My Boss recently gave this to me as a present when he came here in the philippines Last July. Well what can i say this is one heck of a present. As a Linux System Admin i have access to lots of protected websites and servers so i keep it securely on this device. What is good about this device is it also runs on Linux provided you are using the newest Linux Kernel.

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Bruce Perens creator of the Open Source Definition and the founder of OSI (Open Source Initiative), sets his view on the surprising decision of Microsoft to support a major open source and one of the biggest competitor of their IIS server, The Apache Web Server. Microsoft joined the Apache Project as a platinum sponsor and pledge a $100,00 a year to support the project.

Does Microsoft already given up the fight? Or are they up for something?

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Dell is planning to introduce a low-cost notebook in August to join the low-cost notebook market. According to Thomas Ricker of engadget this mini inspiron would be a eee pc killer. Read Story …

The Top Philippine Websites is a ranking of websites related to the Philippines based on Alexa’s traffic ranking, a site owned by Amazon.com. The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa users worldwide.

Im so happy that my site is one of the Top 500 Philippine Websites and is currently rank at 251. I would just to take this opportunity to give to thanks to all of you out there who frequently visited my site. Thank you all.

If you read the Top 10 Network Security Tools (Part 1). Here is the continuation.

6. Hping2 - A network probing utility like ping on steroids. This handy little utility assembles and sends custom ICMP, UDP, or TCP packets and then displays any replies. It was inspired by the ping command, but offers far more control over the probes sent.

7. Kismet - A powerful wireless sniffer. Kismet is an console (ncurses) based 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It identifies networks by passively sniffing (as opposed to more active tools such as NetStumbler), and can even decloak hidden (non-beaconing) networks if they are in use. It can automatically detect network IP blocks by sniffing TCP, UDP, ARP, and DHCP packets, log traffic in Wireshark/TCPDump compatible format, and even plot detected networks and estimated ranges on downloaded maps. As you might expect, this tool is commonly used for wardriving.

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