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Android remote systems administration tools
Cura is a mobile phone application bundle of remote systems administration tools. It provides a personalized terminal emulator, a syslog module that allows for reading logs …
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools
Proprietary digital forensics tools have long been popular with the majority of forensic practitioners, but there are also open source ones that can come very handy. The book …
Anonymous to set up secure Pastebin alternative
Following Pastebin.com owner’s announcement of his intention of speeding up takedown of sensitive information and his willingness to share the posters’ IP …
NAC system PacketFence 3.3.0 released
PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, free and open source network access control (NAC) system. Boasting a feature set including a captive-portal for registration and …
Linux Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition
If you use Linux in your day-to-day work, this popular pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job reference. The second edition has expanded from Fedora-only coverage to …
OmniOS: Open source OS for the Solaris community
OmniTI announced OmniOS, an open source operating system for application developers in the Solaris community looking for data-intensive application deployment. OmniOS is a …
Penetration testing tips, tricks and unusual situations
Raul Siles is a senior security analyst with more than 10 years of expertise performing advanced security services. He is a SANS Institute author and instructor of penetration …
Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide
Metasploit Framework (MF), the open source tool for launching exploits against remote machines, is a well-loved instrument that allows penetration testers to automate routine …
Widespread use of vulnerable open source components
Sonatype and Aspect Security collaborated on a study of the real-world use of vulnerable versions of open source libraries. Used by developers around the world, open source …
Open source audit plug-in for MySQL
McAfee announced a free open source audit plug-in for MySQL database users to capture complete detailed activity audits from their databases. The plug-in was created and …
Programmer hacks GitHub to prove a point
Russian programmer Egor Homakov has recently chosen a questionable tactic to prove the danger that a Ruby on Rails public key form update vulnerability poses to systems based …
NAC system PacketFence 3.2.0 released
PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, free and open source network access control (NAC) system. This is a major release with new features, new hardware support, …