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Monday, August 11th, 2008Photographer Thomas Hawk was thrown out of the
10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud
Thursday, July 31st, 2008from gigaom…. To summarise,
It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re [...]
Finding the name behind the gmail address
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008From the SecuriTeam blog
You can get hold of the first name / last name behind a gmail / google account. There’s a bug / feature in the google ecosphere that displays the first / last name associated with an account when you share a google calendar with that account.
A different way of getting [...]
Netlimiter Monitor application and network monitor
Monday, July 14th, 2008Netlimiter
2 Monitor displays all open processes and
applications on the system, showing incoming and outgoing
bandwidth along with ports, IP addresses and process numbers. A useful extra is the history function which applications connected to the Internet before on your system - you can use this to check whether an application is new to the list.
There’s [...]
Remove Hidden Data tool for Office 2003 and Office XP
Monday, July 14th, 2008MS Word documents contain hidden meta data that contain information about
the author of the document. It can also contain additional information
like comments and remarks, previous authors or revisions. While that is
normally not a problem for the author because most recipients do not
care or know that those information are available it can become a
problem in some [...]
BackTrack: A penetration testers toolset
Monday, July 7th, 2008BackTrack is a bootable Linux CD that is the swiss-army knife of computer hacking tools. Need to crack a password or break into a wifi connection? Backtrack has the tools already configured and ready to go.
As a matter of fact, with over 250 tools to choose from, your problem will be finding the right [...]
Windows Inspection Tool Set
Monday, July 7th, 2008Windows Inspection Tool Set is an open source utility that provides you with a series of tools for inspecting your Windows operating system. This includes information about your processor, BIOS, or RAM usage, how many processes you’re running, or how long it’s been since your last reboot.
WiTS also includes a task manager, a security manager [...]
Backup Your iGoogle Page
Friday, May 9th, 2008
from GoogleSystem at Blogspot.com:
iGoogle (the personalized Google homepage), offers two options to backup your gadgets and feeds at the bottom of the settings page.
There’s an option to backup the iGoogle page on Google’s servers. While this may seem pointless, it’s useful to backup your page before adding gadgets that might create problems.
This is [...]
WordPress 2.5.1 security update
Sunday, April 27th, 2008You’ll notice that this site is now running WP 2.5.1. Automatic released version 2.5.1 of WordPress on April 25, in order to fixe a bunch of performance and interface bugs, and a very important security update. It is highly reccommended that all WordPress 2.5 users update their installations as soon as possible, especially if [...]
AVG 8.0 Freeware released, with protection from spyware
Sunday, April 27th, 2008A few months ago, Grisoft updated its AVG anti-virus suite to version 8 and included linkscanning, anti-spyware, and anti-rootkit software to boot. Now the popular freeware equivalent of Grisoft’s anti-virus application is getting some of the same features.
AVG Free 8 is out, and not only does it protect your system from viruses, but you [...]