Cisco announced on Thursday Network Magic 5.0, a suite of network management software. This is is the first product released by Cisco since its acquisition of Pure Networks earlier this year. [via webware]

- Monitor computer and online activity
- Centralized network management interface
- Control Internet access
- ...

Network Magic comes in two commercial versions.
After 7 days, if you don't choose to purchase Network Magic Pro or Essentials, you can still continue to use Network Magic Free Version.

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Labels: communication, networking, security, software, utilities

All of the Google Data APIs support OAuth - an open standard for authentication

Last night the Google Data API blog announced that oAuth is now available for all Google Data APIs, everything from Gmail contacts to Google Calendar to Docs to YouTube. This means that 3rd party app developers now have one easy, standardized and secure way to authenticate that their users really own the Google accounts they say they do

oAuth
Google Data APIs

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Labels: api, cloud_computing, collaboration, development, google, mashup, opensocial, security, web_2.0, web_apps

FirewallScript, PHP based configurable firewall script, can be installed by any user on a server, even under a shared hosting plan. All users can install or modify their security settings at will, and FirewallScript offers ‘Rule Packs’ which are pre-configured for certain web apps like WordPress and vBulletin. [read on]

http://firewallscript.com

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Labels: opensource, security, social_software, software, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Yep, there are many free recovery tools actually, but i want to have a look at Recuva.
Recuva is another tool from Piriform and is able to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer.

its very fast to run and can be run from a USB thumb drive, for example. it restores all types of files, office documents, images, video, music, email, anything. supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems

Download today Recuva from FileHippo.com

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Labels: microsoft, security, social_software, software, utilities

According to InspectMyGadget, mRemote is a free 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP) open source software licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL), which allows you to manage multiple remote connections of different remote protocols like RDP, VNC, SSH2, Telnet, RAW, Rlogin, ICA and HTTP/S.



sourceforge project mRemote

Also have a look at Terminals v1.6 and my preferred command prompt Console.

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Labels: communication, microsoft, networking, opensource, security, social_software, software, utilities

CanSecWest's PWN 2 OWN contest was won in 2 minutes. Mac gets hacked.

Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook as prizes, saying that they could be won by anybody at the show who could find a way to hack into each of them and read the contents of a file on the system using a previously undisclosed "0day" attack.

Charlie Miller, best known as one of the researchers who first hacked Apple's iPhone last year, didn't take much time. Within 2 minutes, he directed the contest's organizers to visit a Web site that contained his exploit code, which then allowed him to seize control of the computer, as about 20 onlookers cheered him on.

read on

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Labels: electronic, gadgets, iphone, networking, security

From uneasysilence: To make ad blocking simpler use OpenDNS to block ads on the DNS level:

To make this hack work you must configure your router to use OpenDNS’s servers (trust me you will want to do this anyway - their servers are FAST!) by following the OpenDNS tutorials. Secondly you must signup for a free OpenDNS account so you can setup network filters.

Video tutorial about How to Speed up Your Internet Instantly with OpenDNS

Check out also A Mashable Guide to Faster Web Surfing

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Labels: networking, opendns, opensource, security, social_software, software, web_2.0, web_apps

If you covet your RAM like Gollum coveted the ring, then Instant Memory Cleaner should be one of the tools in your toolbox.

http://www.vasileios.gr/freesoft/inst_mem_clean.htm

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Labels: security, social_software, software, utilities

Our friends on the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo brings over 1,600 open source and database enthusiasts together to harness the power of MySQL and celebrate the huge MySQL ecosystem.

http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008/public/content/home
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/

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Labels: collaboration, security, social_software, software, web_2.0, web_apps

Using open source tools for grid applications
image by NealBohling

IBM's latest developerWorks article is about creating a very rapid development process using open source tools for grid applications, taking advantage of scripting languages like Perl or Python and deployment environments like Apache. It also covers using Project Zero and PHP to build a simple web application.

Developing a grid application with open source tools

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Labels: development, opensource, security, social_software, software, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Hey, John, great listing of storage apis to offer an online storage service, amazing...most of the service offer free and 'pro' level consumer accounts as well as a developer API. read more




His candidates are:

Adobe Share Amazon S3 Box.net Cellblock MoveDigital Nirvanix Omnidrive Open XDrive Openomy

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Labels: adobe, networking, security, sharing, social_software, software, web_2.0, web_apps

German police are unable to decipher the encryption used in the internet telephone software Skype to monitor calls by suspected criminals and terrorists, Germany's top police officer, Joerg Ziercke, said. "The encryption with Skype telephone software ... creates grave difficulties for us... We can't decipher it. That's why we're talking about source telecommunication surveillance — that is, getting to the source before encryption or after it's been decrypted.

slashdot.org

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Labels: networking, security, social_software, software

Myspace contains amazing scope of data. Attacks/ Exploits on MySpace seem to be on the rise!

How wiki define exploit attacks:

An exploit is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic (usually computerized). This frequently includes such things as gaining control of a computer system or allowing privilege escalation or a denial of service attack.

At the end of October, there were a number of links added as friend-comments that went via MySpace's open-redirector (MSPlinks) to exploit sites in China.

Now, we keep finding MySpace pages that have had some sort of image-background link injected, that are reaching out to a different site in China that is both throwing exploits and using social engineering to install rootkits and (probably) dns-changers....., so Roger Thompson explains it on his blog.

Exploits can be categorized by the type vulnerability they exploit or the method of exploitation. Some of the common types of exploits, or "attacks", are:
* Buffer overflow
* Heap overflow
* Stack buffer overflow
* Integer overflow
* Return-to-libc attack
* Format string attack
* Race condition
* Code injection
* SQL injection
* Cross-site scripting
* Cross-site request forgery

Exploit (computer security) on wikipedia.org

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Next to Passpack, which lets you click on a box to prove you are not a bot, there is an other way to prevent you page of spam.

we hope spambots can't drag and drop!!!!

The drop comment solution uses jQuery and its drag and drop support to require that you move your comment over to the drop zone before the comment is saved.

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Labels: ajax, security, social_software, software, web_2.0, web_apps

PhishTank is a website where users submit URLs of phishing scams, which are then verified by other members. The sites which are verified as phishing sites then get blocked by OpenDNS and any other software which choose to use the PhishTank API.

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Labels: security, web_2.0, web_apps