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Mr. Gates showed it off on Sunday during his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas. Read more…

The New York Times had some pretty good tips over the weekend for home users in regards to keeping their personal information safe. The tips actually were pretty good, but there was no explanation of why you would want to do each one. So, here go my explanations for the people who are interested: Don’t [...]

Cisco To Buy Private Network-security Start-up IronPort  (RTTNews) – If published reports on Thursday are right, Cisco Systems Inc. is buying network-security start-up IronPort Systems Inc. for about $830 million in cash and stock, to buttress its already robust global network protection business.The acquisition comes at a time when the corporate sector is clamoring for [...]

This really didn’t start out as a mini research project… It started, because I am reading this great book by Syngress called: Penetration Tester’s Open Source Toolkit.  The book is about how to use freely available tools to conduct penetration tests on a network.  It contains tons of valuable information, including source code of a [...]

I got a beta invitation a few days back to beta test the new Windows Live OneCare. OneCare is basically positioning itself to be a single source for all your desktop security needs. Once installed, the program provides Firewall, Virus and Spyware monitoring, Backup and Restore, and Performance Plus (tune up module). This version will [...]

There are plenty of times where you might want to use Dynamips when not connected to a network. Maybe your out on the road and just want to practice some labs. It would be nice to have your laptop network adapter part of the emulated network – even when your laptop is not connected to [...]

Download MinGW-5.0.2 and run the installer From the install type dropdown menu – Select Minimal install In the box under the dropdown, check the g++ compiler and MinGW Make Options Install in the default folder (C:\MinGW) Download MSYS-1.0.10 and run the installer Install in the default folder (C:\msys\1.0) When asked if you want to go [...]

Recently, I had the need to get a Netflow collector up rather quickly. There were a couple of old circuits that we were in the process of replacing on some remote routers and I needed to know what traffic was still going across them. Since most of the traffic was already going across the replacement [...]

I learned of a very unique and amazing program a couple of weeks ago. Ever since my discovery, I have found it very useful in my day to day work. The software I'm speaking of is an emulator, but not your common pc or mac emulator. No, this is not another game platform emulator – [...]

There is a cool open source network related project called NeDi. This application is definitely one of the best discovery tools that I have ever used. NeDi unfolds its full potential with Cisco’s CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) in the core of your network. Features include: Automated Network Discovery Automatically discovers Cisco network devices and learns [...]