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Links I have found to be very helpful or fun.
- Resources for Pan-Platform Computing
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Open BSD
A BSD licensed UNIX variation. I don't know any "real
producers" open or commercial that are more
passionate about security than these people:
"The
OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform
4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. [Their] efforts
emphasize portability, standardization, correctness,
proactive security and integrated cryptography. OpenBSD
supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4
(Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX."
I've done one install of this so far. It went smoothly, and
I plan to do many more in the future.
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Damn Small Linux
A very small Linux that boots directly from CD.
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Knoppix Linux Distribution
Their tag line says it all: From zero to Linux in 5 minuites.
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QEMU - Processor Emulator
As per their About section...
QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which
achieves a good
emulation speed by using dynamic translation. It also has
a full system emulation mode that basically emulates and
as such, virtualizes a full PC.
- Education & Certification
- System & User Support
- Network Management & Troubleshooting
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Kismet - Network Sniffer for a Wireless World
freeware
An easy to use network sniffer capable of separating
wireless use on an IP network. This can spot unauthorized
wireless access points.
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Network Probe (U/LINIX/NT2KXP)
freeware
An easy to use protocol analyzer providing real-time
displays of network traffic.
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Conserver - Last Line of Defense Monitor
freeware
A network monitor that runs through serial consoles. This
means it can run even when the IP network is down. Making
it an invaluable part of any disaster recovery/management
plan.
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SNIPS: System Network Integrated Polling Software
freeware
A network monitor that runs on Unix systems and monitors:
syslogs, RADIUS, BGP, peers, host-performance, DNS, NTP,
TCP, or Web ports. Custom monitors may also be written in
Perl or C.
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Network traffic monitor and grapher (U/LINIX/NT)
freeware
The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor
the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages
containing graphical images which provide a LIVE visual
representation of this traffic. MRTG is written in Perl and C
and works under UNIX/LINUX and Windows NT. MRTG is being
successfully
used on many sites around the net. Some supporting links:
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Cflowd
and
Flowscan (Cisco/Perl)
freeware
Cisco only - Cflowd runs in Cisco's IOS collecting IP
flow information
for Flowscan to analyze and present.
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Tight VNC: Platform-independent
Remote Control Software
freeware
Sometimes things that look too good to be true
are true.
You could plunk down $100 or more to buy
PC-Anywhere or some other Windows only remote control
platform for one viewer and one target, or you can download
this system for free. With this system,
you can view
and control remote
Linux, Sun-SOLARIS, and Windows machines.
You can also view and control
these
machines from your Windows, Linux,
or SOLARIS system.
It's open source (GPL) too!
As a matter of fact,
this is based on
the original VNC code produced by AT&T.
They continue to improve it as well and offer it as a free
download from their site.
(thanks
Mark Gibbs)
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Best News Search Engine (imo)?: Microsoft Network (msn.com)
File this in the "Credit where credit is due" folder.
On Sept. 26, 2006 neither Ask, or Google had a single link to a
freshly declassified
NIE report released a day earlier in America. In contrast, Msn.com had many links
to the paper, stored at a variety of sites. I'm not a
huge Microsoft fan, but this was an impressive display of comparative search
engine superiority.
For the test, the document title was used as the final and most authoritative
search-term. The document was titled:
[PDF] Declassified Key Judgments Of The National Intelligence
Estimate 'Trends In Global Terrorism: Implications For The United States
and was declassified a day earlier (25-Sep-2006) by the U.S. Government. As stated,
neither Ask or Google news services had a single link to it a full day later,
when this test-search was performed.
- Help with Windows & Registry Problems
- Developer Stuff
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A Tutorial On Character Code Issues
This is the greatest wealth of introductory and advanced
informaation we've found on this subject.
Everything you've ever wanted to know about character
codings such as Unicode, ASCII, EBCDIC
utf-8, utf-7, Latin 1, ISO 8859-xx, and more. This resource
even includes links to tables that map between various encodings.
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QuirksMode.org - JavaScript & CSS Reference from PPK
One of the best Web Developer and JavaScript pages around.
It is maintained by freelance web developer extraordinaire
Peter-Paul Koch
In his words the site: contains more than 150 pages
with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is
one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and
defeating browser incompatibilities.
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Cool Computing Timelines
This site provides very detailed timeline diagrams showing
the histories of
Unix/Linux,
programming languages, and
Windows.
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REST (Representational State Transfer)
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Security and vulnerability
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GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
Per their site: GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP.
Because it does not use the patented IDEA algorithm, it can be
used without any restrictions. GnuPG is an
RFC2440
(OpenPGP) compliant application.
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US-CERT
A primary U.S. Government site for all who are interested in
network
security vulnerabilities, incident handling, and reporting.
Includes a way to report incidents. This is operated
by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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CERT/CC
A primary site for all who are interested in network security
vulnerabilities, incident handling, and reporting.
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SANS Internet Storm Center
Analyses and references about software security, as well as
alerts about current problems.
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Semantec's Security Response Center
Current information on known exploits, with links to vendor
alerts, patches, and hotfixes.
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Net Security Website
Analyses include economic losses due to various malware
infestations.
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Hackerwatch
Very nice visualizations of infestations and attacks
can be found on this McAfee sponsored site.
- Government/Compliance/Regulation (U.S.)
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Thomas
U.S. Legislative information on the Internet.
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Judicial Watch (JudicialWatch.org)
established in 1994 to serve as an ethical and legal "watchdog"
over our government, legal, and judicial systems and to promote
a return to ethics and morality in our nation's public life.
- FUD and Stupid Marketing Tricks
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Microsoft funding of security report decried
Two participants in the study
(Richard Ford of the Florida Inst. of Technology and
Herbert Thompson of Security Inovations Inc.)
didn't bother to report that
MicroSoft funded the study when they gave the talk
at RSA Conference.
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Rotten Effort
May 08, 2006 (Computerworld) Some bulls
are determined to break a lot of
china on their way down. How do you avoid the
flying shards? I'd recommend getting as far away as
possible, as quickly as possible. Here's a back
road to one such place:
- Copyright Protection/Anti-Plagiarism
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Internet Infringement Protection
Find plagiarized copies of your content on the Web.
Many people use their creativity to produce useful and unique
contributions. But then there are those who concentrate on
finding clever and destructive ways to take credit for other
people's contributions. This service helps you to find the
latter. :-) You still have to go after them though...
- Misc/Fun
- Script Listing Sites
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