A post to track the tools that I find useful or recommended by friends to protect my network from intrusion. PSAD – “psad is a collection of three lightweight system daemons that run on Linux machines and analyze iptables log messages to detect port scans and other suspicious traffic ~psad website“. I get to block IPs that are trying to scan the network for holes. Recommended by friends Sagan – “Sagan is a multi-threaded, real time system and event log

Super Antispyware is one of the utility tools I use for our XP computers at home. From time to time I use this machines for blogging and accessing our cloud servers. I enjoyed using this tool because I use it for free and it’s quite reliable when it comes to checking of spyware. Evilgrade, is a hacking tool that is used for Man In The Middle (MITM) attacks. To prevent the machines at home from being exploited I checked where

Facebook has the largest population on the world wide web and it has a viral effect on distributing data. They have a lot of ways to pass data from one user to the other and one is by tagging pictures. When facebook started this feature it was so hard to tag friends because you need to tag them one by one and its a time consuming way of letting your friends know that they exist in a picture and now

If you want to boost the signal of your wireless linksys router all you need is configure the router.  You can type on the browser 192.168.1.1 which is the default IP address assigned on the router.   After logging in you can go to wireless then click advance settings. Most configuration in this area is based on default configuration, change the following value. Beacon Interval – 50 Fragmentation Threshold – 2304 RTS Threshold – 2304 After setting the values you can

If you are a web developer and having problems on Installing PHP Curl on Apache with PHP installed on Windows Operating System, below is my version of tonyspecer’s “cURL with PHP and Apache on Windows“.  The steps are simple and direct to the point. I have windows apache version 2.2.14 and PHP Version 5.2.10 installed on my Laptop using the installers provided on the respective sites. 1.  Install APACHE and PHP (I installed my APACHE on C:\apache and PHP on

Google has provided web developers foreign language translation api. Web content translation is not a problem anymore, with google’s Google Translate, research from different countries is now made possible. This is a big help especially for researchers on the net, we can now easily understand web contents and even text from outside sources which also serves as a document translation services. Google allows us to copy and paste phrases, sentences and paragraphs from outside sources to their google translate and

If you have problems with those old files and feeling like they are way to big add-ons for your disk then we can have a disk cleanup compress old files software to save resources on your disk.  IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK,