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Software Technical

ET P2P Torrent Client User-Agent (Solid Core/0.82)

I have been seeing this alert “ET P2P Torrent Client User-Agent (Solid Core/0.82)” on networks for sometime now and was able to narrow it down to being related to Adobe Flash (Firefox and Chrome). I am not sure why Adobe is using a torrent client in its flash but this seems to be the source. This […]

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How-To Software Technical

Some Basic Use of Nmap

Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. I along with many other systems and network administrators also find it to be a useful tool for the right job. Nmap can be installed and used in Windows, and mostly common in Linux distributions such as Debian and the […]

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How-To Personal Technical

dump packets with tcpdump

How many times did you forget the parameters.  I have, countless time. Lets see if my sharing here I will remember some of my favorite commands # tcpdump -nnXSs 0 ‘port 5060’ Command switches (what they are for) “-nn” plays nice by not looking up hostnames in DNS or service names. “-X” makes it print each packet in hex […]

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News Software

Facebook Video Calling (Powered by Skype)

With a simple and straightforward method of using, Facebook video calling is simply awesome. To get up and going with using the video feature you first need to install a plugin (http://www.facebook.com/videocalling) and from that point on you have what is necessary to use this new feature.   Making a video call is easy. Look […]

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News

Update On PlayStation Network: Hacked

It’s been about 4 days that the PlayStation Network has been down.  Sony official admits that its been three days; Whatever!   Last night our friends at Sony admitted to being hacked which is why they chose to take-down the PlayStation Network along with other services. To Quote what was written on PlayStation blog: Posted […]

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News

PlayStation Network Down (Again)

It would seem once again Sony’s PlayStation Network is down again. After trying many of the online tips and even going as far as to boot my router (problem is so not my router) this issue persists. It seems that Sony has responded to the issue and acknowledges there are ongoing problems, but offer not […]