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- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United KingdomDatabasesSince you're paying attention... look at bills, proclamations, edicts, etc. in other parts of the world including the USA.The senate just passed a sweeping communications bill that has the same effect as the UK's "proposal". Seems that the G8 or some other organization...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- BlueMiner (exe)
- BlueMiner is a Bluetooth Marketing software that permit to realize an advertise or informative campaign with the possibility of sending multimedia file (videoclip, audio, pictures, games, vCard, VCalendar, or whatever a bluetooth device can receive) via a one-to-one interactive connection to nearby Bluetooth devices, storing all data about devices contacted...
- Software downloads 2008-07-14
- How to: Using TrueCrypt 6 to hide an operating system
- How to: Using TrueCrypt 6 to hide an operating systemThose who need itUnfortunately, those who carry sensitive information about the rest of us government and corporate types are unlikely to use something like this, IMHO.Isn't TrueCrypt vulnerable to the "secret room" problem?Wouldn't the presence of the sooper-seekrit inner volume be...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Hardcore math at the speed of the Net
- From its inception, the Internet has been about connecting researchers and research institutions to each other (and, of course, about national defense). As the Web continues to explode, though, it's interesting to see how new generations of researchers work, collaborate, and criticize online. A particular example...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Tiller Beauchamp on the Recon 2008 conference
- Guest Editorial by Tiller Beauchamp Earlier this month I had the opportunity to present RE:Trace at the Recon conference, a reverse engineering conference held every other year in Montreal, Canada. The conference consisted of three days of training and three days of talks in a single track. Topics...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Visual IP Trace 2008 (exe)
- Visual IP Trace helps identify hackers, validate websites, and investigate IP addresses. Trace analysis reports provide detailed information including the estimated physical location, network provider and worldwide whois information. The analysis reports enable users to verify a website prior to submitting confidential information, trace a hacker or suspect to their...
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- Kommaker (zip)
- Kommaker or "Komrade-Maker" is an easy application which let you create your own ScreenMates. You can create your ScreenMate by using an easy wizard which guides you through the entire creation process. Above all, Kommaker is totally freeware. Three points of interest to choose Kommaker: 1- totally freeware 2- ScreenMates...
- Software downloads 2008-07-01
- Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters away
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL researchers have developed a super-sensitive explosives detector which uses a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound. Interestingly, the technique they've used is based on earlier works of Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1880s. In their experiments, the researchers used three...
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Motorola Rokr E8 - black
- We're always pleased when a cell phone for which we've waited a long time to see finally goes on sale. When Motorola introduced its Rokr E8 at CES 2008, we only had a few minutes to play with it, but we were so impressed that we gave it CNET's Best...
- Product reviews 2008-06-26
- Lifehacker are gods: the ideal student solutions
- As you can imagine with universities breaking up for the summer, it's been a slow news week. I subscribe to Lifehacker on my list of favourites (as well as many others as you'd imagine) because it has some mindblowingly good tricks, tips and technology news. I would like to show...
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- WinTraceRoute (exe)
- This tool is designed to display the route that network packets take when travelling across global IP network. Excellent utility for network troubleshooting, this software incorporates the functionality of well known tracert and traceroute command line utilities and presents the output using a Windows based interface. You may print the...
- Software downloads 2008-06-25
- Old DEC code open sourced by HP
- Old DEC code open sourced by HPMove on... why botherWow, and if IBM open sources OS/2, we'd have two museum pieces to admire. AdvFS was DOA five years ago, the last thing we need is another retrieval from the grave.DEC started search enginesFew people remember that DEC started search engines....
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- China says it's incapable of hacking Reps' computers
- China says it's incapable of hacking Reps' computersYeah, right..."We're incapable of it." And I'm Mae West. Why don't you come up and see me sometime. It'd be one thing to deny the action. But to go so far as to deny they even have the capability...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- xSQL Profiler (msi)
- xSQL Profiler is an easy to install, easy to use, agent-less SQL Server monitoring tool that can be utilized for performance, auditing and compliance related tasks. Monitor multiple SQL Servers from one central location - choose SQL Servers and databases you want to monitor, define precise traces to trace exactly...
- Software downloads 2008-06-12
- VcSmith (rar)
- VcSmith Visual Code Smith is shareware version of VcTester which is a white-box test tool for C source codes to facilitate the use of Visual Studio C/C++ (VC6, VC7 or VC8). VcSmith is shareware without any functional limitation, You can obtain, using and spread it freely. It offers three major...
- Software downloads 2008-06-10
- Monitoring our immune system
- You might be surprised to learn that there are no clinical tools to track the human immune system today. This might change soon. UCLA researchers have developed a new PET scanning probe that will allow monitoring of our immune system. The scientists have used one of the most commonly used...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- eMailTrackerPro 2008 (exe)
- eMailTrackerPro 2008 helps identify the true source of e-mails to help track suspects, verify the sender of a message, trace and report e-mail abusers. The trace analysis reports the sender's IP address, estimated location, network and domain information, and any attempts. Automated abuse reporting enables quick reporting of spammers, scammers...
- Software downloads 2008-06-03
- Free Sysinternals Windows utilities now available online, 24/7
- If you troubleshoot Windows PCs for fun or profit, then chances are you've used one or more tools from Sysinternals. Microsoft bought the company and its amazing library of diagnostic, troubleshooting, and management utilities in 2006, and the collection has been continually updated ever since. It's also still completely free. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Adobe Flash drive-by attacks redux
- Adobe has finally issued an almost-definitive statement on the reports of a zero-day attack targeting its flagship Flash Player, suggesting kinda that the vulnerability is already patched. In a progress report posted to the official Adobe PSIRT blog, David Lenoe stops short of making definitive statements on...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Scam calls... something we've forgot about?
- Scam calls... something we've forgot about?Pretty sure they can...but why would they? Less money for the phone company, more cost. Until our government makes stronger, more punishing laws around this, nothing will happen.-NateRE: Scam calls... something we've forgot about?Why can't the phone companies trace these calls and shut...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
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