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Nmap security scanner gets new scripts, performance boosts

Network World

The Nmap Project just released the Holiday Edition of its open source cross-platform security scanner and network mapper, with several important improvements and bug fixes. Give yourself a technology career advantage with InfoWorld's Deep Dive technology reports and Computerworld's career trends reports.

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What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

Dataconomy

and the open-source community. This feature is particularly useful in environments where only HTTP traffic is allowed, such as in a web proxy or firewall. The ability to access and control a computer using any operating system that supports VNC, such as Windows, Linux, macOS, and more.

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Technology Short Take #79

Scott Lowe

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before?

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All You Need to Know About VMI for Mobile Apps

Galido

However, when it comes to end users’ perspective VMI is just another application on their operating system whether it be, iOS, Windows, or Android. They use various methods to host the virtual mobile applications and their data, but in most cases almost every bit of it exists safely beyond the firewall.

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Data Security and its Importance on the Internet

Galido

Hacking and data breaches are a common thing today, especially with the rise of open source platforms and electronic transactions. Enable a firewall and a comprehensive malware removal program like Malwarebytes to detect and keep all types of malware away. Turn on your firewall. trillion globally by 2019.

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Technology Short Take #46

Scott Lowe

I find it enormously helpful to stay connected to various open source-related IRC channels, but staying logged while on the move is, for all intents and purposes, impossible. you’ll need to be sure to unblock WMI in the Windows Firewall. Operating Systems/Applications. Perhaps the use of an IRC proxy can help.

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Technology Short Take #31

Scott Lowe

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. If you’re a real storage geek (or if you’re not but are having trouble sleeping), check out this USENIX presentation on erasure coding in Windows Azure storage. Just getting started in the networking field?

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