If you have never heard about Carrier IQ before you can rest assured that you are not the only one. Security researcher Trevor Eckhart published a research paper on Carrier IQ, a software that he discovered running on his HTC Android device, in mid November. Lets start at the beginning, and with a simple question: [...]

Categories: Mobiles, Security

If you’d have to analyze a normal work day on your computer, how would it look like? What are the common applications that you open? Which website do you spend the most time on? It can be quite difficulty to calculate those numbers manually, and it is likely that you may be way off. That’s [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Is my website up or down, is it responsive or is it taking to long to load? Those are questions that every webmaster needs to ask from time to time. The best way to find out is to use monitoring tools that connect to the website, server, domain or IP address regularly. You find lots [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Linux is resplendent with administration tools. No matter what you need to monitor, Linux has a tool to suit your needs. You can monitor everything from file I/O, to network processes, and everything in between. You can test systems, check systems, start and stop systems…you name it. There are so many tools it’s hard to [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Webmasters need to make sure that their websites are up and accessible to site visitors and search engine bots. Downtime can have different impacts from negative perceptions of website visitors to being kicked out of search engines for not being accessible. There are three options on how to stay informed about downtimes. The first two [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Professional webmasters and system administrators have to make sure that their web servers, websites and services are monitored constantly to be able to react immediately if one of the systems or services fails. But it is not always the professional users who needs those tools. Basically any user who runs a website or server should [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The Big Brother State is a short educational film created at the German university of Augsburg which tries to provide a different view of certain laws that are supposed to protect our freedom for the sake of our rights and privacy. Do we really need more observation at public places, trusted computing, biometric passports and network traffic monitoring. Who is able to tell that that no misuse will ever happen with the collected data ?

Categories: Knowledge, Security, The Web