A receive-only sniffer cable can be very useful if you want to sniff out someones network without being detected. Some intrusion detection systems can detect when a client PC is plugged into a network. Using 1-way, receive-only sniffer cable you can be assured your computer won’t be sending any traffic over the network.
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Many of us have accounts all over the Internet; Ebay, Gmail, Yahoo, World of Warcraft, EVE Online and the list goes on. You can take just a few steps in making sure your online accounts don’t get hacked. With your personal information so readily available, hackers can easily hack almost any of your online accounts. [...]
At some point you may find yourself at a company that uses a Microsoft ISA proxy server. ISA is proprietary proxy server created by Microsoft that uses their own methods for authentication, making it difficult to integrate other operating systems. Microsoft decided to make it difficult for people to integrate by not using standard proxy [...]
Many people have asked me “Can you teach me to be a hacker?”. My answer to most people is “You are already a hacker.”. No one can teach anyone how to be a hacker, depending on what category you fit in, you’re probably already defined as one. This is going to be written of [...]
Sometimes when you are at work you may find yourself needing to download a file but can’t due to your corporate firewall or proxy server filters. Many companies block virtually every file type you would probably need to download to do your job. They probably block just about every site to! Most companies block or [...]
Adding a simple ListBox widget in your GTK application is easier than you think. This tutorial will show you how to create ListBox-like functionality in GTK using Glade3. GTK uses the TreeView control as their do-all list control. You can create simple lists, tree-like lists and all sorts of various list views. What is really [...]
Read More »Today I whipped up a simple GTK application using the Anjuta IDE, Glade 3, and the new GtkBuilder system. As some of you know, Glade 3 and GTK changed things up. First Glade stopped using generated code which required you to use libglade. Now the GTK developers created their own interface interpretor called GtkBuilder. [...]
Read More »This code will show you how to search for Windows Services. The ServiceController class handles almost everything service related. You can also check if services are running by checking the service.Status property and you can search for installed services using the sample code below. The services we are talking about are the services that run [...]
Read More »Visual Basic for Linux is here, sort of. In my search for the perfect RAD environment for Linux I came across a project called Gambas. Gambas is a Visual Basic like development environment for Linux which is very much like Microsoft’s drag and drop Visual Basic but it is not a clone. For an Open [...]
Read More »This code snippet will let you force a background color into a PNG file with C#. When working with PNG files in Visual Studio sometimes you’ll run into situations where the background of a PNG shows up as grey or even blue. This is because of the PNG files transparency and Windows can sometimes [...]
Read More »The following code shows you how to build a UDP server in C# using the UUdpClient class for the networking and BackgroundWorker class for reporting data back to the application. This particular UDP server class is designed to be used with a Windows Forms or GUI. When using the UDP server you pass a BackgroundWorker [...]
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