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Network World on VPNs
The latest VPN news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com
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| 08/13/2010 12:00 PM |
| Open source software a frequent flier on Virgin America |
Virgin America's CIO says free and open source software (FOSS) is giving the fast growing airline a competitive edge in providing guest services vs. airlines relying mainly on more expensive and less flexible proprietary programs.
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| 07/28/2010 08:00 AM |
| Massive check-fraud botnet operation tied to Russia |
Check fraud is an old-fashioned kind of crime, but a criminal ring with ties to Russia is using modern cybercrime techniques, including botnets, online databases of financial information and check imaging archives, to run a highly automated, multi-million-dollar counterfeit-check operation.
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| 07/08/2010 12:00 PM |
| Poor SSL set-up can kill e-commerce |
Online merchants are shooting themselves in the foot with faulty SSL deployments that trigger alarms scaring customers away before they have the chance to complete transactions.
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| 06/04/2010 12:00 PM |
| How to Set Up a Virtual Private Network |
If you work on the go fairly often, you've probably hopped on a public wireless network at least once or twice. You should have also figured out how to keep your data safe when you're on such a network, by taking precautions such as using your company's virtual private network--if available--or an encrypted Web tunnel such as Hotspot Shield.
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| 04/19/2010 12:00 PM |
| Equinux releases VPN Tracker 6.2.1 |
Germany-based Equinux has announced the release of version 6.2.1 of its VPN Tracker product, which can now be used to better interoperate with VPN devices from WatchGuard Technologies.
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| 04/15/2010 12:00 PM |
| iPhone OS 4.0 Benefits Road Warriors |
Apple unveiled a variety of features and functions we can look forward to in iPhone OS 4.0--due out this summer for the iPhone, but not until sometime this fall for the iPad. There are updates to the OS that will benefit consumers, as well as those that benefit business professionals and IT administrators--like improving remote telecommuting from the iPhone and iPad platforms.
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| 04/13/2010 12:00 PM |
| How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi |
Picture this: You're at a café with your laptop and latte in hand, getting ready to review new sales leads and the quarterly financial projections. First you hop on the free Wi-Fi that the shop's management provides. Then you connect your laptop to a projector so that the entire café can take a look, and finally you hand out some printed copies of your confidential product specifications to the other patrons so that they can follow along.
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| 04/05/2010 12:00 PM |
| Enterprise cloud put to the test |
Enterprise cloud services or virtual private clouds provide a way for IT execs to gain the benefits of public cloud computing, without sacrificing security or control. In this exclusive test, Network World reviews enterprise cloud services from Terremark, Rackspace and BlueLock. The vendors deliver cloud-based compute resources over a secure link, but the cost could make IT execs think twice.
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| 04/05/2010 12:00 PM |
| How we tested the cloud services |
We used our facility in our hosted network operations center at n|Frame in Indianapolis to connect with each competitor's cloud. We used a Vyatta router/VPN virtual machine appliance to connect with each vendor to test their skills in connecting non-Cisco equipment.
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| 03/08/2010 11:00 AM |
| Microsoft delivers feature-rich SSL-VPN |
We tested Whale Communications' SSL VPN back in 2003 and the product didn't fare very well. Microsoft bought Whale in 2006, jettisoned some of the strange idiosyncracies of the product, dramatically simplified management, and subsequently integrated several Vista and Windows 7 technologies.
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Nsauditor
Network Security Auditor Nsauditor
Network Security Auditor is a network
security scanner that allows
to
audit and monitor network computers for
possible vulnerabilities,
checks your network for all potential methods that a
hacker might use to attack it. Nsauditor is a complete
networking utilities package that includes a wide range
of tools for network auditing, scanning, monitoring
and more. You can discover network services and check
them for vulnerabilities, list all TCP and UDP endpoints
with their associated process, discover NetBios names,
audit MS SQL servers, scan for common Adware traces
and more. The program also includes real-time network
packet filtering and analyzing, web proxy scanning,
password auditing, IP address lookup
and more than 45 network
tools for scanning, sniffing, enumerating and gaining
access to machines, DNS and
WHOIS lookups, e-mail validation, HTTP traffic generator
and intrusion detection based on security events log.
Reports can be generated in HTML and XML format. Overall,
this is a very complete package for a surprisingly low
price.
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SpotAuditor
- Internet Explorer, Outlook and MSN messenger password
recovery
SpotAuditorreveals
passwords saved in Internet Explorer, recovers ICQ,
Trillian, Miranda IM, VNC, Far ftp client, SecureFX
ftp client, FileZilla, WebDrive Ftp, FTP Voyager, AutoFTP,
32bit FTP, FTP Navigator, Dial-up, RAS, VPN, Outlook,
MSN messenger, Windows Live Messenger 8 and Windows
Messenger passwords, IE Auto Complete Fields and recovers
passwords stored behind the asterisks in password text-boxes.
It is a program for viewing and cleaning the secret
data stored by Internet Explorer. SpotAuditor allows
deletion of unwanted entries from the system protected
storage and explores Outlook Accounts, Visited URLs,
Installed Programs and Start Run Programs on a local
machine or remote computers. SpotAuditor allows to clear
Internet Explorer history, delete cookies and temporary
internet files. You can recover and restore any lost
or forgotten password ever entered in Internet Explorer.SpotAuditor
instantly cracks and decrypts passwords stored on your
computer!
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NetShareWatcher
- Monitors Network Shares and Identify Shares which
are
Violating Data Access Policy
It allows network administrators
to monitor
network shares and identify
shares which are violating data
access policy in their organization.
NetShareWatcher is very handy. You
can configure it once and forget about network sharing
problems. You need just select restricted groups or
users and every time when NetShareWatcher
will find network share with access list containing
that restricted groups and will perform an configured
action. It allows you to easily monitor
network shared folders and
permissions. NetShareWatcher alerts anytime an user
sets a share ACL to "Everyone" or some other
global group that violates your data access policy as
well as disable this shared folders automatically if
you have selected appropriate feature in the settings.
NetShareWatcher has user friendly interface and is easy
to use. Being configured once, it will regularly notify
you on network sharing detection with restricted permissions
assigned.
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BlueAuditor - detecting and monitoring Bluetooth devices in a wireless network
BlueAuditor
is a wireless
personal area network auditor
and easy-to-use program for detecting
and monitoring Bluetooth devices in
a wireless network. It can discover and track any Bluetooth
device within a distance between 1 and 100 meters and
display key information about each device being detected
as well as the services device provided. With the growing
popularity of the Bluetooth
technology,BlueAuditor
will enable network administrators to effectively
audit their wireless networks against security vulnerabilities
associated with the use of Bluetooth devices. BlueAuditor
enables the user to save the data of the detected Bluetooth
devices in an .xml file and supports the most Microsoft
Bluetooth drivers available on the market. All the mentioned
features are provided with a user friendly graphical
interface
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RemShutdown - allows Shutdown or Restart Network Computers Remotely
RemShutdown
allows shutdown
or restart network computers remotely. You
can specify a delay during which a message you specify
can be displayed and applications running on the remote
computer at the time of shutdown can be allowed to close.
In addition, RemShutdown offers the user the option
to cancel the shutdown. The tool is designed with a
user-friendly interface and is easy to use.
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Product Key
Explorer |
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Product
Key Explorer displays product key for Windows, MS Office,
SQL Server and more than 500 popular software products
installed on your local or remote network computers.
In order to install or reinstall Microsoft Office, Windows,
or other commercial software, you must have access to
a product serial key (CD Key) for that product. Product
Key Explorer retrieves serial keys from network computers
and allows to protect your company from having pirated
software on your network. With this software you will
be able to track the number of software licenses installed
in your business, find and recover a lost or forgotten
product keys, save and keep an up-to-date backup of
all your software license keys in a central location.
Excellent tool for network administrators, or businesses
undergoing a software license compliancy. You can save
product keys as Tab Delimited Txt File (.txt), Excel
Workbook (.xls), CSV Comma Delimited (.csv), Access
Database (.mdb), Web Page (.html) or XML Data (.xml)
file, Print or Copy to Clipboard.
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NetworkSleuth - Network
File Search Utility
NetworkSleuth
is a fast file search tool, that allows search for files
located on local or network computers and supports searches
for documents, image, MP3, music and video files, allows
to search for files in Local Area Network(LAN) based
on various criteria.
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