Posted by admin on 3rd June 2009
IPplan is a free opensource IP Address management application. IPPlan is a web based IP address management software and tracking tool simplifying the administration of your IP address space. IPplan goes beyond IP address management including DNS administration, configuration file management, circuit management and storing of hardware information. IPplan can handle a single network or cater for multiple networks and customers with overlapping address space. Makes managing ip addresses and managing ip address space simple and easy.
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Posted by admin on 26th May 2009
When you visit a Secure website in Firefox chances are that the FavIcon for the website is replaced with a Green bar with the details of the company. This is because of the default properties in Firefox to display detailed information of the website from the Extended Validation Certificate on the website. However, if the website doesn’t host a Extended Validation certificate then the website URL (link) in the address bar is not highlighted or in otherwords shows as a normal website URL.
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Posted by admin on 22nd May 2009
When you click on a XPI file (install button in Firefox addon page for an extension) to install to install a Firefox extension, you would see a counter counting down from 3 to 0 before letting you to install. This is one of the most annoying settings in Firefox that I have ever come across.
This was delibrately done to avoid known security issues explained in detail here.
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Posted by admin on 3rd October 2008
VoIP Hopper is a free opensource security tool for Linux/Unix that rapidly runs a VLAN Hop into the Voice VLAN on specific Ethernet switches. VoIP Hopper mimicks the behavior of an IP Phone, in both Cisco and Avaya IP Phone environments to hope into the Voice VLAN. VoIP Hopper is both a VLAN Hop test tool and a tool to test VoIP infrastructure security.
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Posted by admin on 8th September 2008
Sudo which is su “do” allows a system administrator to delegate authority to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while providing an audit trail of the commands and their arguments.sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file. The real and effective uid and gid are set to match those of the target user as specified in the passwd file and the group vector is initialized based on the group file.
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