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Asset scanning with nmap and ndiff

If you are in a small business or a larger enterprise you know you need to keep track of all those machines. Sure you could easily tag and record them as they go from the box to the desk, but that doesn’t always happen. And the larger the company the more likely something is able [...]

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Categories: Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Basic

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 21st, 2009
  • Comments: 7

Panda Internet Security 2010 [free]

Seems that some security companies and software developers are going crazy on the launch day of Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 7. Panda Security is the latest security software developer that will be offering one of its products for free on October 22. That’s right; Users who visit the promotion website on that day can [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 15

Kaspersky Asks For Internet Police And Passports

In an interview with Vivian Yeo of Zdnet Asia Eugen Kaspersky stated that he would like to change the design of the Internet after being asked what he would change if he had the power to change three things related to IT security. According to him the biggest problem in IT security these days is [...]

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Categories: Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 11

Remove Fake Antivirus Software Programs

Fake antivirus software programs, also called rogue security software, are programs that seem to be antivirus programs when in fact they are not. They either are disguised viruses, trojans or try to sale another product to the user. Like “normal” trojans rogue security software is often difficulty to remove from a computer system as it [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 10

How To Stop Automatic Plugin Installations In Firefox

Yesterday’s incident (read Microsoft Silently Installing Windows Presentation Foundation Plugin For Firefox for pointers) brought up a question on how the plugin that caused the problems was installed it first place. Mozilla Firefox users with the Microsoft net. Framework 3.5 SP1 had the plugin installed without them accepting the installation of the plugin. This can [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Security, firefox

Five handy secure shell tips and tricks

I use secure shell a LOT, every day. So much so that I often take for granted how important this tool is. Not only does it allow me to log into remote machines to handle management of said machine, it can do other things as well – X tunneling being one of the most useful features. But [...]

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Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Basic

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 17th, 2009
  • Comments: 39

Microsoft Silently Installing Windows Presentation Foundation Plugin For Firefox

If you have recently opened your Firefox web browser you might have noticed a notification from the web browser that the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin was disabled to protect the user and the web browser. Many users who received the message were a bit puzzled as they did not install the plugin in first place. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Microsoft, Security, firefox

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