Monthly Archives: January 2012

Find the best price on PC Parts

Want to find the best price on your next computer upgrade or build?  Use PCPartPicker.com.  PCPartPicker looks over hundreds of sites and allows you to filter to exactly the part you need.   Thanks Robert!

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Hackers attack U.S. railways | Homeland Security News Wire

  Last month hackers took control of passenger rail lines in the Northwest, disrupting signals twice and creating delays Hackers attack U.S. railways | Homeland Security News Wire.  (Shared with share button on author’s site)

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First responders could be zipping through skies within two years | Homeland Security News Wire

    Glenn Martin, the inventor of the Martin Jetpack, the world’s first commercially available jetpack, recently spoke with Homeland Security NewsWire’s executive editor Eugene K. Chow; in their interview Martin discusses the technical challenges of developing a viable jetpack, … Continue reading

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If you monitor your firewall or have a computer connected to your computer (you can use netstat -a at a command prompt and see IP addresses that may be connected to your computer),…

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Annually our class studies wireless technology and its implementation into homes and industry.   Surveys are conducted to analyze security used, transmit power and geographic location of wireless technology. According to Wigle.net, Security…

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You may have devices (NASs) on your network that you can no longer can connect to or you may not be able to network to an older OS.  Actually this changes settings to…

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Note:  When logging into router commander you must enabled telnet on the router and although you login in as administrator or admin in the webgui, you may need to log in as root…

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There is truly an advantage to adding multiple NIC cards to a computer.   It won’t speed up a single internet connection but it can help with loss of signal, detecting access points, transferring…

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-Steve Mallard From Spiceworks.com You want network management software that works for you, not software that makes you work. You wish you could have it… without spending a fortune. Your wish is granted.…

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-Steve Mallard Mohammad Ahmadi Bidakhvidi (http://www.mabsoft.com/) came up with a program that is one immense tool with a wide selection of network tools and what can be considered “hacking” tools included in it. The scary thing is there…

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Great Freeware scanner that is free.  Link From Radmin: Advanced IP Scanner is a fast, robust and easy-to-use IP scanner for Windows. It easily lets you have various types of information about local…

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How to make Look@LAN portable for your flashdrive. Download the Look@LAN Installer Program Run the installer file you downloaded. If you accidently install it to the C: drive,  copy the Look@LAN directory from…

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Videos This application may certainly make security and technology come together – appropriately named, Untangle is certainly worth looking at. Shared via AddThis

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A lot of discussion is always heard when ‘we’ talking about our tweaks for networking. We have found with several networks and not just our own that disabling LLMNR (Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution)…

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If you have slow or non responsive program properties; such as a database or other network program…Right Click on My Computer, go to Properties, select Hardware, Device Manager, click the + sign on…

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I didn’t change them, they changed me

Often I have students come back and tell me how I helped change their life.   Maybe it is modesty but I don’t truly take credit for their changes.   It truly was the student who decided that they would … Continue reading

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Need more storage in the cloud? Use CX.com and get 10gb for free

Over the last several weeks we have talked about cloud computing, CloudU’s free certification and space in the cloud that consumers can get for free.   Rick over at What’s On My PC has an excellent article on CX.com over … Continue reading

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How dependable is your Cloud Provider?

Want to see how dependable your Cloud Provider is?  Check the latency, up time and more at CloudSleuth.   Want to know more about Cloud Computing? Here’s a free online course and certification from RackSpace. Ever wonder what cloud computing … Continue reading

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Create your own NAS for free

FreeNAS is an excellent software you can use as embedded, LiveCD or in VirtualBox or with VMWare’s VMPlayer.   So that students can understand how NAS (Network Area Storage) works, we have several NAS devices that are local and can … Continue reading

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‘Anonymous’ Back With A Vengeance: Downs DoJ, MPAA, RIAA, Universal Music Websites – Dark Reading

In apparent retaliation for the federal takedown of online storage and file transfer site Megaupload announced by the Department of Justice today, the Anonymous hacktivist collective went to work waging mass distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked offline the websites … Continue reading

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