions and a forecast
by typing [weather Chicago], or whatever your U.S. location is (zipcodes are also fair game). If you prefer, use
Google SMS
to send a text message to the U.S. five digit shortcode 46645 (GOOGL on
most mobile phones) followed by your meteorological query.
Ben Sigelman
Sof... VON 2005 - Spring 2005 VON: In the News Today. Investors Business Daily - March 7th: Internet Telephone Service Buzz Comes Calling At Big Trade Show
Mercury News - March 6th: Phone calls destined to be sent like e-mail, as packets of data (requires subscription)
[The Jeff Pulver Blog]... SODA - SODA. A month
or so ago, I was reading a Gartner handout for a conference, and came
across an acronym they invented- SODA[1]. SODA (Service-Oriented
Development of Applications), as Gartner defines it, consists of the
following areas: []... Yahoo Web Service API - Yahoo Web Service API.
Yahoo joins the growing number of web sites exposing their API as Web
Services. Their API is available from Yahoo Developer Network . []... Copyright © 2008, The Veggie Lady - Free Organic Gardening Advice. All Rights Reserved. |